James M who feels people must stand up for their Rights may be the next lead-protestor when millions of living organisms on “his” Rondebosch Common are mortally trampled down by uncaring feet and the so-called protestors risk instigating a squatter invasion to unleash further damage with relentless shack-building ,overcrowding , polluting , etc etc ( how blind must one be not have seen how quickly it happened across the Mother City : the Hout Bay squatter take-over is acceptable ????)
I just cannot accept that there can be any other motive by this lot of protest organisers. Good for you Pat de L. don’t bow down to this bunch of environment destroyers – why not go and mess, I mean protest, on the Grand Parade . Their intended actions portray their total disregard for a public sanctuary that nobody will bar them from using in the correct manner- but to want to protest there for the sake of sending the right message or something , is like a spoilt child fighting over a toy( if I cannot just take somebody’s toy , I will just stomp on it so that no one has anything ) .

Is it possible that with the world overpopulation and rape of the environment there are seemingly still young future citizens with the total disregard for the last few square metres of open space.
He must know that he would still be rotting in jail if he merely moved in on some piece of vacant prime land . where must it all end ? so you allow another crazed mob of itinerant shack dwellers in one area, but where is the fairness in that .what about the next mob of insatiable land grabbers.

Sure, utopian conditions hardly exist in any parts of the world: but for all the distastefulness one sees in the exploitational capitalist system and the horrors of the oppressed millions one has to admire the spreading of a notion that with solid hard work (high work ethic) , a fair acquisition of a dwelling by commercial means is the only fair system and of course in the correctly allocated area.

Why on earth are we allowing the continued collapse of an environment which has served us so well for so long : it almost seems the youth are living under the illusion that the route is as simple as climbing onto the next spacecraft heading for Mars -as soon as they have destroyed the Earth. I say they because it is astonishing that many of the publicity seeking? so-called protestors on the Common seemed to be youngsters who already probably have palatial suites in their parents’ homes.