NYT Columnist John Burns Answers Our Letter - Judge for Yourself

11AugMMXI - Clk 2 Enlrg  

John Burns made a video (watch it here) to elucidate readers about the real causes of the London riots : joblessness, failures in the education system, etc etc blah blah blah.

Below is my letter to him (you can email him yourself here) :


To John Burns at the Times :

Sir :

I just listened to your video explanation of the London riots.

You are a eunuch Sir, and your mealy-mouthed, spineless definition of what ails Britain is so disastrously off the mark that you should be ashamed of yourself.

The Times goes to shameful lengths to downplay the reality of the racial angle of these "incivilities," as the French would say (they know a thing or two).

It is unfair to your readership, it is unfair to the mostly black and immigrant-background  "youths" responsible for practically all the violent bits (they have nothing but contempt for your weakness), and it is unfair to Western Civilization to carry on in such a pussified, politically correct way.

The world needs balls right now. You clearly have none. So step aside and let people like Derbyshire explain what's really going on :

tiny.cc/c267f

Sincerely,

- Arturo de Geaube


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To which Mr. Burns replied a few hours later with this :

Subject : Balls
From: johnfisherburns@compuserve.com

If that's the measure you take of a man, man up yourself and use your real name.

JB

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Now, you'll note that Burns doesn't take issue with the central complaint of my email to him. Instead, he seems more concerned about me talking about his balls, or lack thereof, than the criminal disinformation that people like him spew through the pages of the Times. 

I haven't replied yet, but when I do I will remind him that the reason that I have to go nameless in such a missive, is that to do otherwise would be to risk career suicide. 

Supporting the establishment as he does, and its mealy-mouth approach to multi-culturalism, is a guaranteed source of professional promotion and back-slapping a-plenty from the ruling elites. 

Burns: a good old-fashioned hypocrites in the time-honoured mould of Amerika's newspaper of record.