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Originally Posted by Livia (Post 5936923)

I believe in people's right to protest, but I'm not sure it ever achieves anything.

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Originally Posted by Omah (Post 5936957)

You didn't get the right to vote just because those with wealth and power thought the masses should join their club ..... :nono:

As many as 15 "protesters" were killed and 700 injured at Peterloo, where a crowd of 60,000–80,000 (including many women) had gathered to demand the reform of parliamentary representation, by the sabre, bayonet, ball and hoof of the Manchester and Salford Yeomanry ..... :sad:

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Originally Posted by Livia (Post 5937062)

I don't know what this post has to do with anything I said, and I didn't need the history lesson.

Obviously you do, if you're "not sure it (protesting) ever achieves anything" ..... :pipe:

If it weren't for the "protests" of people who were victims of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre or who took part in the Trafalgar Square/Hyde Park demonstrations of 1866-1867 or the hunger strikes of imprisoned suffragettes you wouldn't be enfranchised or perhaps even alive today - this would be a different world ..... :hmph:

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Originally Posted by GypsyGoth (Post 5936455)

I got myself new Nikes and a hd tv during the riots :pipe:

-snitches-

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Originally Posted by Livia (Post 5937066)

I get the feeling this was aimed at me, but without any kind of comment, it's hard to say.

It's just information, not aimed at anyone in particular really.
I will add a comment if you like?

It was really the contribution of women during wwi that clinched the decision to give them the vote, even a lot of female suffrage activists at the time disapproved of the militancy of the suffragettes. Its also a bit of a fallacy really that violent protest is the only way to change anything, historically peaceful protest has been far more successful

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Originally Posted by MTVN (Post 5937203)

Of course, the history of enfranchisement is long and complex but one has to differentiate between the giants and those who stand on their shoulders.

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Its also a bit of a fallacy really that violent protest is the only way to change anything, historically peaceful protest has been far more successful

OTOH :

Its also a bit of a fallacy really that peaceful protest is the only way to change anything, historically violent protest has been far more successful

;)