Multiple Choice
Question: Why does a 'peaceful' protester take a snooker ball to a student demonstration?
Is the correct answer:
a) To have a game of snooker or billiards
b) To share the simple beauty of completely spherical object with fellow protesters
c) To throw the snooker ball at a police officer or police horse
The right answer is of course c) - and top marks to everyone who saw through a) and b) - which of course were not remotely believable - to anyone whose head doesn't button up the back.
At last week's latest student protest outside Westminster - it was a poor old police horse that got whacked in the head with the said snooker ball.
Causing the terrified animal to throw and injure its rider - before trying to bolt into the crowd - where even more people could have been hurt by the protester's stupid and criminal behaviour.
The scene of the latest mini-riot and widespread vandalism was Westminster Square - and student leaders had agreed to avoid that area - as part of their peaceful protest.
Yet hundreds of students broke away from the main march - providing useful cover for the rioters and vandals to go about their work.
Another way of describing them would be as 'useful idiots' - who then have the cheek to complain about police tactics.
To my mind the protesters caught up in these increasingly violent demonstrations have little to complain about - because they put themselves in harm's way.
The poor police horse had no such choice - yet it was on the receiving end of a violent attack.
Is the correct answer:
a) To have a game of snooker or billiards
b) To share the simple beauty of completely spherical object with fellow protesters
c) To throw the snooker ball at a police officer or police horse
The right answer is of course c) - and top marks to everyone who saw through a) and b) - which of course were not remotely believable - to anyone whose head doesn't button up the back.
At last week's latest student protest outside Westminster - it was a poor old police horse that got whacked in the head with the said snooker ball.
Causing the terrified animal to throw and injure its rider - before trying to bolt into the crowd - where even more people could have been hurt by the protester's stupid and criminal behaviour.
The scene of the latest mini-riot and widespread vandalism was Westminster Square - and student leaders had agreed to avoid that area - as part of their peaceful protest.
Yet hundreds of students broke away from the main march - providing useful cover for the rioters and vandals to go about their work.
Another way of describing them would be as 'useful idiots' - who then have the cheek to complain about police tactics.
To my mind the protesters caught up in these increasingly violent demonstrations have little to complain about - because they put themselves in harm's way.
The poor police horse had no such choice - yet it was on the receiving end of a violent attack.
