By Karina DeBeers Santa Monica
I am writing, not to attempt to squish free speech, but to encourage (the Daily Press) to more thoroughly investigate the agenda of guest writers such as Elan Journo (“Taking the fight to the enemy is needed,” April 11) and his supposed connection to the teachings of Ayn Rand.
His recent commentary seemed to be full of fear and hate. Having followed the writings of those who have written commentary behind the name of the Ayn Rand Institute, I have come to my own conclusion that they are typically promoting hatred towards those with Islamic and Muslim backgrounds, yet seem to refer to this as somehow in America’s interest to kill people of such background.
It seems like more of a right wing Israeli agenda than the agenda of most of your readers, based on my limited, but accurate knowledge of AIPAC (The American Israel Political Action Committee) and their covert, but effective agenda of getting America to support it’s continued oppression of Arabs, Muslims and those of Islamic backgrounds, especially the Palestinians and Lebanese, and including Iraqi and Iranian people.
It’s sad, that with so many other worthy writers and topics, that your paper chooses to publish such fear-based hatred towards other people because they happen to also have extremists like Journo among them.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 17, 2007. Read the original PDF.