Why The Difference?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3297743/PLATELL-S-PEOPLE-Quiet-dignity-Marines-shames-riot-rabble.html

Two dignified protests, how very different from that other one, held earlier in the week, I refer of course to those pro-immigration protesters.

[Gromit]

One involved anarchists. The clue is in the name.

[naomi24]

One group has respect - the other has none.

[mikey4444]

I can't see any connection between these two protests whatsoever, other than both appearing in the same article together in the DM.

[naomi24]

The connection is that they're protests.

[mikey4444]

Two protests carefully chosen by the DM, out of many others, with nothing in common between them Naomi.

[naomi24]

They do have something in common - they're both protests. It seems fair enough to me to compare them. It's a good question.

[Baldric]

///nothing in common between them/// except that they were BOTH Protests. a Protest does not have to be a riot which in my opinion only turns normal people against the protesters and their aims.
To be fair I'll bet those Veterans could have caused a lot more mayhem had they wanted to!

[mikey4444]

Apart from being protests, they have nothing in common.

The DM could have chosen any other protest that was not violent to compare to the protest about the Army chap, but cleverly choose one involving the immigrant issue, thus bringing immigration and the refugee crisis up for discussion. Rather clumsy on the DMs part.

[Gromit]

If you read the opinion piece they actually compare 3 protests and mention that the steel workers protest was also dignified.

Like Mikey, I cannot see the point of the comparison. To me it is not comparing like with like. Anarchists have a riot, and soldiers have an orderly parade. Both behaving as we would expect them to.

[Baldric]

Army Chap?????

[naomi24]

Gromit, //To me it is not comparing like with like. //

That's the whole point of the comparison. The two groups are worlds apart.

[Baldric]

///The Royal Marines are the amphibious troops of the Royal Navy, acknowledged as one of the world's elite commando forces.///

Mikey, It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

[bazwillrun]

@naomi

youre wasting youre time, its obviously going straight over their heads at alarming speed..

[naomi24]

Conveniently so, I suspect.

[bazwillrun]

"Apart from being protests, they have nothing in common."

oooh thats must be the sound of pedaling backwards !

[Gromit]

If this comparison is supposed to prove that anarchists and trained soldiers are worlds apart then I suppose it does.
But is is so bleedin obvious they are different what is the point?

You could compare the soldiers with EDL marchers with the same conclusion. But why would anyone bother?

[Zacs-Master]

Just seems like the normal DM posturing. Supporting our armed forces / condemning anything to do with illegal immigrants.

[bazwillrun]

"Just seems like the normal DM posturing. Supporting our armed forces / condemning anything to do with illegal immigrants. "

good for them...long may it continue

[Svejk]

The EDL are a fine upstanding peaceable bunch of lads. (until they're set upon by 'your' cowardly, unwashed UAF comrades)

[naomi24]

//Supporting our armed forces / condemning anything to do with illegal immigrants.//

And why not? Exactly the right thing to do.