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Today was a fine day for freedom, seeing as it did all those baseless allegations against Damian Green dismissed. It’s trite to say that this must be a huge weight off Green’s shoulders, what with this nonsense having dragged on over Christmas, the new year and Easter.
This blog, like others such as The Freedom Association, have been coloured green and displaying TYC’s ‘Support Damian Green’ ribbon every day since November 2008 when he was arrested – some six months. Mission accomplished, I think we can stand down now and return to our regular masthead.
Is Her Majesty getting in on our act and showing solidarity with Damian Green?
(Picture credit: The Sun)
Our Green Ribbon Campaign continues to gain traction online with flagship British political blogger ConservativeHome now sporting it. We’re pleased to see the blog that set in motion the chain of events that led to our creating the Ribbon now displaying it.
Our traffic is showing that the campaign is resonating far beyond young conservatives, and is being picked up by more established blogs, as well as simply aggrieved citizens keen to show their displeasure, and the literally ‘unwarranted’ police action against Damian Green. And who can blame them, after today’s dismal speech by Speaker Michael Martin? Is that the best they could come up with? If it’s the truth, why did it take so long for it to be explained? Keep the pressure on them, readers.
Is your blog supporting Damian Green? Let us know.
Our campaign in support of Damian Green – ‘The Green Ribbon‘ has come on leaps and bounds in the past 24 hours. Already leading young centre-right bloggers such as Tory Bear, Students for Freedom and London Spin have gone Green – have you? We’d be delighted to see more blogs joining the Green scene – let us know if yours has!
Yesterday we launched a campaign through our Facebook presence encouraging people to change their profile pictures to the Green ribbon. We invited about 400 people, but within hours that figure had double, and at the time of writing well over 1,000 had been invited – a testament to the potency of viral campaigning. We’ve been receiving messages of support for what appears to be a campaign which is crossing party political lines and uniting all freedom-lovers.
Have you joined us yet?
By pure coincidence Damian Green is the guest at a reception being hosted by Hammersmith Conservatives in their Fulham Reach ward (which, also coincidentally, is the ward where Paul Bristow, recently selected to fight Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, is a councillor.)
Details as follows:
An evening with Damian Green MP Shadow Minister for Immigration, from 7.30 pm onwards, 137 Claxton Grove, London W6 8HB.
Courtesy of Richard MacLure
Tickets: £15.00
Includes wine and snacks
To book, please call 020 7385 1002.
As the storm over Downing Street continues to rumble following the Stalinesque detention and questioning of Damian Green MP, plans are afoot to continue to keep the pressure on the Government for answers and to keep the issue in the public eye.
It all began with a comment on ConservativeHome.
“Maybe this will be my last comment regarding politics. I don’t know. If elected officials are not safe why should I assume I am? My husband is on his third tour of the gulf. My brother in law is on the Afghanistan Pakistani boarder. My other brother in law is now partially paralyzed for life due to an injury sustained while training for duty in Iraq. My nephew is finding it hard to integrate back into society after seeing his buddy blown up in the truck next to him while on duty over there. Freedom and democracy are very important to me, I guess I can say they are actually a part of who I am and feel blessed to be born into a part of the world that understands the importance of these things. As far as I was aware, my husband, and other family members have been putting themselves in danger, some have become injured physically, some mentally,and others whom I have never met have lost their lives fighting for the rights of people in other countries. Fighting to allow them to also have the right to hold their governments and leaders to account, without fear of death, arrest or imprisonment. So for me this isn’t about Labour or Conservative or which party is better, this has become a really serious and worrying situation. And I am frightened over this and over the future if this is the way things are headed. What to do? I do not know. If verbal questions and protests aren’t answered then a visual protest of some sort. Green ties, ribbons and armbands,worn by people from all parties in defence of Damian Green. Worn until questions are answered, and until civil liberties and freedom from opression of government are restored.
Posted by: meli | November 29, 2008 at 23:35
Wow meli you said it
Posted by: Michael Booth | November 29, 2008 at 23:50
Meli suggests green ties, ribbons and armbands,worn by people from all parties in defence of Damian Green.
Brilliant – editor what about promoting that on this site?
Posted by: Lindsay Jenkins | November 30, 2008 at 00:15″
Jenkins forwarded the exchange to Simon Richards, Director of The Freedom Association, who took up the torch with the novel idea of turning The Freedom Association’s site green as an act of solidarity.
How far could this go? We mused last month about November 5th becoming a national holiday to mark British liberty, freedom and justice. So we have the day, and now we have the colour.
In turn, TYC saw this and thought, why not take it one step further? Our colour scheme is terribly cumbersome, so we knocked up this poster (well, everyone else is producing great posters lately it seems) and sent it to The Freedom Association. It also looks great on your Facebook/Myspace/Bebo etc, by the way…
We understand that plans are also afoot in Parliament for MPs to wear green ribbons during the Queen’s Speech to signal their disquiet. I’d be great to see activists in their private capacity as concerned citizens sporting them as well (a bit of green ribbon and a safety pin wouldn’t cost the earth!), on the street, in the work place etc, making people stop and ask ‘Why are you wearing that?’.
With the latest comment on ConHome showing that the momentum behind his initiative is growing, are YOU with us?
YBF’s Director of Operations, Christian May, has penned his thoughts on the egregious Damian Green affair, in which he reiterates the Young Britons’ Foundations’ commitment to the indivisible, inalienable principles of freedom and liberty, and stresses Benjamin Franklin’s timeless maxim that “They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security“.
His coda builds to this rallying call to arms for all activists:
Now is the time when we must say “no more.” For when all is said and done, who really wins from this state of affairs? We may lie in bed at night and ‘feel safe’ from terrorism, but what is that feeling worth when it has been paid for by surrendering our basic rights and values? Bank accounts seized, assets frozen, councils spying on us, elderly protesters man handled, ID cards looming, police raiding Parliament with impunity, emails intercepted… and all for what? Security? The ability to continue living in a free country?
My urgent advice to activists is this: collect your thoughts. Talk to each other. Make a plan, and then stand up and fight with all the passion and urgency of a nation under attack.
Young Britons’ Foundation Chief Executive Donal Blaney has come up with this fantastic poster in support of Damian Green and against the ever greater erosion of British civil liberties under Labour.
Show your suppport for Damian Green and our cherished freedoms – change your facebook picture today.
