Re: Is civil disobedience justified?
Duncan Heenan wrote:
> "Craig M" <snowmanmagnet@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >
> > Intrigued by your suggestion that BN should take a lead here - do have
> > any thoughts why they haven't or seem reluctant to do so?
>
> Yes. BN aren't really interested in taking naturism out of the ghettos of
> Sun Clubs and officially approved 'naturist' beaches. So they see no need to
> challenge the law, or at least the presumptions which underlie the police
> attitude that public nudity is always wrong. BN is in the comfortable rut
> consisting of sun club members whose lives consist of summer weekends hiding
> from their 'normal' lives in sun clubs, and keeping quiet about it. It is
> not a lifestyle to them it is a hobby, of which they are slightly ashamed.
> If the BN mindset could be changed it might become a serious campaigning
> organisation and gain respect (and more members) from those who want the
> freedom to be naked where and when they choose.
I don't doubt that there's more than a grain of truth is what you say
about BN here. And I would entirely agree that the change in direction
that you propose would if nothing else clarify what BN is meant to be
for.
But where I'm less certain is on your suggestion that such a move would
generate more members. Surely, any radical change in the direction and
purpose of an organisation risks alienating the present members who
might leave as a consequence -by whom I mean those weekend sun club
members you desribe. And there is no guarantee that any decline in
numbers will be compensated by new people attracted by the new
campaiging manifesto.
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