Great Marches of History

There’s been a lot of fuss about last week’s anti-Occupy Central protests, with reports emerging that people had been paid to attend the march. Why is everyone so concerned about this? These whingers have plainly never read a history book. As everyone knows, all of the great marches of history have been incentivized.

 

Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi embarked upon a 240-mile march to the coastal village of Dandi, where he collected salt as a gesture of civil disobedience against the British salt monopoly in colonial India. He was joined by a 2-mile-long string of followers, who had been promised a rice box at the end of the hike. Gandhi passed on his.

 

Thousands of Americans headed to the nation’s capital to hear the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his now legendary “I Have a Dream” speech. In fact, each of the attendees at the speech was given a per diem and had their parking validated.