“Dear Ms. Vogel,

Thank you for your email and for wanting to clear up this matter with us directly. We highly appreciate that.

Our organization is “EcoPeace / Friends of the Earth Middle East” and our website is http://www.foeme.org. We are indeed a regional organization of Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian environmentalists working towards protection of our shared environmental heritage. And we are indeed promoting a Jordan River Peace park.

We are NOT however, “Friends of the Earth Middle East (Eco Peace) England”. We do not know who they are, and they are using our name, illegally, I might add. Notice that there is no web link to that organization in the “Harry’s Place” site. No wonder…

And of course we do NOT support the ‘Final Declaration of the Beirut Resistance Forum’, or any such document related to its message.

We are happy to be linked to your Greens Engage blogroll, and do hope that you keep us on. We certainly have similar views.

I hope I have cleared up this unfortunate misuse of our name, and again, I thank you for writing to us directly.

Sincerely,
Mira Edelstein
Resource Development
Friends of the Earth Middle East”

You obviously have not been paying attention to what the Green Party has become since it joined in the fun in the StWC and it is not anything to do with ecology. I expect you will be campaigning fiercely to overthrow their current vicious and racist tainted anti-israel policies and an anti-semitic leadership who have hijacked your party. Good luck with that.

BTW CND and FoE are no better either. Unsurprisingly they have also been hijacked by the exact same element, often the same individuals.

Neither, it seems, is environmentalism.

Pre-’98 bootlegs of course, m’lud.

Black metal ain’t what it used to be, to be honest. Back in the old days……

If I recall correctly, isn’t Naess one of those “self-realization” chappies who thinks that everything living has an equal right to life?

I don’t think much of that as a philosophy.

“If it pleases the court, I will submit my collection of Cradle Of Filth bootlegs as mitigating factors.”

On the other hand, the Deep Greens (e.g. Arne Naess, Sea Shepards), the VHEMT folks, Lovelock and other chaps who are actively involved in conservation, even folks like the Forestry Comission are true friends of the planet. Sod Hamas for bringing back cruxification for “morality crimes”, bring back cruxification for anyone cutting down or damaging a tree (outside of a renewable and designated crop forest)

I would however like to correct a grave slur upon my name upthread. A certain disreputable fellow (who rumour has it wears slacks and cardigans in conjunction with brown shoes) made the questionable and contemptible assertion that I ‘like’ the popular beat combo known as ‘Cradle of Filth’.

This is a gross slur and libel.

Let the record show that I have NOT seen them more than three times in a live setting and indeed I do NOT in fact like Bucket O’Shite. Well, anything released after ‘Cruelty and the Beast’ in ‘98, that is. Before that, they were quite good actually.

Disgraceful slurs indeed.

Harrumph.

Yours, Disgusted of Hammersmith.