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Listed below are comments made by peterboris between Wednesday, 1st April 2009 and Tuesday, 19th May 2009.

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The Speaker resigns. 6:18pm on 19 May 2009 The way I see it is that, at the end of the day, if you or I falsified our tax returns, say, we'd be up in court for fraud, so how can it be okay for MPs to fiddle their expenses. I mean claiming for a mortgage you've already aid off, I ask you. How can you not know you've aid it off? Paying off a mortgage is a major event in most people's lives. They should be setting an example for the rest of us!
Reporting demos, and all that Jazz. 6:40pm on 01 Apr 2009 With reference to your discussion of protests. I am writing to say that as far as I'm concerned, so long as

protestors don't use violence or intimidation, and they don't damage property or disrupt people from going about

lawful business, then they should be applauded for standing up for what they believe, taking the time to stand up

and be counted.
Personally, I have first hand experience of protesting.
About ten years ago the G8 held their summit of world leaders in Birmingham.
Christian Aid organised a protest calling for the cancellation of the unpayable debts of third world countries.
This demonstration took the form of a human chain around the centre of Birmingham where the conference was taking

place. This was entirely peaceful; whole families went along to be part of it. I remember at one point I was

standing outside Pizza Hut with the others when someone came out of Pizza Hut with ice creams for everyone (which

was most welcome as I remember it was quite a hot day.
Whether the world leaders took any notice of us, I don't know, but the point was, we were there, making our point,

and hopefullly bringing the cause of debt cancellation to media attention.
It was an entirely peaceful day in the sun for all the family, so to sum my point up, don't tar all demonstrators

with the same brush, we are not all violent extremists, just ordinary eople asserting our democratic right to make

our views known to politicians.

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