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June 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A mix of old and young, male and female, the crowd carried placards with slogans reading, “Don’t Jubilee’ve It” and “Citizen Not Subject” and “Keep calm and scrap the monarchy.”
On a nearby street, dozens of protesters stood outside a security barricade, blocked by private guards and Metropolitan police officers who kept the demonstrators from joining the group at City Hall. The satellite group seemed content to protest where they were.
Chants of “Monarchy out! Republic in!,” rang out against the revelry of nearby jubilee celebrations.
One particularly angry protester sang, “If you really hate the Queen, clap your hands,”.
“All of our leaders should be elected,” said protester Ray Silk, who came dressed for the rain in a windbreaker and hat. “People should not be appointed.”
For anti-monarchist Dave Esbester, it was the idea of celebrating Elizabeth’s 60-year reign that struck him as particularly egregious. “It’s about time we had an element of democracy in the situation,” he scoffed.
Graham Smith, the chief executive of Republic, said that the organization had scheduled their protest to coincide with the Queen’s river pageant to maximize the exposure of republicans.
“It’s really about speaking up for the millions of people in the country that are opposed to the monarchy, and putting the movement on the map,” he told TIME in a phone conversation, a week prior to the protest. “[It’s also] to say to everybody else, Look, think critically about this. Is 60 years with one head of state, without an election, something to celebrate in a democratic society?”
The republican movement in the U.K. is not new, but in recent years the group has had more occasions to protest than usual.
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