The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #155997 Message #3677425
Posted By: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
15-Nov-14 - 12:50 PM
Thread Name: No man's land protest
Subject: RE: No man's land protest
Right from the start I was under the error of thinking this petition originated directly from STW coalition HQ.
A few days ago I went back to stopwar.org and re- read more carefully
and then realised the petition was actually set up by just one bloke,
Bob Banks, of Derbyshire.
Stopwar.org is a seriously meaningful pressure group with heavy weight credentials.
I haven't a clue who Bob from Derbyshire is...
"Supporters of the Coalition, whether organisations or individuals, will of course be free to develop their own analyses and organise their own actions.
But there will be many important occasions when united initiatives around broad stop the war slogans
can mobilise the greatest numbers."
Personally, I'm still not convinced of the worth of this petition.
At further risk of sticking my neck out as an irritating voice of dissent.....
Call me overcautious, call me cynical, call me a ***,
call me whatever you like...
But awkward questions really do need to be asked.....
Who is Bob Banks, of Derbyshire, anyone know ?
What are his real motives and objectives for this petition ?
What actually does he hope to achieve ?
What's in it for him ?
.. and please, let's not get into any petulant "If you're not with us you're against us"
" if you don't support this petition you must be a pro war nationalist militarist...etc..." nonsense.