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Dear*******
Thank you very much for supporting my Stop the BBC Bias Campaign. I very much appreciate it and with your help we can force the BBC to address the question of bias.
Below you will see a message that I would like you to forward to your friends and colleagues in order to widen the appeal for refusniks. Using email we can call it an eSAMIZDAT after the method and pamphlet I used in the Soviet Union to spread our demands for human rights. Please also ask you friends also to forward the eSAMIZDAT onwards. Please place copies upon notice boards wherever you can especially in universities.
We have a peaceful demonstration planned outside the BBC Broadcasting House at Langham Place in London at 12 noon on Tuesday 10 December the anniversary of the establishment of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I hope to meet many of you there.
( Nearest Tube for Langham Place is Oxford Circus. Go up Regent Street to Langham Place and the BBC is opposite to the Langham Hotel and next to St George’s Church)
Also on Monday 2nd December at 11am there will be a programme on TalkSport Radio on the subject with Robin Page of 'One Man and His Dog', a signed up refusnik and Nigel Farage MEP.
Best wishes from Vladimir Bukovsky.
eSAMIZDAT
Vladimir Bukovsky appeals for refusniks to join a campaign against BBC Bias
I have decided to refuse to pay the BBC licence fee at some point next year because of the bias and propaganda displayed daily by the BBC. I will do this even if I have no followers at all but I am appealing to you to join me I have one thousand signed up already but 5000+ will be more effective.
I would like the BBC to become the KGB successors in imprisoning me for demanding freedom of speech. Nothing would expose them more for what they are.
The BBC are the spin masters by vocation, they will try to cast a shadow of suspicion on my motives, I do not wish to take this action but the blatant political bias reminds me of what I had to resist in the USSR, I can no longer remain silent. We don't have any business interests behind our action. We are just ordinary law-abiding citizens of this country who refuse to pay for a service which does not satisfy them, (let alone paying to a ministry of propaganda which is engaged in systematic brainwashing of the public). What is wrong with that? If my gardener (or plumber) does sloppy work, I will refuse to pay him and no one would be surprised. Why can't we do the same with the BBC? Why are these godfathers allowed to make us an offer we cannot refuse?
Our demands are very simple and very modest. We want to have two weeks of debates in prime time on the subjects the BBC either censors out or distorts in its coverage. Objective and impartial debates in which the viewpoints of those excluded or misrepresented by the BBC so far will be given an equal time and opportunity. Frankly, I am amazed to see such a stubborn resistance by the BBC bosses to such a reasonable offer.