Alan Johnston - what can we do?

ps…........the save alan johnston sites are crap….....

Posted about 1 year ago by willster

I sent the standard email that was sent round in an email to all the NUJ members. Other than that I am not sure what we can do on a more direct-action level.

Posted about 1 year ago by Beagleskin

Can we sink a certain boat tomorrow night in protest? ho ho ho

Posted about 1 year ago by willster

Stop buying Jaffas?

Posted about 1 year ago by purpaboo

Organise an Alan Johnston FCL Meet-up and Random Gig Crash bash? Bet that would help.

Posted about 1 year ago by Juvey

well we could do a fundraiser sort of thing, but then I’d get all drunk and spend the money on pizza and tramps on the way home…......and I started out so seriously.

Purpabooboo, give me your conspiracy theory on this please….........

Posted about 1 year ago by willster tipped with 1K

No really – you can sign the petition and put the button on your blog. The details are here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/04/how_you_can_help.html

Posted about 1 year ago by comradem

That really is shit, isn’t it. Oooh, putting a picture of him on my blog will really show those pesky hostage takers…............ thanks for deepening my frustration…......

bloody bollocks campaign

Posted about 1 year ago by willster

Look Willster, I really wish I could tell you where the Jaish Al Islam live so you could go there, shoot em up and rescue the man himself, but it just isn’t like that.

And no, you putting the button on your blog is not going to spring anyone any time soon. But militant groups have an awareness of public relations these days. And anything that keeps the issue in the public eye increases the chance that he will get out alive. That includes signing a petition and putting his mug on your website, which is why the BBC started this campaign. The thing about public pressure is that it relies on co-ordinated collective action, not some sort of vague one-man protest.

Sorry you feel so frustrated, but then again it isn’t you being held hostage, so – well actually I’m not really that sorry then.

Posted about 1 year ago by comradem

Fuck me, yet another new feature. You really can’t go away for any time at all can you.

willies

Posted about 1 year ago by Juvey

As Sydney Youngblood said “all we can do is sit and wait”.

Unless you have any ties to Islamic terrorist organizations.

Posted about 1 year ago by jamespo

We could, of course, campaign to stop all EU aid to Hamas…

Posted about 1 year ago by devilskitchen

comradem, good point, and I broadly agree. Cheers. Rumour has it in my rumour mill that the Jaish Al Islam is simply one of the bigger Palestinian clans which is angling for a fat ransom…......... Still think a blog ad is dodgy…........

i wish i understood this situation more dammit

Posted about 1 year ago by willster

but devil, I’m very partial to Hamas, especially with lemon, olive oil and pitta heh heh heh

i can be such a twat i get on my own nerves

Posted about 1 year ago by willster

There’s a bunch of balaclavas and armalites we can get on the cheap now. Direct action’s the only way forward.

war huh what is it good for technological innovation and getting rid of dicks actually

Posted about 1 year ago by esotericbadger

badger, let’s go. What’s happened to the SAS, I ask you? What about Steven Seagal? Lou Gossett Junior? Where have all the heroes gone? No more heroes anymore….....yes, I’m singing….. I still don’t think the hostage takers are sitting around looking at blogs to see if anyone is talking about them, though. I’m still worried.

free alan not pottytime

Posted about 1 year ago by willster

Just as well really, or they’d know we were coming. Can we do it in a sort of comedy-adventure way? You might be able to pull off the full Flashheart derring do, but I think more effective results might be got by tactics last seen in ‘Jewel of the Nile’. I’ll be DeVito, if you like.

Posted about 1 year ago by esotericbadger

Good news! Well, he’s still alive at least…

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d84507de-1013-11dc-96d3-000b5df10621.html

Posted about 1 year ago by esotericbadger

But they don’t know how old the tape is. Still, my athiest prayers must be paying off. And I still hope he’s home very soon.

Posted about 1 year ago by willster

There you go. It worked.

Posted about 1 year ago by comradem