Political protest seems to me a very big umbrella, and covers folks who are peaceful, folks who run amuck (breaking windows, throwing rocks at policemen, etc), and folks who firebomb, blow up statues, blow up buildings, or blow up other people.
therefore you bold this:
2: express opposition through action or words; "dissent to the laws of the country" [syn: resist, dissent] 3: affirm or avow formally or solemnly; "The suspect protested his innocence"
apparently you don't even understand the difference between hooliganism and 'protest'
dictionary.reference.com
hooliganism
n : willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others [syn: vandalism, malicious mischief]
no wonder you seem to have such comprension issues
you certainly give legitimate protest a bad name
ghandi and ml king would be proud
NOT
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so what do you think?
this a 'protest' against bad moviemaking?
newcriminologist.co.uk
Theo van Gogh’s killer caught running from the murder scene… Mohammed Bouyeri is no shrinking violet!
Published on 17 July 2005 | Author BERRY-DEE, Christopher.
They are not soldiers, they are cowards, who kill the innocent, blow themselves up or run away, yet, as brazen as you like, the self-confessed killer of Theo van Gogh faced his victim’s mother, Anneke, in an Amsterdam courtroom this week and through noxious vapours told her that he felt no remorse.
Brave words indeed from a religious zealot facing a life sentence at the taxpayers’ expense, and not a damn well deserved public flogging and lynching in a dusty town square.
Moral bigot, Mohammed Bouyeri, 27, said: “I don’t feel your pain. I don’t have any sympathy for you. I can’t feel for you because you’re a non-believer.”
Of course, and this will come as no surprise, Bouyeri is an Islamic radical who claimed that he was driven to killing Mr van Gogh, a Dutch film-maker, because of his religious beliefs and he would do the same thing again.
Murdered by a Religious Fanatic (©2004 Theo van Gogh)
Theo van Gogh’s film ‘Submission’ had offended Dutch Muslims; many of whom, it might be said, are ‘guests’ in Holland, and let them not forget it!
And, as most decent Muslims are aware, nowhere in the Koran do we find reference to it being acceptable to shoot a fellow eight times with a HS2000 handgun - and stabbing before nearly decapitating him and impaling his corpse with two knives, one of which secured a five-page note declaring a holy war…simply because one is not serially astute and dissatisfied with a movie!
Solitary and joyless, prickly to the point of paranoia, Bouyeri, the son of Moroccan immigrants to the Netherlands, is accused of killing Theo van Gogh in broad daylight in front of the – and you might have to wrestle with this one - Amsterdam East borough office (stadsdeelkantoor) on the corner of the Linnaeusstraat and Tweede Oosterparkstraat streets, Tuesday, 2 November 2004.
Despite insisting on his right to remain silent when the trial opened on Monday 11 July - which would have somewhat defeated his scheme of drumming up a holy war - Bouyeri, clutching the Koran and wearing a flowing robe and chequered headscarf, was soon proving himself no retiring fellow by enthusiastically alienating himself from the Court, by admitting his guilt in an exceedingly efficient way.
In a statement, which brought many of the shocked spectators to their feet, Bouyeri said: “I did what I did purely out of my beliefs. I want you to know that I acted out of conviction and not that I took his life because he was Dutch or because I was Moroccan and I felt insulted…I shot to kill and be killed. You cannot understand.”
Perhaps that’s why after the killing, like the coward he truly is, he ran away before a poorly aimed police bullet to his head missed, hit his leg and brought him down?
And, with grim echoes of the problems now apparent in many Western countries, the confession and lack of remorse highlighted the worst fears of mainstream Dutch society about the seemingly unbridgeable gap between them and some of the alienated Muslim youths growing up in the country, while at once reflecting the warped rationale of the four bombers who slaughtered 53 Londoners just a fortnight ago.
Like several of the London bombers - who recently proved at a stroke that their eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of their faces - Bouyeri was well-educated, had been a moderate Muslim who was considered reasonably well integrated before becoming radicalised nearly two years ago.
Prosecutors claim that he is part of a network of Islamic extremists with international links called the Hofstad group; terrorist cuckoos, many of whose members find themselves in the unfortunate fix of awaiting trial on terrorism charges in Rotterdam.
Frits van Straelen, the chief prosecutor, told the court: “The accused preaches a message of hate and violence. He preaches that anyone who thinks differently can be killed.”
It is claimed that on Wednesday, the Dutch Motion Picture Censor Board suddenly had eight vacated positions to fill, with new applicants grimly bearing in mind that Mr van Gogh, with a stunned and terminal look on his face, was cremated on November 9, 2004 in Amsterdam. |
