09-20-2007, 05:51 PM
Quote:HAhahahahah...the man is from Denmark....he understands protests culture.
Well he said he didn't in a previous post. I know there is a big protest culture in Europe, but I don't know how possible it is to get away from it in small towns.
Quote:(I have seen a strike at a supermarket in teh US once where the strikers were not allowed to talk to the people walking by....every 5 minutes a policecar passed by to see if this was all going fine...).
Nope. You misunderstood things. The protesters may have been instructed to keep things quiet by their union, to keep public support high. The police are frequently at these sort of things to keep order. They are also there to protect the publics right to shop at the store (moving in front of a shopper to stop them from entering the store interferes with THEIR right to move and shop freely). There is, however, no legal way to stop a striker from peacefully expressing his opinion on public property. In fact, the parking lot, which is technically private property, is considered open to the public and they are not allowed to ban strikers from it (we had a grocery strike not to long ago here).
Remember, we had democracy and constitutional freedom of speech when you were still mucking about with kings.
Quote:Do us a favor and go troll under a different bridge.
Seems a bit uncalled for.