Consumers' global mass protest: They insist on linking inalienable rights to consumer products and services as well.

In a certainly unexpected turn of events, there were mass protests held all over the world today. They surprised everyone, including governments, corporations and local police. This was because of the single unified purpose behind all of these protestors regardless of geographical distance, and massive socio-economic and cultural differences. They were protesting for their extended consumer rights.

In a single worldwide petition filed with over 500 major consumer-dependent corporations and local and national government departments, they made specific demands that they insisted should be incorporated in forthcoming products. Their drive, the petition said, was driven by "a common angst with roots in using under-designed products and services". The "need of the hour", the petition stressed, was evident with the "clearly massive and worldwide scale" of the protest. Placards read: Our unity is irrepressible. You can get away with nothing this time.

The on ground response of the protestors rang the same tone. When reporters in all places of protest asked them how the uprising was so spontaneous across distances, and point-to-point similar with demands, they cited the actual universal lack of empathy in consumer products and offerings worldwide. They all alleged a conspiracy to deprive the human race of genuine joy and enhanced interaction and living, further creating the need to be hooked on consumer giants' products and services which they never intend to satiate.

In at least 10 capital cities of major nations, there are, presently ongoing, walks to the Parliament. Each set of demonstrators have a draft charter that will ensure consumer rights get their place in the norms of production and society. There is, even, a growing demand for UN recognition, and initiation, of such a universal charter. We asked people if a free market can be dictated, some of the questioned being sworn practising capitalists and capitalism evangelists. They said that, while it was a contradictory notion to start with, it was a necessary one. On whether it will stop the market from riding on prevalent winds to the glory of opportunistic fortune, notwithstanding any set of consequences such things may cause, however horrendous, they agreed that it will and were open to a further debate on the topic. According to them, competition inspires, and sometimes kills - but survival is so bleh! You may as well die to live in prosperity than live a menial, and apparently unhappy, life that has no competition that will enable you to prosper. And, as with the last point of view, it is also open to debate on enaction so as to keep it balanced.

In this ever increasing and volatile situation, protestors were asked about the equivalency of their demands to other social demands like the right to education for all, access to basic and universal healthcare, the equal rights of men and women, modern day slave labour and the stringency of law against child abuse. They said the world was growing, and this protest adds to that list a new issue which needs to equally addressed. At the same time, they were absolutely clueless about how the latest iPhone, 8G, the amazing new deals from private banks and other products and offers from such capitalistic free market players could help the beneficiaries of the other issues on the list. They did admit, though, that there was some scope in the concept and it was "yet to be explored".

Such optimism was rampant at all these protests, our reporters said. Apparently, only with such attitude, and of course a little more than a pinch of salt, anything is possible seemed the protestors' mantra.