Monday 28 March 2011

A word of caution for newspaper letters editors

The letters column of today's Northern Star features a letter that appears over the name Todd Lasance.

Has the Star unearthed the current location of the Aussie actor who appeared in the soapie Home and Away series or has the Star failed to do its homework and suss out the bona fides of the 'contributor'.

The letter (copy below) was supposedly written by Todd Lasance of Maclean. However, there's an individual from that area who has more aliases than most people have had hot dinners. Although the individual has a bit of a hankering for colourful surnames, especially those extracted from cemeteries and obituaries, he/she often resorts to colours (black and white are favourites). Military and law enforcement are other areas of interest for the 'contributor', so surnames associated with those activities deserve closer scrutiny.

If the Star has been conned it can take comfort from the fact that it's in good company. Newspapers known to have fallen for the 'contributor' include The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Age, The Courier Mail, The Newcastle Herald, The Coffs Coast Advocate, The Daily Examiner, ...

No oil resource

NO help, of course, for the slowly starving millions in Dafur being slaughtered, attacked and raped by their own national government for a decade, plus.

The problem is these peasants have no oil resources. No Arab League action for the people of Bahrain/Manama. Just violent incursions across national borders with rapid gunfire.

Not so Libya, floating on a lake of 42 years' worth of oil, and this fact brought out the naked blood lust in USA via Hillary Clinton, the UK Prime Minister and the oh so trustworthy French President.

Their mouths dripped with bloody malice as they spoke of "the need to protect a UN Resolution". Yeah, only when it suits them and a big natural source of energy is involved.

No wonder Germany had the good sense to abstain from the vote in the UN Security Council.

This one action killed off any slim chance that President Obama had of a second term. Even Australia could not resist this wanton blood lust. As my son, 17, said to his mother: "It's all about oil, nothing to do with peoples' lives".

TODD LASANCE, Maclean.

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