I feel it not unreasonable that, having published a letter containing personal insults which are completely untrue, a letter of repudiation should finds it way to the printing press. If this is unacceptable then perhaps the insults should not have found publicity in the first place.
Eric Bahrt in his letter seems to have licence to insult at will based completely on untruths. I’ve been called a “hypocrite”, an “elitist snob” and that for years I’ve “been preaching down at the Thais”.
The whole emotional rant is absolutely without foundation. Endorsing Trump is a fundamental issue affecting billions of people and animals. He is opposed to the worldwide establishment intent on world government. They see Trump’s exposure of the Bush family’s involvement in 9/11 and the Iraq war and the Clinton Foundation as a terminal threat. Tactics such as political correctness, Common Core education, debauching the US and other Western economies, free trade areas and mass uncontrolled immigration are intended to create a sameness in world society as predicted by George Orwell in his 1949 satire ‘1984’. The whole world establishment is terrified for their very existence of his disclosures and rise to power. Trump must be preferable to them. He and his family would cause far less cruelty to people and animals than the people he is targeting have already done and will continue so to do. Prioritising the broad issue is not hypocritical.
For months I protested, together with thousands of Thais, on the streets of Bangkok, shoulder to shoulder, in their struggle for democracy, risking the bullets and bombs of government supporters. “Elitist snobs” would not suffer that.
While protesting in the UK against the cruelty dished out to innocent animals, I was arrested on several occasions by an unethical, often brutal police force. Subsequent court cases exonerated me completely from any wrongdoing. It’s one thing writing letters of compassion on an issue: it’s another doing something about it.
JC Wilcox