March 17, 2010
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blood protest.
it is extremely unnerving to know to what extend people of supposedly sane mind are willing to do, despite the fact that they have much more civilized and educated options to choose from. i have only recently encountered news on thailand where many of the country's citizens would draw out their own blood and have it thrown to the front of their prime minister's house as an act of protest. their goal is to have the PM to voluntarily step down from his current position.
why can't people just wait until the next election year to elect a different candidate that they feel more suitable as their leader? ok, so i'm not the most politically informed guy or that fully aware of what led these people to act the way they did, but logic tells me that's such a tremendous waste. not to mention stupid. if they really wanted to use blood, why couldn't they collect the blood of the many animals that were to be butchered for consumption? or at least use fake blood, if "shocking" was what they were aiming for. this way they would still be able to get across a message they want to convey, right? ...or am i just not getting it?
news source - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8571592.stm
Comments (2)
There is lots of craziness out there... This is my view from watching things halfway across the world and not having been there... My understanding is the protesters do not have enough support to actually win an election. But have enough backing and numbers to cripple things and cause trouble. So they are mostly in a no-win situation. And people have big egos.
Now I was also going to include a diatribe about what people call democracy and elections but kept rewriting it. Another time.
-Rms
@jabberwocky_rms - yeah, i see that. sad. real sad.