Britain's Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall react as their car is attacked, in London, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010. Angry protesters in London attacked the car containing Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. An Associated Press photographer saw demonstrators kick the car in Regent Street, in the heart of London's shopping district. The car then sped off. Charles' office, Clarence House, confirmed that "their royal highnesses' car was attacked by protesters on the way to their engagement at the London Palladium this evening, but their royal highnesses are unharmed."
A broken window and splattered paint are pictured on a car used to transport Britain's Prince Charles and Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall to the London Palladium in London, on December 9, 2010, after it was attacked by protesters during a student demonstration.
I consider myself left-of-center, but I totally agree with you. I'm never gonna find myself able to sympathize with these kinds of "protests", I didn't last year when we had similar shit going on in here Germany (over basically nothing, compared to the UK) and I don't in this case. Bunch of crazies are crazy.
That's nice of you to share. Of course anger over gutting university teaching budgets by 80% and forcing students into massive debt is just 'crazy' and not at all a normal reaction to having your future trampled on by dipshits who had a free university education.
I'm sorry, but unprovokedly breaking someone's car window and throwing paint is pretty much that: Crazy. That sort of behavior is not what constitutes legitimate protest. It makes you a mob. Break Cameron or Clegg's car windows if you must (you don't), but Charles and Camilla have nothing to do with policy. They can't even vote.
And by the way, the UK is not the only country where students have to pay relatively high tuition fees. Those countries seem to have fared well so far, no riots needed.
No one is really defending it....they just understand the reaction. When your livelihood is threatened, people get upset. What's difficult to understand here?
And this situation is about what is happening in the UK, I don't care about everywhere else.
Thanks for clearing that one up!
I'm never gonna find myself able to sympathize with these kinds of "protests", I didn't last year when we had similar shit going on in here Germany (over basically nothing, compared to the UK) and I don't in this case.
Bunch of crazies are crazy.
That sort of behavior is not what constitutes legitimate protest. It makes you a mob.
Break Cameron or Clegg's car windows if you must (you don't), but Charles and Camilla have nothing to do with policy. They can't even vote.
And by the way, the UK is not the only country where students have to pay relatively high tuition fees. Those countries seem to have fared well so far, no riots needed.
And this situation is about what is happening in the UK, I don't care about everywhere else.