Facebook group reclassifies Blair autobiography as 'crime' book
Photographs posted on networking site show ex-PM's book, 'A Journey', on bookstore shelves under the headings 'Painful Lives' and 'Dark Fantasy'.
By Haaretz Service Tags: Israel news Tony BlairA campaign on the social networking website Facebook is urging readers to reclassify the autobiography of British former prime minister Tony Blair as a 'crime' book.
"Put one of Tony Blair's books in the crime section of your bookshop," is the name given to the group by its founders, who aim to bring attention to what they belive was illegal behavior by the ex-leader, whose memoirs hit the shelves this week.
Blair, who currently serves as the envoy of the 'Quartet' of Middle East peace negotiators, courted controversy with his staunch backing of the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. The disputed legality of the invasion provoked fierce debate across the world, including within his own government.
Photographs posted on the page showed Blair's book, 'A Journey', placed on bookstore shelves under the category headings 'Painful Lives' and 'Dark Fantasy'.
On Saturday, protesters hurled shoes and eggs Saturday at Tony Blair who held the first public signing of his memoir amid high security in Ireland.
One commenter on the Facebook page urged readers not to stop with Blair but to add books by other contentious politicians, including George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger and Barack Obama, to their local bookshop's 'crime' section.
And one of the page's administrators suggested readers may like to transfer copies of the bible to the 'fantasy' section while they were at it, while as of Sunday evening, a total of 858 Facebook members had taken the time to register a 'like' rating for the page.
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Copies of ex-British PM Tony Blair's book displayed at a bookshop in London on Sept. 1, 2010. |
| Photo by: AP |
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Pretty Scary.
Kissenger was the true war criminal above all the others. No conscience, no remorse. Christopher Hitchens spelled it all out. Cheney tried to reshape the world. His crimes are far worse than Bush's. They should all die in hiding and discrace.
no need to overrate the importance of facebook groups, & it shouldn't surprise anyone that they're being used & misused for just about anything. my bet is this one won't last very long as it's only about negativity & hate. as far as the reported protesters go, at the public signing of blair's book in ireland on saturday, it belongs to that story that more people turned out for the book signing than the number of the angry protesters. i for one think that tony blair (for all his flaws & inadequacies, which every man has) is one of the very few courageous, principled & visionary world leaders we've had & we'll hardly have anyone of his caliber again (at least not many, & currently in europe - whom?).
How can a war criminal have anything to do with peace negotiations? Bush and Blair should be shunned by the world. The same goes for Kissenger and Cheney.
Mr. Bliar calls Mr. Bush[wacker] a "simple" man in his book. Yet this was the man who was widely dubbed the pet poodle of the very man he calls "simple".