Starving out the words versus direct murder

PRIMARILY ADDRESSED TO: Janice Stein et al ...

March 16, 2011
Janice Stein, Director, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, etc. Dear Sirs and Madams;
This letter is separately copied to people who received the initial copy of my book Just Business. For some, the Final Corollary, and other related correspondence, is enclosed.
Some, I am told, are offended by the tone of brochures, that went primarily to local towns folk, but which I also enclosed in copies of this book. A young First Nation man at Lakehead University also raised the concerns that there are many "unverified quotes".
This is base irresponsibility, in any democracy. Verify the quotes, independent of my own story. Do not suppress the story, for the sake that it is "offending" or it makes allegations and quotes of lawyers and politicians, that then are silenced. Because, most offensive of all, you are too lazy to challenge even me.
The history of this nation? For 250 years, the voice of the First Nation person was suppressed, oppressed, pushed onto reservations and purposely starved from justice. The starvation was, too often, real.
In 1948, the nation called Canada signed a law saying that what happened in Europe was an illegal abomination. This became measured, by what? In the numbers who died under the hail of bullets? Yes. In the numbers who were marched into gas chambers? Yes. In the numbers who died from being worked to death? Yes. In the numbers who were deliberately starved because they dared to be or simply were different? Yes.
In the measure that those people, who dared to criticize the comfortable, the elite and those in positions of responsibility, should not have their words shut down, so that stuff like this could be stopped before it ever began? Yes.
In the measure that the words of criticism must remain free, no matter the race, creed, sex, geography, social status or any other ignorant, discriminating criteria applied to any individual by humans so unkind? Yes.
"Never Again", became the mantra. But, the starvation and the oppression of the words deliberately continued through the manipulation of the vote and the institutions of justice. By partisans and the elitist. AND this continues in North America.
READ THE book Just Business and then explain to me how the exclusion of words about the illegality of all of this is any better than what happens in Libya. Shutting down the words through deliberate starvation? Or by bullets?
Which is more justified, given the history on this planet?
Who among you purposely hopes to starve me out, BECAUSE, YES, MY WORDS OFFEND YOU? And who among you repeats the sins of our fathers in compliant silence? BECAUSE MY WORDS OFFEND YOU.
But, worse, who among you pretends to be "ethical" and stays silent?
　
Don MacAlpine