Facebook groups
I’d like to thank everyone who has signed up to the Facebook group so far. I have seen a couple of less-than-supportive comments from people, so I’d just like to mention a couple of things:
This group is for an expression of public feeling regarding the curtailment of civil liberties by the current UK government, and one minister in particular.
Time and time again, writing to your MP simply doesn’t achieve results; it merely results a polite letter thanking for your time (and if you’re lucky, a couple of prints of existing departmental webpages restating their position).
Calling on people to march and protest in person is all very well, but it negates to mention:
1) People may not have the time to join a formal organised protest, due to family commitments, work, etc
2) People are actually scared of protesting in public, because of EXACT REMOVAL OF THOSE LIBERTIES that this group has been established to discuss.
The “Comments” pages of The Register are not the place to get into a discussion about how to protest about a situation you don’t like. Please have a look at the Facebook group, read it and if you wish to be part of the debate, either positively or negatively, then please contribute.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=46271966027