banned from parade
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Topic: banned from parade
Posted By: Bizzy
Subject: banned from parade
Date Posted: 19 November 2007 at 8:47am
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Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 19 November 2007 at 10:00am
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Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 19 November 2007 at 9:57pm
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i heard the tail end of the story on radio today.....never heard of them or the ban ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 19 November 2007 at 10:01pm
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Aren't they the ones that camp out on main roads with members locked in cages etc to protest the Chinese govt? From the little I know about them I really don't think the Santa Parade is a suitable place to air their views. ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: baalamb
Date Posted: 19 November 2007 at 10:25pm
Their float was extremely strange, and looked rather out of place in a Christmas parade. The float was HUUUUUGE! Bigger/taller than any other (I got a picture of it if anyone was interested), but I had no idea who they were. There was one man on the float that sat there with his eyes closed and I actually said to DH 'is that guy going to meditate the whole way through the parade?!' 
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 19 November 2007 at 11:42pm
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Pics please Kirst. That seems very strange ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 20 November 2007 at 8:21am
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I'll say....share the pics!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: baalamb
Date Posted: 20 November 2007 at 8:44am
Nothing Christmassy about it... in saying that though, I don't know anything about these people! So maybe it is Christmassy?! The photo doesn't do the actual size of the float any justice. ETA: just saw the tinsel... Guess that's Christmassy LOL ETA again: DH just informed me that this probably isn't even the group in question!!!!  crazy float anyway 
Last time ETA: ok, it is the right group. There's a video of it on the link that Deb posted in the first post. |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 23 November 2007 at 11:42am
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Whilst I don't think much of Falun Gong as an organisation, I have to agree with them that it is a breach of the Bill of Rights to ban them from the parade. Whatever happened to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of political belief? -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 25 November 2007 at 9:17am
most of the time they are a group from the temples and celebrating with everyone for xmas....they open the temples to share their "religion" and ways of life with everyone and are such a peaceful people...I have no problem with them in any parade - I dont agree they should necessarily hand out flyers but understand they agreed not to anyways...so i dont see the harm in their float....its not all about santa (says the atheist!)
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