I was reading the pages of Antony Loewenstein today and found his incoming letters list.
I shared them with my Lady Wife.
Neither of us could believe the hate being sent his way.
Why should a peacemaker be met with derision and hate??

Some months back I sent some words along to his blog mainly because I understood what he was saying and while maybe disagreeing in tiny detail, found a great deal of respect for his views.
This is a bloke whose mind soars with the eagles.

Antony won’t even admit to me that those who try to shout him down are stuck on the ground like turkeys.
Well, I’ve said it myself.

I’ve been writing into this ‘forum’ again recently trying to raise fair comment about some local public interest issues.
Strikes me that if one keeps one’s inputs (what would be the word) mouselike – then no comment results.
But if one raises real issues – then one is shouted down in short order.
What’s been happening to my inputs recently has been happening to Antony and has been escalated way beyond full-time in his case.

So which of you bravos out there will offer to cut my throat for writing this?

I have to ask a simple question.Why classify yourself as a non farmer?What prejudice do have against farmers? Without farmers,we would all starve.

Dear Arjay,
Give us all a break!

Regardez –

It's simple.
I don't have 'green thumbs'.
I'm not a farmer.
I'm an engineer.

Mr. Loewenstein might get a chuckle when I say to you that "some of my best friends happen to be farmers".

Of course, that might 'fly over your head' – how an engineer in a rural region might prize his peers at agriculture.
A 'Farmer' was best man at our wedding.
As it happens most of my friends happen to be bloody good farmers.
It outrages me that many of them have lately been forced off their land.
If I had my way none of that would be happening.

While on that subject I could say a fair deal about who might have caused that.
That might be a future subject for this forum.

Meanwhile I'm used to people who stick to reasoned conversation and some thread of logic.
I believe in cause and effect.
40+ years in engineering have hardwired such attitudes.
I’d like to see some similar attitude from out there.
I’d like to find someone who’d talk sense for a change.

I know there are vital issues out there that the 'media' won't cover.
I’d like to have leave to present my concerns to this forum in some reasonably sequential fashion without being called to task about something as completely ridiculous as my choice of a bloody pen-name.

Kindly try again for your best to respond to what I’d put to this forum.
Either that or go to TAFE for a course in basic civics – EH?

Hey Non Farmer,

I tried in your other thread, asking whether you wanted to write to someone but you never came back.

I personally and desperately am trying to find someone to listen to me regarding the foster children in Australia, the people I have met outside of online have not helped at all.

On here I have had some advice that I am following through in the hope that it works or at least I will be sure I have done what I could. I also have been noticed online, the department paid me a visit so although I was cautioned it is hopeful.

What local public interest issues?

Julie

PS.. I am also a non-farmer but on my birth certificate it lists my fathers occupation as Shepherd.

Dear Non Farmer,

You ask, "Why should a peace maker be met
with derision and hate?"

Possibly because that's a price to pay
for speaking uncomfortable truths.

Antony Loewenstein published a book in 2006,
called, "My Israel Question." Which discusses
the topic of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

In it he discusses issues like the Ashrawi
scandal, Zionism and antisemitism. Zionism
in Australia. The Jewish lobby, the news media
and the lobby. The politics of Zionism in the
USA. He asks the question, "How could a
democratic state maintain a brutal occupation over
another people for over 40 years?"

He reframes the Israel-Palestine conflict from
a very personal perspective. As a result he's
been shunned and ridiculed and has received
growing amounts of hate mail.

He's been accused of being anti-Israel and hostile
towards the Jewish people.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

He supports the right of Israelis to live in peace
and security, but not at the expense of the
Palestinians. And he asks, "Why is the world told
to believe that the Palestinians should only accept
peace on Israel's terms?"

And of course that sort of thinking attracts
hate mail.

thanks for explaining foxey[i was wondered what the post was about]names mean nothing to me,but the israel genocide of the indigenant people of palistein is relivant[like the murder of 1 million iraquis[or the expected june premptive attack on iran,as well as the power in briton and us of the israel lobby

but first re the title[how many sickoes on a pin head[none]the point of the pin is to pin the sickoes down

to show its not so we know israel controles the media.banking/politics/law, but there is more
http://uruknet.com/?p=m54409&hd=&size=1&l=e
http://curtmaynardsnewestblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/any-nation-looking-for-first-rate-anti.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086628.html
http://www.infowars.com/government-critics-to-be-sent-to-mental-asylums/
Jurriaan Maessen..If you have the misfortune of being born after 1970,you have effectively been subjected to new educational system, which has infiltrated every segment of public life:from broadcasting media and newspapers,..to textbooks and,even big budget motion pictures.
http://chimpplanet.blogspot.com/2009/05/were-george-bushs-invasions-in-middlke.html
http://republicbroadcasting.org/?p=2011
Top secret military intelligence briefings prepared by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and often hand-delivered to George W. Bush featured Crusades-like Bible quotes above triumphant photos of the U.S. military effort in Iraq.
http://www.infowars.com/us-weapons-end-up-in-hands-of-taliban/
http://www.infowars.com/us-military-heavily-armed-and-medicated/
georgias links to israel are well known,now this
http://www.infowars.com/nato-exercises-provoke-russia/
http://www.infowars.com/government-critics-to-be-sent-to-mental-asylums/
now conveniantly the source of the wepons of mass destraction is dead
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=195006
http://www.daily.pk/world/americas/10232-american-death-squad-obama-inherits-cheneys-army-of-assassins--and-promotes-their-commander-.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3718976,00.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086833.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8059021.stm
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2009/05/israel-lobby-commits-maje-blunder-in.html
and to show no one has clean hands
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/20/irish-catholic-schools-child-abuse-claims

thjere is plenty more info[but thats todays crop]..some people just avoid knowing the truth may be worse that the media dares tell
http://www.infowars.com/the-weimar-hyperinflation-could-it-happen-again/
http://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-bilderberg-clubs-plan/
http://www.infowars.com/massive-imbalances-in-world-economy-still-tipping-us-downwards/
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086819.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13675
http://www.queenscourier.com/articles/2009/04/29/news/top_stories/doc49f8a06b87bcd650029530.txt
http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/the-truth-about-option-arms-pick-a-pay-mortgages-and-alt-a-loans-looking-at-wells-fargo-bank-of-america-and-jp-morgan-we-are-in-the-eye-of-the-469-billion-toxic-mortgage-hurricane-and-silence/
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/waroniraq/94410
the lie of green stimulous
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=46453
http://www.iceagenow.com/US_Navy_Physicist_warns_of_crushing_temperatures_and_global_famine.htm