You can show your support for freedom
The petition supporting Sir Salman Rushdie's knighthood which I mentioned below is now online, You can sign it here. I normally consider these petitions a gimmicky waste of time. But it is precisely because it has the imprimatur of 10 Downing Street that it is, in this instance, imperative that it is signed. We have to demonstrate to the enemies of freedom that we stand behind Sir Salman in support of civilisation.
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Toby Belch
June 25th, 2007 10:15pmDo sign. The row was the wake up call we didn't heeed.
A Reader
June 25th, 2007 10:46pmMaybe they'll burn the petition too!
Anon
June 26th, 2007 12:36pmLook at all the journos signing this, so much for impartiality!
Harry B
June 26th, 2007 2:55pmHow could it possibly be imperative to sign a petition on a website pleading with the host of that website to accept congratulations for something he has already done? How could it help save civilisation? They send out suicide bombers while we sign a***-licking petitions. Still, glad he was knighted and eveything, in so far as honours matter (which isn't much).