h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Here is some more info on the Sainsbury and Woolworths cowardess.

Also, some info on a Danish story about some cartoonists who did some Mohammed cartoons and now have various death threats hanging over them.

http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/

For people looking at this after December 2005 click on the archive link as the front page only shows the current months news.

Well I am gonna bang out some letters of complaint tomorrow.

I wish I had the "techspertise" to make a website because I think there needs to be a concerted "christian voice" style campaign against "christian voice".

'Ferretvoice' representing the UK's squeaking majority.

Ferrettbadger, if you wander over to http://www.34sp.com you can rent a sensible amount of webspace for £15 a year, plus £10 for two years use of a .co.uk or .org.uk domain name. (£20 for two years of a .com or .org)

If you really want to do it, leave a message on my PS and I'll point you to good sources of free content, images etc.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4514748.stm

Equity - the actor's union - is protesting about the removal of the dvds from sale.

(P.S Did anyone else spot Satan (David Bedella) in Batman Begins as the waiter who asks Bruce Wayne to leave the Hotel?) >popcorn>

<<'Ferretvoice' representing the UK's squeaking majority.>>

shouldn't that be *min*ority?

Rodents: its like the 'silent majority' see, only they squeak, and steal your food, and they're real.

MVC the DVD retailer have gone into administration , on the plus side I managed to pick up JStO for £14 on the bargain shelf this afternoon.

I'm quite flabbergasted that huge corporations such as Sainsbury's and Woolworths would end up giving way to Christian splinter groups threatening them with . . . what?

I guess I just don't understand the 'what' here. *What* could they actually threaten them with? Not buying their product? And telling all their Christian weirdo friends not to buy their product?

What were Sainsbury's and Woolworths afraid of? A massive ban on all their products by . . . what? Some weirdo extremist Christian cult members? Who perhaps always shop at Tescos?

Truly, the mind reels . . .


az

Imagine Lord Sainsbury:

"Please, just leave me alone, stop sending me these emails ".

You're right, it doesn't quite wash does it?

It shows you the anonymous power of the internet. Stephen Green gay-hating-bigot-and t*ss-pot-in-chief sets up a hate-spewing god-loving jesus-I-love-you-so-much-I-want-to-have-your-babies website. Gets about a thousand people on board with the same mind set. Is fairly quiet until JStO appears and then feeds on the publicity that the media gave him rather than the media leaving him to shout into the wind on the internet version of a street corner in Hove.

Most likely the letters to the stores were similar to the ones that went to the cancer charity about picketting, dragging names through courts, no Christians shopping at their stores ever again etc with a few threats about blasphemy laws etc and the lilly-livered ex's at the stores (who will know very little about how little Stephen Green is) bent over to avoid 'bad publicity'.

The problem is that the actual outcry has been bigger about them bending over and taking it. They have probably done more damage to their reputations than if they had told Green to go stick his views where he doesn't like gays sticking things.

Others have joined in to:

http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/

Posting for 21/Dec/2005

"A Christian bookshop owner in Southend has joined forces with Stephen Green to try to stop JS: TO being shown at the Cliffs Pavilion.

Paul Slennett, of Southend Christian Books, told the Southend Echo,

"It makes me feel sick. To a Christian, Jesus Christ is the most precious person on Earth. To see him dressed in a nappy saying he’s slightly gay, it’s abhorrent. I don’t want to take the council to court, but I don’t want to them to put it on."

Slennett is supporting Christian Voice in its expensive blasphemy prosecution against Avalon, the Cliffs Pavilion, and Southend Council. His group has also been leafletting theatre goers during the busy pantomime season.

The council are showing no signs of backing down,"

With Green taking everyone to court for blasphemy he must be either getting cash from somewhere or just threatening a lot of people.

Just wondering how a band of eco-warrior types lambasting Sainsbury's about 'un-ecological' um . . . eggs, chickens? would be able to bring Sainsbury's to its knees.

It would never happen. Right?

Yet a few crazy Christians managed it.

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Both Sainsburys and Woolworth's have enough money behind them that I am appalled they gave into this Christian crap. Why? The majority of their customers are not Christian. They wouldn't actually lose any sales by selling the Jerry Springer dvd. Because most people wouldn't give a flying. They'd walk past a whole wall of Jerry Springer dvd's on special offer just like they'd walk past anything else on offer they weren't interested in.

I grew up in the suburbs. I think I have a fair grasp of how people living in these places think - they mostly want to shop at their convenience and not get involved in *issues*. So these were not the people who complained about the Jerry Springer dvd being sold, it was simply Stephen Green and his band of un-merry men.

Totally p*sses me off, man.

az

An excellent review of the Opera now back up in Edinburgh.

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=332002006