Message #3392

[Boudi]

I don't automatically agree with protestors, and I don't see that the default position should be to do so.  If this were the case then the people protesting agaisnt Salman Rushdie, abortion clinics and  gay marriage would automatically get your backing.

The people campaigning to keep the hospital are on a hiding to nowhere because the facility we have is useless.  A campaign to make it what it was and keepm it, yes, but the work it does now could be done from a S.John Ambulance!  (if they sold magazines too)

As to whether the bible is (only) what you say...this has been debated for centuries.  There were people who believed that the Bible said we should hold everything in common...I believe the 39 articles makes a point of saying that the bible doesn't say this at all....so it's up for debate.

Private eye sums it up pretty well when it dsays that the result was that some people who were concerned about the poor lost their jobs, and the bankers carried on regardless.