Does anybody out there have any information on Turn Off The Blue Light?!

[Jack in the Box]

Members of the Turn Off The Blue Light campaign did invaluable work last year. However there hasn’t been any activity seen since 2012 and we are well into this year at this stage.

I suspect that a couple of stalwarts in the campaign (who did great work) maybe drifted away from being active. If this is the case then they need to be either urged to get involved again or replaced.

Also there should be a spokesperson for the site.

On another different point Escort Ireland should drum into all these journalists looking for a story that it has zero tolerance for exploitation. Lets put Ruhama and the Immigrant Council of Ireland on the back foot and not our side.

[LaBelleThatcher]

Members of the Turn Off The Blue Light campaign did invaluable work last year. However there hasn’t been any activity seen since 2012 and we are well into this year at this stage.

I suspect that a couple of stalwarts in the campaign (who did great work) maybe drifted away from being active. If this is the case then they need to be either urged to get involved again or replaced.

Also there should be a spokesperson for the site.

On another different point Escort Ireland should drum into all these journalists looking for a story that it has zero tolerance for exploitation. Lets put Ruhama and the Immigrant Council of Ireland on the back foot and not our side.

Good point, and while they are doing that I think it is time for everyone in, or connected to the sex industry to drum into the the same journalists that they have zero tolerance for Ruhama, the ICI and their whole propaganda machine....and to start showing the Government we have no need for them either by putting structures in place to take care of ourselves and each other like the fully functioning, competant adults we are.

[Jack in the Box]

Ruhama and company are complete interfering busy bodies as we know LaBelleThatcher. It would be nice if journalists and interveiwers like Tom Dunne for instance gave them a Vincent Browne style grilling instead of an easy ride.

Regarding Turn Off The Blue Light while it is good that the website is accessable it is not possible to add to it on Facebook and also the Google ad has disappeared. It needs a boost and a kickstart and to be fully running. There was some very impressive material put on it in 2011.

[LaBelleThatcher]

Ruhama and company are complete interfering busy bodies as we know LaBelleThatcher. It would be nice if journalists and interveiwers like Tom Dunne for instance gave them a Vincent Browne style grilling instead of an easy ride.

But he can't really do that can he? They buy advertising on Newstalk...and there is a certain etiquette goes with that...it would be the equivalent of Samlad suddenly exhorting the the ladies here to "abjure their wicked ways and seek redemption" when it isn't even April 1st...

You really, truly, cannot blatantly bite the hand that feeds you. It did come across to me, on air that he may have a rather naive and idealistic way of looking at things that isn't going to be able to see hardcore hypocrisy for what it really is any time soon for real, let alone challenge it on air AND take the flack. He is still only very young isn't he?

Regarding Turn Off The Blue Light while it is good that the website is accessable it is not possible to add to it on Facebook and also the Google ad has disappeared. It needs a boost and a kickstart and to be fully running. There was some very impressive material put on it in 2011.

I have actually had a couple of polite and friendly, totally justified, lectures about my earlier stance on TOTBL, and the hypocrisy of promulgating my own prejudices while expecting other people to set theirs aside.

I actually took a good look at the site and they seem to have been making very similar points to me. So that's me very sheepish -

Lesson learned...

Anyway, they need a royal kick in the pants...

Time to wake up and get it together...

[Jack in the Box]

Another quick response LaBelleThatcher for now. Ruhama shouldn't be missed as an advertising customer really. We really need to get TOTBL up and running properly. Is it possible to find out who controlled the website?

[Banjaxed]

Another quick response LaBelleThatcher for now. Ruhama shouldn't be missed as an advertising customer really. We really need to get TOTBL up and running properly. Is it possible to find out who controlled the website?

Yes, using the whois search on http://www.iedr.ie it comes back as registered to:

Domain: turnoffthebluelight.ie
descr: Turn Off The Blue Light
descr: Unincorporated Association
descr: Unincorporated Association Name
admin-c: AMS843-IEDR
tech-c: DAD1-IEDR
renewal: 11-April-2012
status: Active
nserver: ns1.mediatemple.net
nserver: ns2.mediatemple.net
source: IEDR

person: Mary Smith
nic-hdl: AMS843-IEDR
source: IEDR

person: Digiweb Hosting
nic-hdl: DAD1-IEDR
source: IEDR

From their contact page:

Turn Off the Blue Light
Suite 136
103-105 Lower Rathmines Road
Dublin 6
Ireland

Our telephone number is +353 1 5253559.

Now off for my morning jog.