I agree with all the stuff said about ANZAC day being nationalistic and jingoistic but what was the point of protesting the dawn service, I thought the idea was to make libertarian and socialist ideas as mainstream and popular as possible and this is clearly not the way to go about it. Why couldnt you have just had a vigil to the CO's or victims of New Zealand war crimes, how was burning the flag at the dawn service anything but unproductive, but I guess if your more concerned with a self-righteous ideological purity rather than actually making socialist ideas popular then it was the perfect thing to do. Conratulations you made a bunch of potential sympathisers hate our ideas.
We're not socialists! And who says you need a mass movement to get a revolution?
The idea was to spark some discussion that normally is never given time. Judging from the comments I'm reading, I think the protests achieved a lot.
all your protest achived was to make people who would normally sympathise with you, (such as myself) angry, pissing off the whole country doesnt achve anything but the opposite of what you want.
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The idea was to spark some discussion that normally is never given time. Judging from the comments I'm reading, I think the protests achieved a lot.
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