Demand for F15: Tony Blair Must Go!
ZeroZero | 07.02.2003 15:32
From an email:
>So,
>
>we know that Blair is lying through his teeth. We know that he's
>frightened of the unprecedented levels of public opposition to war.
>But he's backed himself into a corner and Blair will probably go
>ahead with it regardless of public opinion. Its like so many big
>popular campaigns, the government just won't back down to the rabble.
>
>And the weakness of our campaigns is that we're always campaigning
>negatively, we're always on their ground, talking about what they
>want to happen and what we want not to happen.
>
>I've often thought that what a lot of campaigns against things need
>is a positive goal, our own goal, to shift the battle on to our
>ground. The difficulty with this approach has often been that our
>alternatives (to roads, agribusiness, globalisation, and in this case
>war) often have to be, by necessity, somewhat complex. These are all
>complex issues and require complex solutions. Which makes it hard to
>shift the 'battle ground' of the debate as quickly as we want.
>
>Given the obvious lying and spin, and given tonight's revelations (on
>C4 News) that the UK govt dossier of 'evidence' against Iraq was
>(criminally) plagiarised from a handful of now obsolete academic
>papers (with numerous omissions and distortions) and not the result
>of intelligence work, and (pardon the ridiculously long sentences and
>over use of brackets) given Blair's pathetic performance on the
>Newsnight Special tonight, I get the impression that public opinion
>could be sympathetic to a new and very simple demand - that Tony
>Blair must resign as Prime Minister.
>
>Newspaper editors are saying that Blair is "losing the plot" that
>he's "out of touch" and simply won't listen, people giggled at him
>and took the piss on the Newsnight Special. He's looking very weak
>now especially after his volte face over The Lords, and I believe
>that large sections of the press would love a new way to draw blood.
>With enough people calling for it, enough banner-waving etc, we could
>open up a 'new front' in the public debate. Lets demand the bastard
>resigns and/or is impeached.
>
>I'd love to see him answer that demand.
>
>It'll only take a few minutes to write to your MP and/or No 10, and
>send an email to your mates asking them to do the same. Its not
>necessary (though it can only help) to go point by point through all
>the lies they've spun at us (in Gulf War One as well as this one) and
>all the issues they're simply failing to address. In my experience
>they simply don;t reply to difficult questions anyway. I think the
>political climate has changed. They've lied to us before, why on
>earth should we believe or even engage with the latest round of
>deception. And the majority knows it.
>
>So lets demand what we all want, that Blair goes. There'll be no war
>then.
>
>Shall we get the ball rolling?
>
>Chris
ZeroZero
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will it stop the war?
07.02.2003 16:58
j'boy
Every bit helps.
07.02.2003 17:13
Spring Hope
Yes, and more
07.02.2003 17:32
Yes, such moves would appear to be radical, and are from a particular point-of-view, but at another level they are not only practical but absolutely necessary if an escape from the current paradigm is the ultimate goal. But in order for any of this to happen Blair must go.
If the demonstrative will of the people regarding what will clearly be illegal aggression is not acted upon in what is supposed to be a democratic state (and even in an undemocratic state), then according to international law it is the DUTY of the people to enforce it on their leaders through the direct action of physically removing them using any means necessary. (This is spelled out in the Nuremberg Protocals.)
One thing is certain: The current state of affairs cannot be allowed to last much longer.
karlof1
Bliar must go
07.02.2003 17:59
If we get him to resign it would send a very strong signal to the US public and immensely strengthen the anti-war movement in the US.
We should threaten local Labour MPs that we'll be campaigning against them at the next elections if they can't stop the war.
war is not inevitable if we don't accept it.
pir
Bring him down!
07.02.2003 22:06
He is now looking more and more desparate to justify this war, he has now even resorted to scraping the barrell to present evidence to convince people and this time with that shameful new dossier he has sunk to new depths!
The chants on Feb 15th should be "Tony, Tony, Tony, Out, Out, Out" loud and clear!
Stuey
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Remove the lower levels of the pyramid..
07.02.2003 22:09
New Labour is essentially a proto-fascist party, and the bleating of the likes of the Galloways and Mahons merely amplify the total moribund uselessness of their positions.
They should get out of the party and get out of Parliament, perhaps to hold People's Forums elsewhere.
People of conscience should have nothing to do with the Blair cabal, but rather pull the rug from under.
Removing support from a system will undermine it. Demanding the resignation of the mutha at the top will achieve nothing.
dh
Get Rid of Tony Blair
08.02.2003 22:13
Julia Stein
Julia Stein