here they are again!

this is a comment posted last night on a post which is so elderly I had to search quite hard to find it, but I have let it through and thought I would reproduce it here as it is just about fit to be seen on a family blog and is well representative of the Reading boys.  I have no idea who wrote it though, possibly not a Reading boy at all.  Doesn't matter really, shows you what is out there.  Would be nice if people who want to express their views on this blog identified themselves though.  Surely the views expressed below are nothing to be ashamed of?  Hein?

Jane, your reply above just about sums you up ("where did Labour Friends of Israel come from? I was a member of that for many years - so what?")

It's a bit like saying "I was a member of the Nazi party for many years, so what?"

It matters because it shows that you have no principles of scruples of any kind, in that you think that being a stooge for a racist apartheid state doesn't really matter. You were supposed to represent your Reading constituents, not lobby for a foreign state. It used to be called treason, and the penalty used to be the gallows.

And you haven 't answered my question: How much did did the Israeli government (aka Labour Friends of Israel pay for you?

I suppose we should be thankful for small mercies: you're so inept and incompetent that you couldn't have done the apartheid state of Israel much good.

30 July 2010 21:49

I note on re-reading that there is a question in it "how much did the Israeli government... pay for you".  Of course, nothing.  If I had ever received any financial or other benefits from that or any organisation I would have had to declare them, and would have done so.  I further note on re-reading that the comment contains what can be construed as a death threat.  I cannot usually be bothered to investigate the identities of those who post on my blog, taking the view that if they choose to conceal their identity that is their affair.  However a little investigation may be merited in this case.  The threat does not frighten me - I live in Strasbourg, France, and am in the phone book and my name is on the door plate of the building I live in, so if this person wants to find me he can do so -  but this individual clearly has some issues to resolve, and I am not in a position to know whether he would be minded actually to put such a threat into effect, and thus whether he is a danger to the public.  But it would be worth knowing, hein?