143 arrested in London

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph....r-Congo-protests.html

Haven't we enough of our own protesters without these foreign nationals causing mayhem in our capital over what is happening thousands of miles away in the Democratic Republic of Congo?

If they are all that concerned, why don't they leave England and go back to the Congo and sort the trouble out there?

[Gromit]

// ...years of mass rape, genocide, and repression (with UN estimates of more than 5 million, nearly a tenth of the population, murdered in the past decade) and the western states' support for an illegitimate leader after rigged elections. //

AOG: Or are even interested, why should we be?

Answer: Because they human being and suffering.

[anotheoldgit]

Then what are doing about it yourself Gromit, have you been over to the Congo, did you join them in Trafalgar Square, have you sent a strongly worded letter to their London Embassy?

None of these, I suspect, so still the mass rape, genocide, and repression goes on, or perhaps you think it would be quite in order to send our troops out there, so that you could later criticise them, for being there?

Tell us what your solution is Gromit?

[sp1814]

Did anyone else notice this excellent Freudian slip from Sunday:

"They have abused our hostility, and therefore deserve to be sent back from whence they came"

[ummmm]

Lol sp...missed that. Classic :-)

[sandyRoe]

A gun boat to the Congo? Heart of Darkness time?

[sunny-dave]

Well that's me (yellow), triggs (blue) and helen (red) stuffed then ;)

[boxtops]

Get off your high horse, AOG - it doesn't hurt any of us to know what's happening in other parts of the world. That God that this is a free country, and people are ABLE to demonstrate.

[anotheoldgit]

boxtops

/// it doesn't hurt any of us to know what's happening in other parts of the world. ///

No not in the least if you are prepared to do something about it, but how can a unruly mob in Trafalgar Square, possibly illustrate to you what is happening in other parts of the world?

I am not against anyone demonstrating in a correct manner, providing they have a domestic grievance, but not against what is happening thousands of miles away and which has nothing to do with us anyway.

[anotheoldgit]

redhelen

/// Come on Triggs, we all know that to come from the UK you must have perfect white skin and either speak with a perfect british accent - everything else is foreign and therefore you must leave asap!!! ///

Ah so that's it is it?

I have committed that almighty sin again, that being, daring to criticise those with darker skins.