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We all seek the truth

John MacKinnon Sidney, Australia, NSW 2000

Dear Mr. Stewart Bell of the National Post of Canada,

Your story-telling is getting lots of publicity. The Society of Professional Journalists says that professional integrity is the cornerstone of a journalist's credibility. When you join the pro-terrorist Tamil extremists in Canada to spread LTTE propaganda, you violate the essence of your profession: to seek the truth and report it. The Society says journalists should be honest, fair and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting information. You sure failed that standard.

http://www.sinhala.net/LocalNews/SinhalaNet_Full_News.asp?ID=4223#NewsViewBM
http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items08/281008-2.html
http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2008/11/34519_20.html

You are not the only one. There are plenty in other fields who violated the essence of their professions living in the US, UK and Australia:

I keep reading about the partnership between Tamil Terrorists and Amnesty International. There are plenty of news articles that discuss how Amnesty International has been recruited by Tamil Tigers to spread false propaganda and viciously attack developing countries such as Sri Lanka. That is really a shame since I thought Amnesty International was fighting for the rights of victims. It is really odd that based on hundreds of terror attacks carried out by Tamil Terrorists killing many civilians by suicide bombings in Sri Lanka, Amnesty International is in fact creating victims and not really helping them. One begins to ask: since Amnesty International maintains such a close relationship with Tamil Tigers/ terrorists, how come AI does not put any pressure on these terrorists to stop the mass murder of civilians by suicide bombings, ethnic cleansing of non-Tamils in the North and East of Sri Lanka and recruiting children as soldiers? Is there a hidden motive behind such inaction? Please allow me to direct your attention to a possible motive: the Tamil extremists have profited by narco-terrorism and other high crimes for many years. Read about it in Jane's Defense Intelligence Review. Can you imagine what 300 million USD in blood-money can buy every year?

We send our kids to college to become good citizens. We expect every immigrant to become a law-abiding and contributing member of our society. But then you read about these Tamil extremists and Amnesty International and how they use the wealth in our countries to commit unspeakable crimes, including fraud and mass murder of innocent civilians. On top of all that, they emailed this news article on how a twisted attorney Bruce Fein of Lichfield Group was hired by Tamil Tigers in the US to spread false propaganda, racism and hate, and legitimize their terror campaign. I read his misleading and totally false article in the Washington Times and I could not stop laughing. It is obvious that not only did Bruce Fein not have the slightest clue about who his terror clients are, but he was willing to take their narco-dollars, digest all the false information they were feeding him, and spread them to the media. Sadly, college education did nothing for such attorneys! The Washington Times violated the essence of your profession by publishing such racist terror-propaganda.

With all this support for terrorists and their criminal enterprises in the West, can you imagine the kind of world we will leave behind for our children?

Yours truly,

John MacKinnon
Sidney, Australia, NSW 2000

CC:

Terry Harper, Executive Director, Society of Professional Journalists Amy Guyer, Managing Editor, Society of Professional Journalists Jennifer Windsor, Executive Director, Freedom of the Press

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