Sickening attack on free speech, Veitch's arrest caught on camera

Think about it......

Keeping people like Veitch et al away for one day is hardly a sickening attack on free speech.. its just removing unwanted elements for a single day when the worlds eyes are on us so we look like a patriotic and stable nation. He and everyone else is free to protest on the other 364 days of the year which is 364 days more than people living in far more oppressive countries get.

Im not supporting the wedding or Veitch and his zeitgeist hippy crew but im just saying.. when you look at the whole scenario from a neutral perspective it make sense and, unless those who were 'arrested' were detained for an unfair amount of time, then i see no real issue here.

What happened to : 'I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it'?

people realised it was a **** over-peddled quote that twelve year olds like to spuriously quote

That's completely legal, try again.

And perhaps they'll be nice to the person whose head they'll put a bullet through.

So you don't believe in free speech?

Or do you only believe in it, when you happen agree with what’s being said?

You back Westbro Baptist picketing soldier's funerals? Right on.

It’s a tough one. There is a fine line between expressing a subjective opinion and causing psychological harm. I’m for freedom of speech, but I don’t think we should let bullies use verbal abuse to harm someone. I would possibly make an exception to freedom of speech in this case if there is evidence of psychological harm.

In the case of the royal wedding no such claim can be reasonably made. It’s simply 'we don’t want our country to look bad’. Which is a point of view no more right than wanting to protest.

Freedom of speach of everyone - unless we want to look good.

What happened to : 'I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it'?

Why is it ok to limit freedom of speech when you feel like but none when others want it to be? What makes your limits any better than theirs?

Well, putting aside the fact that blunt and primitive philosophy can be used to justify anything..we need to remove the blanket and look at the facts...

fact 1 - The WHOLE WORLD was watching the Royal Wedding... this wasn't going to be a platform where protestors were allowed to demonstrate.. the fact that media from all corners of the globe attended meant the whole country needed put across a certain image.. now this could be to reinforce our nation as a tourist hotspot, to portray a country that is patriotic, proud and strong or some other quite valid reason to make sure no one who could disrupt the event could do so as it would become the focus of the event for the media..

'Royal Wedding ruined by crusty hippy chained to the palace, British police fail to secure event, The Queen forced to enter Buckingham Palace through the tour entrance'

Our nation could of been embarrassed which no one really wants even if you hate the Royals.

fact 2 - If the common voice was '**** the monarchy' it would take a hell of a lot more effort than detaining a few ringleaders of republican supporters trying to demonstrate or **** the establishment hippy sorts or any other group that could disrupt this ceremony. The tv ratings would of been minimal, bunting sales would be down and no one would care which would be protest enough.

You can say 'free speech only when it suits you' and i agree with your base point but at the end of the day... aside from this being ONE whole day they were not allowed to protest on regardless of its importance, they are a minority so they cannot complain when the majority put them in their place for ONE day.. they didn't cry on any other days except when they egg on policemen to attempt to detain them only to talk their way out of it..... wooo social justice!

If the world didn't care about the Royal Wedding then they wouldn't have watched it. They did, so they did.

Im not going to get started on the sort of hypocritical morons who think that taking to the streets calling people 'sheeple' and crying 'dont assault me' when an officer touches them are anything other than deluded social waste adding a terrible image to anything alternative to the system we have now including the douche here who got arrested for being a cockey knowitall prick walking around telling people why they are ****.

I agree with what these people envision but the dont have a clue how to change anything! and even if the world was the way they wanted it to be they would still march around trying to find some excuse to be above the 'peasants' with facts they stole off someone who actually tried to do something about the world.. mostly Peter Joseph and the Venus Project.

If you want a positive social change, what you do is go outside and find ways to help, find things to change and promote ideas you think are valid...What you dont do is sing 'we all live in a facist regime' to the tune of yellow submarine in the middle of a park getting stoned because your just being a selfish, elitist and hypocritical moron.