The Editor The Australian   Dear Sir   A couple of terrorists shooting Jews, to the cry of 'Allahu Akbar'.  Who could these people be, and what is their motive?  The police, as usual, are totally baffled.  The media also seem unable to identify the culprits.  Who are they protecting?  Are they Baptists?  Quakers?  Buddhists?  Adventists?   Everyone seems to like the emperor's new outfit.   Richard Stokes

The Editor New York Times Dear Sir Daily we see vociferous representatives claiming that people who happen to be of a certain colour should pay reparations for slavery to people of a different colour. That is, there are activists (many of whom are quite well-fed) who want money without working for it.  To be paid by people who offended no one, yet who must work while the products of their labour go to the first group. In the words of Dinesh D'Souza, you work, I eat. It seems