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veterans - is just actually a rightist manipu-lative construction, trying to justify a self-in-terested war of the elite. Oh, and I purposly haven’t mentioned the second world war because any intelligent person knows that it really had nothing to do with humanitarian intervention, that was just a guise for obvious imperialism - everyone knows that. You’re so ignorant and co-ercable.’

Cooper might not have written ‘signed, Vice President’, but the Rev.Williams knew who he was - what his title is. Cooper didn’t bow out of the offer graciously, he took the op-portunity to teach the Reverend a lesson; explain to him how his version of history (with a little ‘h’, no doubt) is so superior, so wwell sourced. Cooper’s response showed no respect for the dead, just a contept for the people who commemorate them, and the rituals by which they do so. Finally, not con-tent with his ‘lesson’ being limited to the uneducated Reverand, he posted his re-sponse on his blog, for all to see and learn from.

Not once did Cooper suggest someone else would take his place on our behalf, not once did he mention the people he purports to represent. No, Cooper’s response was about one person only - Daniel Cooper, and how much more intelligent he is than us. Too busy giving the Reverend a history lesson Cooper forgot to do his job - lesson Cooper forgot to do his job -

“We should instead remember the inter-nationalists and socialists. We should remember the...poets and satirists...”

Of course, this is our fault. I didn’t vote in the elections - did you? No. Less than one percent did. This years manifestos for ‘Presi-dent’ were full of words like ‘liberation’,‘anti-fascism’ and ‘constitutional reform’. The root of this is that the only people who care enough to run are so highly politicised they don’t represent anyone other than their left-wing friends, who vote for them and canvas us outside Strand. Where were words like ‘opening hours’, ‘librabries’, ‘r‘resources’, ‘exams’ or ‘teaching’?

Cooper must have thought that what he doing was so cleverly informed; ‘What you don’t get Rev is that all those countless cere-monies you‘ve presided over all these years - with all those crying widows and wounded

Internet Activism: What dopeople online have to say?

ULU has the potential to be a voice for huge number of students - and once again has been hijacked by a minority who seem to think that the sacrifice made by millions of soldiers in conflicts for free-dom should be trivialised, turned into publicity and sensationalised.The view on this group is, at best, misguided and at worst a com-plete inaccuracy. ULU you should be ashamed and to paraphrase the ideology that you so worship "students of the University of London unite" against this travesty.

The whole point of our outrage is not so much your political stance, but the fact you refuse to lay a wreath which represents an apolitical mark of respect not a political statement of any kind. You are the president of ULU the voting system of which is dubious at best but lets not go there, you are suppose to represent us all, and refusing to lay a wa wreath I'd imagine alienates and fails to repre-sent far more students than it succeeds in repre-

I see no justification of Dan's actions other than to give maximum publicity to his own bizarre views. Showing a com-plete lack of respect to those who have died and ignoring the opinions of the majority of ULU members...

What I don't think is right - because it isn't fair - is to start saying that Dan should resign for having a partic-ular view and having acted on it. This is the nature of holding a position in a union. As a ULU officer, you don't have constant access to polling or referenda. You have a Senate (one vote per College), and if you're lucky you have one sabbatical colleague. Dan had no susuch luck, and was on his own.

Nothing in the history of ULU seems to have fired up as much debate as Cooper’s letter, so what did people have to say on Facebook

about Cooper’s reasoning?