GET THE TROOPS OUT

What's with London, rain and protests?? Spent another Sunday in the rain again supporting a fantastically important cause. Get the Troops out of Afghanistan!!!

The war in Afgan/Pakistan is costing thousands of innocent lives and to what gain. Young British soldiers are sent there without basic equipment and with no understanding to why they are really there...they confuse protection with occupation...leaving the land ripe for invasions from the Taliban. In a land where there is no hope and drones drop bombs on your Village on Eid day...what else but can you do but pick the lesser of two evils...helps if they are supporting a beard too.

While the West keep their troops in Afgan/Pak no peace will ever come to that region.
The people will continue to suffer under a regime which allows innocents to be killed..children to starve..women to be denied basic human rights..they will continue to grow in their hatred towards the West.
When the floods hit Pakistan...where was the Western aid? It was left to Islamist groups to take care of the people.
When drones hit villages and kill innocent people ..is it not the West that drop these bombs?
When troops enter homes and abuse women and take the men are these not western troops?
And who is always there to clear up the mess and sooth the pain...The Taliban and other similar organisations.

What part of we are doing irrepairable damage does this government not get? How do they not see what a mess that they are creating and how they fuel anti West sentiment's; whilst pushing the people towards the the wolf dressed in sheep's clothing. Makes me wonder sometimes................

So what is the west gaining from having a foot hole in that region...?
What is it that is so important that it's worth sacrificing innocent lives for??
Is it the natural gases found in the region?? The location with its proximity to Pakistan and Iran with their nuclear knowledge and power....or something even more sinister??
Who knows really...all we can do is speculate and even then we won't get close to the truth.

So what can we do? We can start by letting our voices be heard...letting our Governments know that their Occupation of Afghanistan and their illegal war in Pakistan cannot go on any longer. We need to let them know that we will not be silenced and this violence is not in our name. So stand up brothers and sisters...let me here you shun injustice and embrace freedom and equality.

below is a selection of pictures of some of today's speakers.

 On a slightly lighter note...some how in a ditzy moment I managed to delete about 80 percent of the photos from today from my memory card...hopefully (Inshallah) I will be able to get them back and when I do I promise you will be the first to see them.
However I hope the sample that I have provided today has highlighted how many people sacrificed their Saturday to stand in the rain to oppose the troops in Afhganistan and made you stop and think about what you can do.

Good night xx
Oh yeah and excuse any typos its late