Guernsey Press

Being appalled and saying so is freedom of speech

I WONDER if I could be permitted to raise points and ask questions with reference to Mr Gavet's response to a letter printed in the Guernsey Press last month ('Is this a Bridge2Disaster?, 22 September).

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On 19 March 2013, Sarin gas was used in the Aleppo suburb of Syria. Assad was promptly blamed for this by Israel and the USA due to confessions from Isis defectors (after capture) even though many that were killed were Syrian soldiers. The UN insisted on investigating this themselves and on 6 May the UN's Carla Del Ponte suggested evidence pointed to coalition-backed rebels, not Assad's regime – this was supported by Russian laboratory findings after examination of the strike zones and reported to Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Chemical weapon caches have also been found in rebel tunnels and vehicles crossing the border from Turkey.

If these reports are true, then America and its allies are complicit in supporting those who use them and spreading false rhetoric to cultivate a war of aggression. It's hard to know who to believe... although we have heard this WMD spin before to drag us into war.

Mr Gavet, it reads like you believe this hogwash while lamenting on how 'some wonder why Syrian refugees are fleeing their country'. A vast amount of migrants are not Syrian refugees, up to 90%, according to reports.

Legitimate Syrian refugees who need shelter and safety are being usurped by waves of economic migrants who have nothing to do with the Syrian civil war but are hijacking this, fleeing to the welfare havens of Germany and Sweden off the back of refugees, denigrating the Syrians. You admit that you 'would not be so naive' as to think Isis will not succeed in infiltrating migrants moving across Europe, suggesting we fight these Wahhabis extremists with compassion. How?

You speak of tabloid propaganda feeding people's selfish attitudes, but not of the pro-immigration coverage by the BBC, CNN, Fox and Sky News, which seems to be pushing an agenda, an EU agenda laid out by Peter Sutherland, the UN special representative on migration in 2012: 'The United States, or Australia and New Zealand, are migrant societies and therefore they accommodate more readily those from other backgrounds than we do ourselves, who still nurse a sense of our homogeneity and difference from others. And that's precisely what the European Union, in my view, should be doing its best to undermine.'

Make no mistake Mr Gavet, this is economic and cultural suicide for Europe and being appalled and saying so is freedom of speech.

Maybe people are condemning actions of others rather than trying to do something constructive because they're not wearing social warrior rose-tinted glasses and can see where this is headed – and placing them in a box alongside the Britain First Organisation, implying they're a neo-right wing Nazi, feels a lot like cultural Marxism sir, ironically a speech-censoring tool of the far left.

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