September 6, 2010 by Admin
Following the release of Tony Blair’s long-anticipated autobiography ‘A Journey’, Facebook members have gone all out to disrupt sales of the memoirs. In a bid to publicise criticism of the former Prime Minister’s stance on the Iraq war, a new Facebook page has been set up encouraging people to sabotage sales of the book.
The group on the social networking site is termed ‘Subversively move Tony Blair’s memoirs to the crime section in bookshops’, with a view to getting people to acknowledge his activities in the Iraq war, which a number of people have described as being tantamount to war crime. Thousands of people have flocked to join the online group, and have signed up to wreak havoc in bookstores across the UK, moving Blair’s book in to the Crime section of the books.
By mid-afternoon yesterday, the Facebook page has over five thousand followers, all of whom pledged to support the move to brand Blair as a war criminal in bookshops. The page suggested that the movement would encourage people to think twice about how the book was categorised in stores.
The group, set up by a student called Euan Booth, was set up to make a quiet and polite protest against Blair’s Iraq activity. Initially Booth confessed that he wanted to stain copies of the memoirs with fake blood, but decided that a peaceful protest would be far more effective. Booth stated: “It is mischievous, but no one is coming to any harm. It is a very English way of voicing your opinion and is meant to be a bit of fun.”
“I was absolutely livid that this bloke could still be walking around and lying to the British people. The war was based on a complete pack of lies and we are still paying the price of that. If it gets back to him in some small way that this is what people think about him, I will be pleased. He hasn’t profited from the book but he has a channel to voice his opinions about this. I don’t and I’m trying to take that back.”
The protest follows a more aggressive stance taken by a number of demonstrators when Blair attended his first signing at an Eason’s bookshop in Dublin, on Saturday. Blair was pelted with eggs and shoes as people voiced their anger with the former Prime Minister.
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