{"id":22930,"date":"2015-09-01T18:19:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T18:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=22930"},"modified":"2015-09-01T18:26:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T18:26:33","slug":"todays-demo-in-piccadilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/09\/todays-demo-in-piccadilly\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s demo in Piccadilly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outside the embassy was cordoned off<br \/>\nAnd the middle section too<br \/>\nSupposedly health and safety<br \/>\nThat is what they do<br \/>\nContain us in this elongated box<br \/>\nSo we don&#8217;t stray<br \/>\n400 or so protestors<br \/>\nWere there to mark the day<\/p>\n<p>The first day of the dolphin hunt<br \/>\nIn the infamous west coast spot<br \/>\nThat is really into whaling<br \/>\nAnd eating them a lot<br \/>\nDolphins yes and porpoises<br \/>\nAnd pilot whales will die<br \/>\nAnd the pretty ones sold off<br \/>\nTo Sea World and made into slaves<br \/>\nWhich is why<\/p>\n<p>We all get together in our super duper pod<br \/>\nAnd make as much noise as we can<br \/>\nAsking whatever god<br \/>\nTo realise that slaughtering<br \/>\nOf whole pods isn&#8217;t right<br \/>\nHow can that be culture<br \/>\nIts murder<br \/>\nWatch them fight<br \/>\nAnd its done in front of all of them<br \/>\nBut the fishermen don&#8217;t care<br \/>\nThey are a heartless bunch of ruffians<br \/>\nAnd not one of them aware<\/p>\n<p>The people are kept in the dark<br \/>\nThey too are unaware<br \/>\nA bit like fukushima<br \/>\nRadiation everywhere<br \/>\nBut the Japanese don&#8217;t know this<br \/>\nAnd nobody can tell<br \/>\nThem they are living on a time bomb<br \/>\nA conduit to hell<\/p>\n<p>They talk up their traditions<br \/>\nTheir need to eat the meat<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t worry about the mercury<br \/>\nRemember its a treat<br \/>\nAnd treats can be toxic<br \/>\nBut no matter it is whale<br \/>\nAnd the world has banned us killing them<br \/>\nSo its for research our trail<\/p>\n<p>Leads into the sancturies<br \/>\nChased by sea shepherd&#8217;s crew<br \/>\nAnd they are slaughtered anyway<br \/>\nThats what japan must do<br \/>\nThe meet today<br \/>\nThe meet today was boisterous<br \/>\nLots of klaxon horns<br \/>\nThe police I note were wearing ear plugs<br \/>\nFinally it dawns<\/p>\n<p>On them and in the embassy<br \/>\nThat we mean business we<br \/>\nWill never stop protesting<br \/>\nUntil they stop it in Taiji<br \/>\nThe police today were friendly<br \/>\nThey came across the street<br \/>\nAnd mingled and they joined in<br \/>\nSome have got huge feet<br \/>\nTall all shapes and sizes<br \/>\nBeards and tattoo&#8217;s too<br \/>\nWe made a lot of noise today<br \/>\nWhich is what we are there to do<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese seem adamant<br \/>\nThey are going to carry on<br \/>\nThey are going kill the dolphins<br \/>\nTill all of them are gone<br \/>\nAll their playful temperaments<br \/>\nAll their wondrous joy<br \/>\nThe Japanese will kill it off<br \/>\nWith the means that they employ<\/p>\n<p>Today you couldn&#8217;t say a lot of visitors<br \/>\nCame to the embassy I think we do<br \/>\nPut them off so business is disrupted<br \/>\nAnd that shows that we are doing stuff<br \/>\nAnd thats what its about<br \/>\nTokyo will realise this too<\/p>\n<p>Its didn&#8217;t rain the sun came out<br \/>\nA bit too so that was good<br \/>\nLots and lots of traffic<br \/>\nThen of course it should<br \/>\nBe busy all around there<br \/>\nHyde Corner and the rest<br \/>\nAnother demo over<br \/>\nFor noise one of the best<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outside the embassy was cordoned off And the middle section too Supposedly health and safety That is what they do Contain us in this elongated box So we don&#8217;t stray 400 or so protestors Were there to mark the day &hellip; 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