{"id":1783,"date":"2003-11-19T09:22:56","date_gmt":"2003-11-19T16:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/11\/suppose-they-gave-a-protest-and-nobody-came\/"},"modified":"2003-11-19T09:22:56","modified_gmt":"2003-11-19T16:22:56","slug":"suppose-they-gave-a-protest-and-nobody-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/19\/suppose-they-gave-a-protest-and-nobody-came\/","title":{"rendered":"Suppose they gave a protest and nobody came"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tAccording to The Guardian,<\/a> Brits have better things to do than protest Bush:<\/p>\n

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Peace campaigners dressed as the US president and the Queen in a horse-drawn carriage headed the procession, which also included a pink “love tank” and demonstrators dressed as weapons inspectors and Guantanamo Bay detainees. <\/p>\n

Around 200 protesters gathered at Jubilee Gardens on London’s South Bank for the parade, which was due to finish at Trafalgar Square. <\/p>\n

Some campaigners expressed disappointment at the modest turnout but Aiden Hutton from Suffolk, who played the role of George Bush, said: “There have been about 14,000 police, I think that’s a wonderful turnout.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some scheduled protests didn’t even happen, according to this from Iain Murray’s source<\/a> on the ground:<\/p>\n

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The tannoy said there may or may not be a peaceful demo at Victoria Station at 3pm. It’s now 3.45. Heard nowt.<\/p>\n

I tell you, civil disobedience isn’t what it was…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Suppose they gave a protest and nobody came.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to The Guardian, Brits have better things to do than protest Bush: Peace campaigners dressed as the US president and the Queen in a horse-drawn carriage headed the procession, which also included a pink “love tank” and demonstrators dressed as weapons inspectors and Guantanamo Bay detainees. Around 200 protesters gathered at Jubilee Gardens on … Continue reading “Suppose they gave a protest and nobody came”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-sL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}