GAAW at it again

Steyr

http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/30631

Blair Switch Project — GAAW encourage people to move Blair’s book in shops
Galway Advertiser, September 09, 2010.

By Kernan Andrews

When Bertie Ahern published his autobiography many felt it would be better suited to the fantasy section of bookshops rather than to non-fiction.

Tony Blair helped bring peace to Northern Ireland, but his alliance with George W Bush brought death and destruction to Iraq, so similarly there are those who feel his book would not be out of place in the crime or horror sections.

The Galway Alliance Against War is now calling on anyone who objects to the stance Mr Blair took on Iraq to “indulge in a bit of fun subversion” in any bookstore selling Blair’s memoirs.

“We want people to move the book from where it is on display to the more appropriate crime or horror sections,” said PRO Niall Farrell.

However Mr Farrell acknowledged Mr Blair’s “constructive part” in the peace process.

“He did not have the ideological hang-ups that prevented the Tories – and also Fine Gael – from engaging with Irish Republicans,” he said. “He could plainly see it was in Britain’s interest to talk with Sinn Féin and the IRA.”

Nonetheless Mr Farrell remains very critical of the former British prime minister’s actions in the Middle East.

“We cannot ignore Blair’s role in the slaughter in Iraq,” he said. “While he worked for reconciliation in the North, he has turned Iraq, the most secular state in the Arab world, into a sectarian hell.”

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Any bookstore owners here want to reply to this shower of numptys? If I owned a shop I certainely would not want anybody messing around with any of my P.O.S/Displays.

McDougal

Why do you love Blair so much?

I doubt it's that he likes Blair, more that he hates the GAAW - and I am inclined to agree with him. Things like this are just ignorant and will make the staff members jobs that bit more annoying - it's not their fault that this book is being stocked. It's also petty and childlike.

Steyr

McDougal wrote: »

Why do you love Blair so much?

Because he is soooooooooo Dreamy...:pac: :rolleyes:

McDougal

Deleted User wrote: »

I doubt it's that he likes Blair, more that he hates the GAAW - and I am inclined to agree with him. Things like this are just ignorant and will make the staff members jobs that bit more annoying - it's not their fault that this book is being stocked. It's also petty and childlike.

It's a peaceful form of protest and a little bit of fun. No need to get up in arms about it.

McDougal

McDougal wrote: »

It's a peaceful form of protest and a little bit of fun. No need to get up in arms about it.

Is it fun for the staff members? Is it fun for the people wanting to buy the book? It's something a child would do but it's being advocated by fully grown adults. It's quite pathetic really.

McDougal

Deleted User wrote: »

Is it fun for the staff members? Is it fun for the people wanting to buy the book? It's something a child would do but it's being advocated by fully grown adults. It's quite pathetic really.

Jesus whatever

Write a letter to the Sunday Independent if you're so worried

Steyr

McDougal wrote: »

Jesus whatever

Toys gone from your pram?:D

biko

I'm neither here nor there with GAAW but that's just childish. It's not like it'll help any, besides bringing some attention to GAAW and Tony's involvement with George.
A publicity stunt is all.

Predalien

Great, another thread about the GAAW. I'm beginning to think that these threads should be prohibited by the forum charter.

Redhairedguy

Have they nothing better to be at? :rolleyes:

jenno86

Tony Blair has a book out? I didn't know this!


Thanks GAAW for alerting me to this!

Steyr

jenno86 wrote: »

Tony Blair has a book out? I didn't know this!


Thanks GAAW for alerting me to this!

Buy it now!:D

galwayrush

jenno86 wrote: »

Tony Blair has a book out? I didn't know this!


Thanks GAAW for alerting me to this!

The protests cetainly brought the book to my attention, going to buy it tomorrow.

kippy

This is just daft - seriously. I'm not particularly a Blair fan and don't totally agree with the way he went about things but seriously????? All thats gonna happen here is people get evicted from bookstores and/or a heated situation develops in a book store with some over enthuastic "Supporter of GAAW" - which to be honest is highly ironic.

ronnie3585

McDougal wrote: »

Jesus whatever

Typical response from the GAAW. They spout nothing but baseless conjecture and leftie propaganda, then when they are invited to engage in any type of meaningful discourse they are simply unable.

kippy

Just wondering what is GAAW's actual agenda.
What wars are they against?

ErnieBert

Love him or loathe him, Blair was instrumental in the Peace process in Northern Ireland.

I don't care for the guy, I won't be buying his book but I respect what he did in the North.

Krieg

Oh moving a book into the fiction section, how ****ing original.

anyone up for following the GAAW and anytime they move the book move it back?

Fozzie Bear

McDougal wrote: »

...... and a little bit of fun. No need to get up in arms about it.

Hmmm, the Salthill airshow was a bit of fun too. Who got up in arms (or should that be balloons?) over that?

inisboffin

Deleted User wrote: »

anyone up for following the GAAW and anytime they move the book move it back?

You might have more than GAAW to follow round the shop! Just saw a link to a fb page asking for people to move the book to the crime section - over 11 thousand fans on it.

11,000 people? Pfft - that means following around a lot of people. Don't know if I can be that arsed.

dolphin city

brilliant.

must check easons at lunchtime to see if their endeavors have been successfull

CrowdedHouse

dolphin city wrote: »

brilliant.

I thought it was a great idea too

PopeBuckfastXVI

It's a bit lame imo, it's not going to affect Tony Blair, and it's not going to bring any dead Iraqi's back to life. Perhaps they should concentrate their efforts on raising money for Iraqi war orphans or something a bit more constructive than annoying the workers of Easons and making their job a little more difficult.

McDougal

PopeBuckfastXVI wrote: »

It's a bit lame imo, it's not going to affect Tony Blair, and it's not going to bring any dead Iraqi's back to life. Perhaps they should concentrate their efforts on raising money for Iraqi war orphans or something a bit more constructive than annoying the workers of Easons and making their job a little more difficult.

Why don't you raise money for war orphans?

PopeBuckfastXVI

McDougal wrote: »

Why don't you raise money for war orphans?

Who says I don't?

PopeBuckfastXVI

Also, what good does this action do for Galway?

Someone intending to buy the book goes into Easons, can't find it, buys it on Amazon, money leaves Galway, leaves Ireland, local business and it's employee's suffer.

Epic win book movers!

WallyGUFC

McDougal wrote: »

Why don't you raise money for war orphans?

Hi Niall

inisboffin

That FB page I mentioned doesn't single out a particular bookshop, it's all bookshops. And it looks like the page was started in England.

McDougal

PopeBuckfastXVI wrote: »

Also, what good does this action do for Galway?

Someone intending to buy the book goes into Easons, can't find it, buys it on Amazon, money leaves Galway, leaves Ireland, local business and it's employee's suffer.

Epic win book movers!

It's nothing but attention seeking to get into the media. I doubt even 2 or 3 books will be moved. But if you think moving books will destroy the local economy then that's your opinion.

kippy

McDougal wrote: »

It's nothing but attention seeking to get into the media. I doubt even 2 or 3 books will be moved. But if you think moving books will destroy the local economy then that's your opinion.

It gives Galway a seriously bad name. Its not the kind of thing Galway should be getting into the media for.
GAAW gave the place a bad enough name with their antics over the air show.

biko

Well it's not like anyone has ever mentioned GAAW to me when I said I live in Galway, so I'm not sure about the "bad name" part.
Then again I don't move in aviation circles where I'm sure it's discussed a lot.

However Galway is known nationwide as a hippie town so moving books about fits perfectly into an already established image.

McDougal

biko wrote: »

Well it's not like anyone has ever mentioned GAAW to me when I said I live in Galway, so I'm not sure about the "bad name" part.
Then again I don't move in aviation circles where I'm sure it's discussed a lot.

However Galway is known nationwide as a hippie town so moving books about fits perfectly into an already established image.

Yeah the hippie town that elected one of Irelands two PDs in the last election

McDougal

kippy wrote: »

It gives Galway a seriously bad name. Its not the kind of thing Galway should be getting into the media for.
GAAW gave the place a bad enough name with their antics over the air show.

Gives Galway a bad name? You need to get out more

When this thread is finished, can we put a ban on the GAAW being mentioned on this forum? I really think we've discussed everything we can about them in a rational manner.

Mollie Breathna

Deleted User wrote: »

When this thread is finished, can we put a ban on the GAAW being mentioned on this forum? I really think we've discussed everything we can about them in a rational manner.

How about some irrational debate then?
How about some uncalled-for remarks about old unreconstructed Stalinists/Provo supporters having a hard neck describing themselves as Peaceniks?
No?
I'll get my coat so.

dolphin city

kippy wrote: »

It gives Galway a seriously bad name. Its not the kind of thing Galway should be getting into the media for.
GAAW gave the place a bad enough name with their antics over the air show.

LOL you sound like michael crowe "oh don't highlight the poisonous water making people sick lads, it will give Galway a bad name".

hilarious.

kippy

McDougal wrote: »

Gives Galway a bad name? You need to get out more

I get out plenty, more than most GAAW members I would suggest.

kippy

dolphin city wrote: »

LOL you sound like michael crowe "oh don't highlight the poisonous water making people sick lads, it will give Galway a bad name".

hilarious.

Do you not think that GAAW is a negative side to Galway?
I mean what exactly do they stand for?

McDougal

kippy wrote: »

Do you not think that GAAW is a negative side to Galway?
I mean what exactly do they stand for?

WTF? Go and protest outside the strip club on Dominic St. if you want to express some right wing moral outrage and spare us your sh!te

dolphin city

kippy wrote: »

Do you not think that GAAW is a negative side to Galway?
I mean what exactly do they stand for?

no I don't think so at all.

I think the councillors and their playground bullying and scrapping does a lot more damage to galway. GAAW stands for what they and people like them think are injustices - fair play to them for not being afraid to voice them. If there were more people in the country like this then maybe we wouldn't be in the sh*t we are in now. Sadly tho we have become a country of lick a**es and would rather cower in the corner or pretend everythign is okay than to stand up and be counted.

Thankfully the day of the revolution is coming tho - people of ireland can't take much more sh*t being thrown at them.

Long live GAAW and anyone else that has the goonies to stand up for what they believe.

kippy

McDougal wrote: »

WTF? Go and protest outside the strip club on Dominic St. if you want to express some right wing moral outrage and spare us your sh!te

Eh,
What makes you think I am right wing? I dont even know what that means to be honest.
I gave a relatively straightforward opinion based on prior personal experience and asked a relatively straightforward question. I dont think it deserved a retort such as that.

kippy

dolphin city wrote: »

no I don't think so at all.

I think the councillors and their playground bullying and scrapping does a lot more damage to galway. GAAW stands for what they and people like them think are injustices - fair play to them for not being afraid to voice them. If there were more people in the country like this then maybe we wouldn't be in the sh*t we are in now. Sadly tho we have become a country of lick a**es and would rather cower in the corner or pretend everythign is okay than to stand up and be counted.

Thankfully the day of the revolution is coming tho - people of ireland can't take much more sh*t being thrown at them.

Long live GAAW and anyone else that has the goonies to stand up for what they believe.

I aint particularily against what they appear to stand for (in this particular instance anyway), as I mentioned earlier, just the ways and means they go about their business.
What they stand for in itself is a bit unclear to me.

McDougal

kippy wrote: »

Eh,
What makes you think I am right wing? I dont even know what that means to be honest.
I gave a relatively straightforward opinion based on prior personal experience and asked a relatively straightforward question. I dont think it deserved a retort such as that.

Why am I not suprised?

PopeBuckfastXVI

McDougal wrote: »

WTF? Go and protest outside the strip club on Dominic St. if you want to express some right wing moral outrage and spare us your sh!te

This didn't even remotely deal with the quoted post. It's just rude to a fellow poster. Another day I'd yellow card this, but instead I'll just issue a general warning. Keep it civil or keep out of it.

/moderation.

kippy

McDougal wrote: »

Why am I not suprised?

I've no idea to be honest.
You label me right wing, I have no idea what right wing is, how can I be right wing?

Redhairedguy

Redhairedguy wrote: »

Have they nothing better to be at? :rolleyes:

Only on that one day a month when they have to sign on.

Steyr

kippy wrote: »

Just wondering what is GAAW's actual agenda.
What wars are they against?

I personally believe it to be Anti-British/Anti-American/Anti-Israeli. Then again where were they when Saddam gassed the Kurds, or when Russia invaded Georgia, i never once seen a protest about that.

amiable

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