EVERYONE who knows me also knows I try not to let any subjective feeling get the better of my reason or my regard for facts which help prove an argument.

Mr Robert Segal, on the other hand, seems to be in a permanent state of blind fury.

I will try again to penetrate the obtuse accusations he hurls at me and people who think as I do on key issues.

Saying that the recent bombings in London were a result of biased imperialist policies of the US and British governments seems to me quite obvious. It is like the boy in the famous story who remarks that the deluded King has no clothes. The king is in the 'altogether', just like Mr Segal.

I condemned the bombings unequivocally not only because they targeted innocents but because they play into the hands of the enemies of civil liberties, among them Tony Blair.

The Lancashire Association of TUC's, of which I am president, will be opening its delegates meeting this Saturday (August 13) at 10.15am at Preston CVS Building, Lancaster Road, to all who would like to address the root economic, social and politi-cal cause of the situation we now find ourselves in regardless of religion, class, sex and age. Even Mr Segal can attend

I and others think Mr Segal wishes to smear all he disagrees with as terrorist in true witch-hunting style - but not all those opposing Imperialism in the third world are terrorists.

How would political amoeba Mr Segal like if its people tried to say all Jews, inside or outside Israel, were or are terrorists, as are or were Begin and Sharon?

Mr Segal then comes out with the old standard dismissal of socialism, as if the former USSR was the be-all-and-end-all of the movement - something which has only existed for barely one and a half centuries and has to learn by mistakes like any other.

Unless we remove the economic political and social injustice which the continued existence of capitalism perpetuates there is no future for civilisation at the very least and maybe no future for the human race

Mr Steve Metcalfe, Lancaster.