Re: NT Police Minister Mike Reed and an NT News article (September 18, 2000) complaining about political posters. When accessibility to the media is impossible (because they are as politically corrupt as the politicians one wishes to expose) street actions and the Internet are the only publicity options left.

I spoke to a reporter at the NT News about the racism on the Cox Peninsula. He seemed more concerned that the racist Mandorah Hotel was owned by a Mr Maddalozzo, (a millionaire developer) who also owns extensive land holdings on the Cox Peninsula.

Mr Maddalozzo is a man everyone on the Cox Peninsula -including the NT Police - seem to hold in awe or fear. He is infamous for bulldozing the camps of people (like myself) on the Cox Peninsula. Personally I believe Mr Maddalozzo to be just another greedy, cowardly fascist, who has thrived in the NT's corrupt and incestuous political environment.

Your reporter stated - when I explained that I had a number of complaints against locals on the Cox Peninsula with the Anti-Discrimination Commission - "...that none of them will make it." He was right.

How did he know this before the decisions were handed down? You people seem very well informed, perhaps you know who was responsible for sending the three armed thugs with a hire-truck to move me out of my home five years ago? A spokesperson for Mr Reed referred to PARIAH's earlier poster campaign and called us "left wing extremists". There is nothing extreme about protesting his CLP government's involvement with the mass murder, rape and torture of the East Timorese people. Even if they are 'only blacks', Mike. There is nothing particularity left wing about these protests or this point of view either. Does Mr Reed consider the Catholic Church to be a Communist front organization?

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The Country Liberal Party are the extremists - not us. As to the remarks about protesters being "vicious" and "twisted." In a racist-run society that ignores genocide, when there's money to be made, I guess we must seem a little strange.

PARIAH has never concentrated on your personal peccadilloes Mike, that's not our style. (Be grateful) Other political groups have other "styles." This is known as political diversity.

And to the Editor - How do you and your reporters justify your political censorship? How do you justify condoning 24 years of genocide in East Timor. How do you justify ignoring local injustices of which you seem so well informed?

Mick Lambe - Co-ordinator: PARIAH
People Against Racism In Aboriginal Homelands

(I wouldn't waste my time trying to get favourable publicity in the NT News) This is the only right of reply we get in this so-called democracy.