Truck blockade
3 July 2008 – 8:07 pmIf you don't know what I'm talking about, here's the chance to catch up the news.
People are expecting total chaos in tomorrow morning's commute hours, and starting to blame the truckies.
I agree that we are a democratic society and people do have the right to protest and I totally respect truckies' right to protest.
However, those truckies should also keep the purposes of a protest in mind:1) to threat somebody(or an organisation), 2) to win more support.
Clearly, the blockade tomorrow is more like a threat to government, with little or no consideration to the people who want to support them.
Yes, every protest will inevitably create some inconvenience to other people, it should be minimised for the sake of those people.
I supported bus driver strike. One of the reasons for that is because they didn't drive the buses on the road to protest, instead, they stopped driving and protesting at bus stops and depots.
Sure that made some of us unable to go to work, but that is quite understandable - you can't expect them to drive buses while on a strike?
Life is hard for every one of us already, so next time when you want to do something, please, minimise the impact on others. Why not just park all the trucks in an open ground and have a all day loud shouts + BBQ?
