"The library's directory (libraries/selectivizr) could not be found."

I'm attempting to configure this on a shared host. I have ssh access. Unzip is installed. I attempted running:
drush make libraries.make --no-core --contrib-destination=.
but all that was returned was

Unable to download selectivizr from                                  [error] 
https://github.com/fubhy/selectivizr/archive/master.zip.
Unable to download html5shiv from                                    [error]
https://github.com/fubhy/html5shiv/archive/master.zip.
Unable to download respond from                                      [error]
https://github.com/fubhy/respond/archive/master.zip.
Unable to download matchmedia from                                   [error]
https://github.com/fubhy/matchmedia/archive/master.zip.
Unable to download pie from                                          [error]
https://github.com/fubhy/pie/archive/master.zip.

If I attempt wget any of the libraries listed in the make file from the shell, I get the error

wget https://github.com/fubhy/html5shiv/archive/master.zip
--2014-09-07 20:55:12--  https://github.com/fubhy/html5shiv/archive/master.zip
Resolving github.com... 192.30.252.131
Connecting to github.com|192.30.252.131|:443... connected.
ERROR: cannot verify github.com’s certificate, issued by “/C=US/O=DigiCert Inc/OU=www.digicert.com/CN=DigiCert SHA2 Extended Validation Server CA”:
  Unable to locally verify the issuer’s authority.
To connect to github.com insecurely, use ‘--no-check-certificate’.

I assume this is a permission issue of some kind so I created a libraries directory in my sub theme folder and downloaded the files manually, chmod 755 slectivizr.js etc.
But I still get the directory could not be found error.
I also attempted it in the sites/all/libraries directory, same error.
Anyone have an idea of where I'm messing up?
Thanks