Editorial Comment 31-10-2005.
Prince Charles brings welcomed publicity to climate change.

Whatever your view on HRH and royalty there is no escaping the fact that genuine concern from individuals that can command an audience and provoke a response, is essential in the battle to bring about effective change to combat potential climatic calamity.

There is a general realisation now that our over dependence on fossilised fuels to meet our energy needs and indulgencies has a finite cost. Carbon dioxide production is causing energy from the sun to be retained in the biosphere, thus heating it up.
We need a radical rethink on energy production and on our lifestyles.
It is for Governments to lead populations and industry towards a more balanced and sustainable future.
It is up to us, the people, to insist our Government takes the necessary action to bring that about.
Man’s invention, ingenuity and determination must be harnessed.

In our modern westernised world, vested interests of wealth and power exert disproportionate and undue influence upon our Governments.
We need to rediscover the forceful nature of majority opinion.
The traffic light protest can convey that majority message visually, forcefully yet non-violently and is simple for all to participate in.
Green and white ribbons tied to traffic light posts, for the week of the Montreal review of Kyoto agreements, can send a message to those Governments from the people, to ensure that those agreements are upheld and implemented.

Editorial Comment 20-10-2005.
When will we finally get the message to STOP WAR and Change To a GREEN PLANET!

As the biggest hurricane in history (Wilma) is poised to hit Florida, maybe leaders and decision makers like Bush and Blair might stop being ostriches and burying their heads in the sand.
Perhaps they will open their eyes and start to take the necessary action to avoid climactic calamity.

Editorial Comment 13-10-2005.
There should be no debate on the 90 day Detention Bill, for it is an evil Act!
The governing yardstick of whether it is reasonable is not whether it will allow a terrorist to be caught, but whether it is possible for an innocent person to resist a sustained intensive interrogation.

14 days may be possible, 90 days is totally impossible; ask anyone that employs any non-violent interrogation techniques.

When all good folk seek to reduce the occurrence of injustice, this proposal makes its proliferation a certainty.

Editorial Comment 24-9-2005.
Having just returned from another march and rally in London (for Peace and Liberty), I find that I and many others (and indeed you as a reader) have been branded by Blair as ‘Urban Intellectuals’.

Well I'm really decimated by such a devastating insult. I'm quaking in my boots at its verbal severity, so I'd better give up then!!..........I don't think !

Oh, sorry, thinking is now a bad (in Governmental terms) thing to do. Perhaps that is because, if he (Blair) had thought beyond his narcissistic horizon, his few remaining living grey cells would have warned him otherwise from his self deluded liaison with Dubya.
Over the Iraq war, metaphorically most hawks are now turning to doves, or in one notable British case, an ass!

To carry on regardless when this means many lives will be needlessly lost on all sides, is bordering on criminal megalomania.

Talking and listening to both marchers and speakers at the rally, it is clear that the extent of anger and disillusionment encompasses not only this war’s handling but, also the unsavoury, self congratulation of 2 leaders as climatic chaos ensues.

This planet, more than ever needs good sound leadership to end war and concentrate on fast approaching climatic meltdown.

Public opinion, for our survival, must be turned from simple concern into action. It is not good enough for only a small active number of us to protest. ‘Leaders’ who denigrate constructive and compassionate thought, will only be influenced to change tack by massive general public involvement. That is where Traffic lights 4 peace comes in. This movement, this pressure group seeks a future for the world; one of peace and care for all around it and for the planet which sustains us. This is a third generation co-operative movement, (for unity is strength).

The1st generation includes the likes of ‘Stop the War’, ‘Trade Justice Movement’, ‘Make Poverty History’ and most recently ‘Stop Climate Chaos’. 3rd generation ‘Traffic lights 4 peace’ seeks to unify not only anti-war and environmental groups, but jumps another generation to directly involve otherwise inactive members of the general public. By being simple in message, simple to do, universal and lasting in nature, it has this capability. A global force for true change is required and this unifying movement can deliver that.

By accepting the symbolism of the lights:
Red – STOP WAR, Amber – CHANGE TO, Green – GREEN PLANET, we have a global focus for protest that will not go away. This will NOT replace rallies and marches, but will complement them for it will allow the general public the opportunity to tell such blind leaders ( dazzled by their own egos ) that enough is enough! We want a future!

This movement is not designed to deliver ‘cast iron’ methods to produce all the answers for humanitarian and environmental stability, but is to pressure our leaders and decision makers into taking the necessary action to avert disaster and to encourage all humanity to work together for a sustainable future.

What we ask, therefore, is for you to tell everyone you know, whom you believe to be concerned about the senseless waste of human life in warfare and for prospective climactic meltdown, about this movement.

This is a Movement for every individual.
This is a Movement that believes in a future for us ALL, not just for an elite few.
Go out on the web and by talking to your family, friends and work colleagues, let them all know of the possibility to actually do something. We are not powerless; for as individuals we may seem so, but as a unified group we have the capability and collective will to dictate our future.

Humanity is at a metaphorical crossroads.
We need to stop and change direction.
We need to get it right, or else there will be few of us left!

Editorial Comment 7-9-05
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Editorial comment 28-07-05
Whilst Mr. Blair basks in increased popularity as he astutely portrays himself as a beacon of resistance to the terrorists, what he doesn't remind voters about is that his actions created the reason in the terrorists perverted minds for such action in the first place.

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