ACTIVIST
When i observe the word "activist"
I tend instead to think of "pest",
Often wishing they would desist
And spare us the charge for their arrest!
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Comments
Certainly, your former employers are being remarkably inactive at the moment, MC!
The clue is in my use of the word "often". My primary aim was
at those who seem to make a career of activism - and there ARE
such people...known and recognised in my own working life as
"rent-a-mob"= self-righteous zealots who eagerly climb aboard
any passing bandwagon that attracts their attention for whatever
(?) reason.
I'm not sure where I stand on this one.
On the one hand, when you get "activists" operating outside the law, causing disruption and damage, they are criminals. I don't care how just their cause, they should face the consequences for their crimes.
On the other hand. When politicians- such as Thatcher. Use the police force as their own private army then I have to come down on the other side.
As I say, I'm not sure where I stand.
Suffragettes, MC?
A poem to disagree with. Poetry has historically been the voice of dissent. Is not the activist a poet in action?
Thank you for this
Keith
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M.C. Newberry
Sun 16th Jan 2022 19:27
Greg - I have to agree about that odd state of affairs. But I
suspect that my time saw stronger and more independent
leadership from the likes of Sir Robert Mark et al. - willing
to steer a path that kept a healthy detachment from too much party political demand and influence.