A class of nine-year olds from our village school had made the trip into London with two teachers to see it. The teachers, seeing the escalation of the aggressiveness of the “protesters” and knowing their first duty was to the safety of their charges who were getting frightened, escorted the children from the building and back to school early. Apparently, they weren’t the only schoolchildren caught up in the Greenpeace hooliganism.
If they thought they made some big impact that day, they certainly did. They frightened young children badly.
The “protest” as such never made the national news, though it got a mention on local London TV, but what was interesting was the spin on the reportage wasn’t what they used to get in the good old days. It was all talking heads, interviewing people who’d travelled from as far away as Scotland to see the exhibition and had been prevented by the necessary closure of the museum because of safety considerations.
As one of the children expressed it, “they were bad people.”
Out of the mouth of babes.
Source: I don’t like people who frighten children. | Pointman’s
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