So what exactly are you protesting for?

[Hocus Eye.]

Should the OP actually be by a journalist in disguise, I'd like to protest about the singular verb (is) where the plural (are) was appropriate.

Making a mistake with the English language doesn't preclude the poster being a journalist.

However I don't think he is one. His question is too vague and it is hard to work out what answer he really wants. Journalists always have a pre-determined answer in mind when they ask questions. They just want a quote to reinforce the article that they will aready have written.

 

[isitme]

i think people are protesting to show that they are disillusioned with this whole idea that the news is giving that these people at the G20 summit are supposed to be coming up with an answer to the crisis that we see them as creating

since we are so disenfranchised nowadays i mean, voting won't do anything, so it makes people feel a little bit more involved to go and shout at them when they are all in one place

 

[lights.out.london]

I'll be protesting against the oppressive regulatory regime imposed on us by Big Govt that severely restricts City firms and firms like mine from doing whatever the hell we want, and "fuck you" to the rest.

 

[cantsin]

What protests?

First I've heard of it.

plse answer - are you and your friends going to be in bars "laughing at protestors " like you nearly were last time , or are you off back to mummy's and daddy again ?

 

[ViolentPanda]

I won't be protesting for anything, I'll be protesting against the institutions, politics and policies that have just recently caused a worldwide economic recession that will disproportionately affect the most vulnerable members of society.
I'll also be protesting against your mum, OP.

 

[ajdown]

I'll be protesting for the right to go about my daily business without a bunch of anarchists disrupting it.

 

[xes]

I'll be protesting for the right to go about my daily business without a bunch of anarchists disrupting it.

then will you put bambo splints under your fingernails and hammer them down?

or you can just pull down your pants, grease that lovely hole of yours and ease in a large goverment funded dildo.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I was watching an American news programme and when they talked about the G20 in the UK they used the expression "Protesting the G20" without a for or against.

Some people I know will be 'Protesting the War' tomorrow in one specific march from the American Embassy to Trafalgar square. The fact is that there are lots of different groups of people protesting (about) lots of different issues all of them laid at the foot of the current political and economic owners of power.

 

[butchersapron]

Beware of protesters as

Anarchists are planning to storm City banks after posing as protesters

 

[kabbes]

Will people stop buggering about? Tell the nice journo what the protests are about.

We've decided that Enough Is Enough as far as nonces are concerned. Nonce sense -- it's the future.

 

[kyser_soze]

I'm protesting for better cocaine in SW London, goddammit.

 

[STFC]

plse answer - are you and your friends going to be in bars "laughing at protestors " like you nearly were last time , or are you off back to mummy's and daddy again ?

Looks like I've got my very own stalker!

Nope, I'm about all week. You?

 

[editor]

I'll be protesting for the right to go about my daily business without a bunch of anarchists disrupting it.

You'd be better off protesting against those people at the top responsible for ruining many people's 'daily business.'

 

[edhunter]

I'm protesting for better cocaine in SW London, goddammit.

Now I know that I'll be out there with you

 

[kabbes]

Now I know that I'll be out there with you

Good lord, you really do love fishing, don't you?

 

[Hocus Eye.]

So a graffiti artist and some friends have been arrested in Plymouth and the media try to make a connection with the G20 protests in London on the basis that these people have some homemade guns and fireworks.

The rest of that article linked to by BA is also just a re-jig of the same content that has been going around for the last week, yet they present it as today's news.

The words 'strategy of tension' come to mind. If violence doesn't break out tomorrow or Thursday both the media and the police will be very disappointed.

 

[xes]

Now I know that I'll be out there with you

blatent journo cover, blown.

 

[bluestreak]

From that Mail article:

The plans to invade the City were unveiled to anarchist leaders at a meeting in an east London squat last night, according to the Evening Standard.

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Interesting, so the leaders of the anarchists get called up to a secret squat where they are given their orders. But who gives orders to the leaders of the anarchists? Are they anarchists too?

 

[edhunter]

Yes Xes I am a covert journalist and I have specifically come on here to covertly interview you, you've rumbled me

 

[kyser_soze]

From that Mail article:

The plans to invade the City were unveiled to anarchist leaders at a meeting in an east London squat last night, according to the Evening Standard.

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Interesting, so the leaders of the anarchists get called up to a secret squat where they are given their orders. But who gives orders to the leaders of the anarchists? Are they anarchists too?

They're in the pocket of the Illuminati, and are taking the orders to the useful fools to discredit any alternatives. The whole anarchist high command is in fact a capitalist invention!!!

 

[kabbes]

Yes Xes I am a covert journalist and I have specifically come on here to covertly interview you, you've rumbled me

Well you're certainly acting exceedingly like a covert journalist who has specifically come on here to covertly interview us.

 

[ajdown]

You'd be better off protesting against those people at the top responsible for ruining many people's 'daily business.'

Why would I 'stand with' people that do not represent my opinions, or point of view?

I'd be much better off standing in the middle of London Bridge tomorrow morning with a big sign saying 'down with anarchists'.

 

[Dan U]

Why would I 'stand with' people that do not represent my opinions, or point of view?

I'd be much better off standing in the middle of London Bridge tomorrow morning with a big sign saying 'down with anarchists'.

please do.

i'll say hello when i walk past.

 

[Maggot]

From that Mail article:

The plans to invade the City were unveiled to anarchist leaders at a meeting in an east London squat last night, according to the Evening Standard.

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Interesting, so the leaders of the anarchists get called up to a secret squat where they are given their orders. But who gives orders to the leaders of the anarchists? Are they anarchists too?

Anarchist leaders is a great oxymoron.

 

[cesare]

Why would I 'stand with' people that do not represent my opinions, or point of view?

I'd be much better off standing in the middle of London Bridge tomorrow morning with a big sign saying 'down with anarchists'.

Right in the middle hopefully.

 

[STFC]

Why would I 'stand with' people that do not represent my opinions, or point of view?

I'd be much better off standing in the middle of London Bridge tomorrow morning with a big sign saying 'down with anarchists'.

In Hip Hop parlance that means you agree with them.

 

[Corax]

I'd be much better off standing in the middle of London Bridge tomorrow morning with a big sign saying 'down with anarchists'.

Oh yes, please do that. Pleeeease.

 

[ajdown]

Unfortunately I'll be trying to work for a living at that time.

 

[cesare]

Unfortunately I'll be trying to work for a living at that time.

Make the most of it while you can.

 

[Corax]

Unfortunately I'll be trying to work for a living at that time.

The none too subtle implication being that all the protesters are jobless layabouts.

Do you get that people actually take time off work to be involved in causes they care about?