i have been sending 'letters to the editor' locally for some time though in recent years much more sporadically than in the past. the genocide was too much for me to keep silent about so here it is for your consideration;

Dear Editor,

Western governments, most noticeably ours, have openly facilitated some of the worst crimes of our age but I don’t think the empire is ever going to recover from this Gaza genocide. Violence is democracy, and voting is not, we learn from watching ‘our free press’ these days, depending on who is wielding it.

A gathering of black malcontents is commonly called a gang. Italians gathering the same way gets called a mob, while a similar group of jews is called a coincidence. That old saw is a clue to why ‘our’ government stands with the crimes of Israel for the last seventy five years but this Gaza genocide is way beyond all defense. Some fish just don’t belong in the same aquarium as others. 

War occurs between separate countries. Hamas is a resistance organization in an occupied land. Its an armed revolt just as the Warsaw uprising was. It’s a recognized legal right for citizens of an occupied nation to resist however they can. Gaza is an open air prison in which the inmates are allowed no freedom of movement beyond the walls that surround them. Don’t like it? Can’t leave anyway, at least officially. This has been the case for a very long time with no solution in sight. Imagine what you’d do under such an open ended prison sentence for being born into a race that some powerful group decided was born to loose. 

Mass movement: communism, nazism, zionism, and I suspect, any other ism attract the same sort of people performing the same sort of insidious actions. We have some of those types here in positions of power that misuse it.

Why is ‘our free press’ obsessively reheating five-month-old unproven allegations against Hamas so reluctant to focus on Israel’s current, horrifying atrocities? Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten, murdered. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponized. No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of documented atrocities committed by Israel in the five months since 10/7  quite separate from the carpet bombing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and a famine induced by Israel’s obstruction of aid..........more........