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NB: Ples ge keep le .. more Letters to the Editor its" Letters to the Editor more Prior to my first and only arrest | connections in Australia and/or | as if having to bring up kids | only concern now is that this that led to my incarceration, I was | New Zealand where I can reach | wasn’t worthwhile work in itself) | information is not reaching all a co-owner of California's number | people of like mind? I would be | has worsened the situation. those that it should. This also one pest-control company. I | overjoyed to be able to correspond | No one doubts the goodwill and | goes to prove that it's still a man's enjoyed a stress-free middle class | with people that reflect the con- | high ideals of the staff involved, | world. life. Well, in the early 1990s I | scious awareness levels of the | but—as John Taylor Gatto sug- | I enjoy your magazine. What decided to experiment with some | Australian NEXUS reader. If any | gests—the system is simply | you guys do is commendable. non-chemical application alterna- | of you folks have any ideas, any | stacked against them. Veronica W., Two Wells, SA, tives in respect to creating a non- | places that I can write to, to put | But whilst there are free thinkers | Australia lethal protective barrier around | me in contact with people of like | such as Mr Gatto around, there is homes and businesses for the pre- | mind in your part of the world, | still hope. Also, the rapid devel- | Smear Campaign is a ‘Joke’! vention of infestation of target | well please send them to me— | opment of the Internet, with its | Dear Duncan: I have been sub- pests such as rats, mice, bats and | anything from ET channellers to | emphasis on the democracy of scribing to NEXUS ever since I various insects as well. olistic/homoeopathic medical | information (all information has | first picked up a copy a few years I received my inspiration for pest | Practitioners. Thank you very | merit, not just the 'chosen' infor- ago, and I have never been disap- management from magnetic field | much! mation filtered and censored for | pointed with an issue yet. I feel theories of the late Rudolph | Your Brother in Light and | use in schools), may result in new | compelled to write this in response Steiner, as well as the works of the | Information, openings for a more egalitarian | to your Editorial in vol. 4/04, basi- metaphysical science researchers | Jeff Harmon, H62471, CTF | education in the next century. cally to reassure you that at least at the Findhorn community in | Central, Y203, PO Box 689, / Anyone interested in pursuing | some of your readers have their Scotland. A friend of mine who | Soledad, CA 93960, USA this further can contact me at the | own minds and can distinguish the works for NASA assisted me with | [Dear Jeff: I hope this publica -| address below. difference between a smear cam- experiments at various residences | tion of your letter attracts like- | Yours sincerely, paign and investigative journal- of established customers who were | minded readers. Good luck! Ed.] Andrew G. Stephenson, ism. interested in prevention and con- Grassroots, 9 Southdown Rd, | Iam not surprised that NEXUS trol of rodents and insects without | Education or Indoctrination? Newhaven, East Sussex BN9 9JH, | is being attacked by the media; in the use of poison baits and chemi- | Dear Duncan: I have been read- | England, UK fact, I'm surprised this hasn't hap- cal compounds. ing NEXUS for eight months now, pened long before now, as it So we tried the Steiner magnetic | and I have to say that the June- | Renewed Life after the Pill always does when people publish field applications along with cer- | July '97 issue (4/04) was the best | Dearest Duncan: Many, many | the truth and expose people whose tain herbal boundaries and some | yet. thanks for Sherrill Sellman's arti- | Credibility relies on the truth being of the metaphysical approaches |” [In particular, John Taylor Gatto's | cle, "A Bitter Pill to Swallow: | concealed. that proved successful to the | article, "Why Schools Don't |The Oral Contraceptives | However, it is the way it is done Fin horn garden researchers. Our | Educate", was seminal in its Betrayal", June-July '97 issue | that I have to find funny, and what experiments were a success! importance and followed in the | (4/04). The question that keeps I do find amazing is that anyone But then disaster struck when a footsteps of educators such as | coming to me is, "Why is this drug would gull for such obvious lies. I confidential source reported our | Illich and the current educational | legal?” With so much medication | Mean, to term your magazine as unapproved alternative pest-con- | bestseller, In Place of Schools. | withheld from the public because | "right-wing extremist" has got to trol experiments to the State Pest | As a teacher myself, I found the | of possible (informed!) side- | bea joke, hasn't it? Control Board. First the board | article inspiring. effects, how is it that so many | I remember when the same thing stripped me of my pest control | The plain fact of the matter is | women are allowed to consume | was done to David Icke and licences and fined me thousands | that the large anonymous schools | this drug daily? This reeks of | Rainbow Ark magazine [UK]— of dollars for (get this!) endanger- | we currently support as a society | profiteering. interestingly, by the same people, ing the public environment with | are little more than prisons—both | After 15 years of using the Pill, | too. I also remember being a little my unapproved and unregistered | for the pupils and the staff. They | and three (planned) children later, confused about this myself at the equipment and natural herbal pest | are alienating in the way they cut | my husband, after much contem- | time. After all, the first two repellents. children off from their communi- | plation, decided he would forgo | copies of Open Eye magazine But that's not the worst of it. | ties for most of their waking life; | his manhood (or so he thought) | [UK] seemed quite informative, The County and State prosecutors | they are indoctrinating in the way | and have the dreaded snip-snip. It] €xcept for the smear on the above- then filed charges against me and I | that they demand obedience and | was the most wonderful thing he | mentioned. I actually sent the received six years in prison, five | conformism; they are elitist in pro- | could ever have done for me. money for a subscription and of which I have already served. | viding mostly a watered-down | The change in my mind and | Some extra information (about £25 Now I know how Wilhelm Reich | Victorian public-school education | body was remarkable. I no longer | in total) but received nothing in felt when he was wrongly impris- | of use only to the academic; final- | suffered depression, my weight | return. It was obvious to me then oned over orgone energy accumu- | ly, they preach competitiveness | dropped as my continual eating | that these guys are just con artists lator devices. and meritocracy instead of cooper- | declined, my tearful outbursts | and they are not to be taken seri- Anyhow, I have been trying for | ation and community. stopped, my libido is what I now | ously. . years how to find a way to reach | Above all, they rarely teach chil- | consider to be 'normal'—and, most | _I must say it bothers me that people in Australia and New | dren to be themselves, to think for | importantly, I no longer resent my | shopkeepers are being threatened Zealand that share my interest in | themselves and to decide for | children; I am filled with a love for selling NEXUS Magazine, but the paranormal, UFO research, | themselves what is important in | and patience for them that I am there you go; it's the price we have conspiracy theories, alternative | life. experiencing for the first time. to pay for the truth these days. medicine and energy, suppressed | The recent emphasis on league | My five-year-old summed up my | _ Be careful and keep up the good sciences and metaphysics. I | tables and naive political pro- | changed attitude when she said, | work! would like to ask the staff at | nouncements in favour of every- | "Mum, you don't shout at us any-| Sincerely, NEXUS if any of you are aware of | one being forced to join the eco- | more." My relationship with my | Helen M., London, England, any contact magazines/pen pal | nomic circus (even single mothers, | husband has improved, too. My | United Kingdom. NEXUS <5 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1997