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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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