The London mob has been around as long as London. And now we see that it is still with us.
I make no comment about the exhibition itself – its merits or otherwise. Probably not to my taste anyway. But that’s besides the point. An artists puts on an exhibition as a comment on the horrors of slavery and the usual anti-racist crowd get it shut down. So a bunch of vociferous campaigners got to decide what people could see or not. Excuse me?
Whatever happened to the rule of law?
More mind control; discrimination,racism, bullying, militants, insurgents, terrorists, gang warfare, mob rule, vandal protesters etc. etc.
It’s all carefully orchestrated by insider provocateurs as “infotainment” for “something must be done”. “outrage!” “arrest the perpetrators” to keep the guardian readers oblivious of the real agenda.
“…to keep the guardian readers oblivious of the real agenda…”
Not wishing to be overly pedantic, but in my experience, Guardian readers are oblivious – full stop!
Snork!
And I suppose the rent-a-mob crowd will keep warm this winter with an organised burning of books…
You’re quite right: I see quite a few exhibitions advertised and think to myself that I’d rather have an evening with Harridan Harperson (well, maybe not really) than go.
Would I dream of stopping anyone else, or berating them?
Of course not: each to his taste, irrespective of whether I deem it to be execrable.
Of course, if it had been a mob of English Defence League supporters, the police would have arrested the lot of them. Our police are now highly politicised, and very selective in who they allow to demonstrate. Thanks to Blair and Straw.