When is a protest not a protest?

[Workingman]

When it's a vigil.

And vice versa.

Tonight's protest, and others, have been just that: protests. They have been tugging at the heart strings by riding on the back of the murder of a young woman and using her murder to further their agenda(s). Look at the posters the carry, listen to their chants, and hear what their self-elected leaders are saying.

We have a problem here because anyone who criticises them or challenges them in any way is ignored or shouted down and effectively silenced. Members of the media, public figures and politicians are scared to death of even mildly criticising the protests because they know that to do so would be career ending.

Free speech is only free if it agrees with what they are saying - apparently.

[cromwell]

You are right about the hijacking WM.
Frankly our politicians are way too timorous around some of these agenda pushers, especially the Trans insanity. I'm not a fan of J.K. Rowling but every word she has said on the Trans subject I absolutely agree with because it is the plain truth.
In the US some States are kicking back against it too.

[medsec222]

If anyone dares to disagree with the 'correct' Agenda they are often hounded and bullied out of their job. How can that be right. Where is constructive debate in all of this?

[Workingman]

I see that the message is slowly getting through - these are not vigils, they are protests.

They have nothing to do with the Sarah Everard murder, they are about other things initiated and controlled by the various rent-a-mobs.

I have a big problem with this. The people driving these various agendas are over represented in music, the arts, entertainment and the media when compared to the general population. However, they are in powerful positions in those influential areas of society to promote their version of what is right or wrong and what is seen as normal. Their version of what is right is the only one to accept, any other is a perversion of the truth. Ironic eh? They are in a position to, and will, shut alternative thinking down. In articles and interviews we rarely, if ever, hear the contrary side. See; Piers Morgan.

Try the BBC's constant and relentless articles about LGBTQ+ "firsts" and their "achievements" in theatre, arts, sports, politics. No stone is ever left unturned. It is not "woke" it is much more sinister than that.

[Kaz]

Well if the new policing bill gets through, a protest will be anything the government says is a protest They can make any protest of more than one person illegal Our rights to peaceful protest gone.