Been poking around catching videos on the anger the blockers have generated in the blockees. I'll say this --if you have blood pressure problems, don't go exploring in that video area.
From what I can tell, the UK cops are more ballsy about treating the blockers than our pussypants cops (or their superiors).
I note one jurisdiction (I forget which) has increased the fine to 50 big ones, I forget whether that was thousands of Pounds or Dollars. Maybe that was Australia, whose gene pool is probably more full of no-nonsense types, and some of the blockees are "mechanically" moving the blockers along by use of horsepower.
Funny to watch three or four jerkwater blockers trying to hold back a car as it advances. I grin: Three jerkpowers against 200 horsepowers. :)
All the theoretical, ethical, legal, and moral principles tossed back and forth in this thread don't seem to mean a hill of beans to the general population of furious blockees who are missing airline flights and picking up kids at school.
As opposed to the infantile self-righteousness of the blockers.
I'm toying with the advisability of getting a gross of long wire ties if it ever happens to me. I'd distribute them generously to any of my fellow blockees to anchor the blockers to things near the sidewalks so they can't run back in the street to continue the blockade. Not that I, personally, would use them, but I'd be willing to hand them out to angry blockees.
For free.
As I said before, you got rights, but so do I, and your right to petition against grievances, however serious, does not trump my right to peaceable passage to wherever I was going, however trivial.
I repeat my caution about watching those vids if you have BP problems.
Terry, 230RN
Edited to cure line-wrapping problem.
