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Ryan Bridge: The power of protesting peacefully · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Freedom is a thing I think we can all love
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  Speaker 1: about living in this country and living in a country
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  Speaker 1: like ours. It's democratic and it's pretty liberal. We fight,
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  Speaker 1: we protest, we argue, we debate, but unlike most of
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the world, we don't get physical, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we don't go out and kill each other in the
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  Speaker 1: name of our beliefs. We express ourselves and then we
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  Speaker 1: try and find a solution. Look around the world section
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  Speaker 1: of the newspaper this morning, from the Middle East to Africa,
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  Speaker 1: to Europe, to Georgia to parts of America. Even your
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  Speaker 1: seat places falling apart of the seams, or freedom being
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  Speaker 1: crushed into a one thousand tiny pieces. We have in
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  Speaker 1: this country, for the most part, standards about how we
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  Speaker 1: do things. We have boundaries, and that I think was
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  Speaker 1: crossed at the weekend. Protest is taking it too far,
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  Speaker 1: as they did live streaming from outside the personal home
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  Speaker 1: of a member of Parliament, a cabinet minister, their own
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  Speaker 1: personal home where their partner lives with the other children,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure visit grandchildren, where family friends stop buy for
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  Speaker 1: a cup of tea. It's their sanctuary. Everyone who's got
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  Speaker 1: a home knows what that feels like. You know, they're
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  Speaker 1: family photos on the walls, they've got junk mail in
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  Speaker 1: the door. It's someone's home and some genius thought it
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  Speaker 1: would be a great idea to get a mob outside
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  Speaker 1: a senior minister's home at the weekend, at nighttime and
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  Speaker 1: start yelling. It is not a good idea. It has
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  Speaker 1: never been a good idea, and it never will be.
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  Speaker 1: They published his address. You might think you appear harmless
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  Speaker 1: with your flags and your balaklavas and you're yelling with
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  Speaker 1: your masks on your faces, but not all people outside
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  Speaker 1: of politics share this view. You can look scary, intimidating
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  Speaker 1: and threatening. So please please carry on protesting. We're all
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  Speaker 1: free to do so, but perhaps next time stop and
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  Speaker 1: think about how your actions might be affecting people around you,
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  Speaker 1: people who aren't in politics or making decisions. And I
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  Speaker 1: think actually today you should take a good hard look
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  Speaker 1: in the mirror, get a pen in a paper and
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  Speaker 1: write a letter to that minister to say sorry. For
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