If they are against them, as they protest, why are they doing everything they can to sabotage a financial-reform bill that will make them less likely?

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Their wings rise in feverish protest as if they are running late for the last bus, and when coming into land their bodies sprawl like a skydiver before their clown feet absorb the blow.

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This result may reflect some people's belief in the right to protest, even if they don't back the aim of a particular demonstration.

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In most countries the police would respond to such cases by clearing a path to the door, arresting protesters if they resisted violently, but allowing the protest to go ahead.

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"If they're not restricted in what they can do and there's no consumer protest, people could lose their freedom of choice, " he says.

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Members wondered if they could spread the word for a brief strike to protest inflation.

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But if voters did not send a protest note to Downing Street, they did send one to their local town hall.

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If law enforcement officers feel so strongly about a law that they cannot enforce it, then they should resign in protest.

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Mr Beesley said if the council failed to persuade the protesters to move on, they could use apply for an order to evict the protest camp.

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