| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Boo for the Royal Wedding this post could have got you arrested | |
| Posted by: | Richard Jennings | |
| Date/Time: | 01/05/11 21:45:00 |
| "but from the coverage I have seen there were as many people not celebrating it...." From the stuff you post here, I guess that the coverage you see is, shall we say, of minority interest. There were a million people in central London to celebrate the wedding. Will has already posted the TV audience figures. Chris Knight claims, as you do, that this was just street theatre. But the website of Government of the Dead, his anti-royal anarchist group, says this: "Zombie Wedding in the shadow of the working guillotine. 9.30 for 10.00 am Wedding Breakfast, Soho Square ... 10.30 am Zombie Fertility Rite, Statue of Eros, Piccadilly Circus 11.00 am Westminster Abbey: Heads will roll And don't forget your maggot confetti!" So the implication is that they expected to turn up outside Westminster Abbey to guillotine effigies of the royal family before or during the service. Does anyone seriously believe that that action would not have resulted in a breach of the peace? Chris Knight said on ITV (I'm paraphrasing here) that he wanted people to enjoy themselves, and he wanted his group also to enjoy themselves in their own way. OK, but if their own way involves setting up a mock guillotine at Westminster Abbey to make a political point when everyone else is enjoying the wedding itself, that is a clear attempt to disrupt the event. I commend the police for their pre-emptive action. |