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Arab comment offensive, says reader

Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2012 - By Robert W. Andrews

Dear Tico Times:

To Mr. Steve Church: Glancing through your narrative in The Tico Times about launching your El Castillo Hotel on the Costa Rican Pacific coast (TT, Feb. 10, 3), I was assaulted by words describing your alcohol-ravaged mouth being “like an Arab’s armpit.” Would you also write for publication about the flavor of a rabbi’s armpit?

Your article acknowledges the negative feelings toward Americans in various countries. Don’t you think indulging in prejudiced generalizations about allegedly poor personal hygiene in certain demographics erodes your own reputation as an American living abroad?

Really, sir, I hope this vulgar bigotry is solely the product of too much rum, rather than something more deeply rooted. That The Tico Times would offer this shameless anti-Semitic racism in print is astonishing.

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John Newton

Thursday March 15 2012

Here in Canada's our new police state government panders to privileged minority groups, to the point of establishing Human Rights Tribunals in every province, to punish those citizens who voice their concerns about how excessive immigration has negatively affected their lives, or for making "truthful comments" about those who belong to those privileged minority groups. Things have got so out of control that citizens who demand their basic right to free speech and expression are even being jailed. This guy got eighteen months for speaking his mind about Canada's immigration policies http://downwithjugears.blogspot.com/2005/04/brad-love-case.html

What am I getting at? If what someone says is the truth, he or she should be permitted to talk about it. If a particular culture enjoys the hobby of planting bombs in public places, or if they are known to smell like curry or whatever, then why should we not be permitted to talk about it?
If someone says anything negative "but truthful" about my culture "who am I to complain"? If it's the truth I just have to suck it up. I'm not going to run off to some Human Rights Tribunal to complain. Once we give up our basic right to free speech and expression to a police state governments we’ll never get it back.

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