Maybe I’m an extremist in danger of being radicalised and should therefore be reported to the new initiative ‘anti-terror hotline’ which ‘encourages citizens to report any worrying behaviour’ (LT, June 6).

Here’s why: I disagree totally with the need to see over one million Iraqi citizens slaughtered (and countless nameless other citizens in Afghanistan), in order to keep Britain’s streets safe and defend our democracy.

I am also a peace lover along with other radical extremists such as Gandhi and Bertrand Russell. I dare to question the official version of events fed to me by the corporate media and governments.

I’m vegetarian and I value and admire free thinkers and treasure the right to free speech – and thought. Maybe writing letters such as this in these truly dark days of fear and paranoia is enough to ‘flag me up for attention’ or for me to get a knock on the door from the authorities?

And God help me if I liked to keep my curtains shut during the day in our rapidly escalating police state.

Police state! Isn’t that opinion a tad extremist? Well, a little look at history reveals how Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot etc had similar ideas! I quote: “In Nazi Germany the police were allowed to arrest people on suspicion that they were about to do wrong. This gave the police huge powers. All local police units had to draw up a list of people in their locality who might be suspected of being ‘Enemies of the State’. This list was given to the Gestapo.”

Source: www.historylearning site.co.uk. Sound familiar?

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