Dear Charles,

Having just read Alexander Cockburn's article

in the Los Angeles Times this morning on

your stand on genetically modified crops,

I feel compelled to write in support.

Although I am most disquieted on the idea of

introducing "Frankenstein foods" onto

the public's dinner plate by stealth,

I feel that Prime Minister Blair's "order" to

close down your web site is even more worrying.

This is an appalling violation of the right to free

speech together with

the unfettered dissemination of vitally pertinant information,

especially when it comes to matters of

personal and public health. Blair's

attitude is more at home in, for example,

the old Soviet Union, China or Myannmar,

and absolutely NOT in a country which has

any pretence at democracy and decency.

As here in the United States, it seems as if

there is no controlling the corporate juggernaut

as it rolls inexorably onward. Multinationals,

are becoming increasingly immune to any form

of policing or accountability to the public,

and are gradually replacing the role of legitimately elected

representatives seemingly all over the world,

(as well as moulding the public perception of

history).

When our supposedly elected representatives

suspend the most basic of democratic rights

in favour of not inflicting damage on the bottom line

of a transnational corporation, it's goodbye to

civilization and hello to something very sinister

indeed. Dare I call it Fascism?

I am very aware of the tactics and methods

of Monsanto and others. Please carry on

your fight; it is the only moral

and ethical thing to do in the face of

jackboot corporate control of society and

the frankly horrifying implications this

type of regime could have on the entire

planet within the not too distant future.

Your very sincerely,

Nicholas D. Havercroft Green.