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[YvonneMarshall]

Dear Alex,
 
A brief note to thank you for reading (in full) 
the  e-mail I sent you yesterday - it was a quote from a small book by 
Robin Ramsay called 'The Rise of New Labour' :
 
'I have taken from my party everything they 
thought they believed in. What keeps it together is success and 
power.'
     - attributed to Tony Blair 
by Andrew Rawnsley in his Servants Of The People (2001 paperback edition), page 
195
 
At the time of writing, Baghdad is experiencing the 
'Shock and Awe' strategy promised by the US administration, and there can be few 
who have not already witnessed coverage of  that city being subjected 
to a military assault of unprecedented ferocity. 
 
It was promised by Rumsfeld, and now it is 
being delivered. Those of us who oppose this war, and the methods being 
used to pursue it, are coming under increasing pressure to hush, to support 'wur 
boays', to accept that the show of strength currently being dutifully delivered 
to all peoples of the world via mass-media will not be 
contested.
 
But it IS being contested, 24-hours-a-day by 
movements of people all over this planet - as some go to bed, exhausted after 
marching for miles, others wake in other places and meet their friends, put the 
finishing touches to their banners and face-make-up and head off to the 
places where they will meet with many others to scream their resistance to 
the slaughter now happening.  
 
Thank you for reading my message on-air. I know 
that, as a professional broadcaster, you will be well-aware that 
whatever you and your colleagues do in the weeks ahead will be carefully 
monitored, not only by your bosses (and their bosses) but by the millions of 
folk who rely on your organisation to accurately reflect what we are thinking 
and feeling.
 
Best regards,
 
Ian Brotherhood