For many months, Richard Warman of the Ontario Green Party, has been trying to intimidate bookshops and suppliers in North America to stop selling Children of the Matrix. He is now trying to do the same in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Warman, regular readers will recall, is the man who has tried, occasionally successfully, to stop me speaking - and the public hearing me speak - in several countries by dubbing me "Anti-Semitic." Apparently, according to this enemy of free speech, when I refer to "reptilians" I am really referring to "Jews"!!!! I know, I know, but those who saw his activities exposed in the UK Channel Four TV documentary earlier this year will understand what we are dealing with here.

Mr. Warman is threatening the bookshops and distributors with a libel action because his sensitivities appear to have been pricked by me calling him an enemy of freedom. Yes, no kidding, a man who tries to stop my free speech around the world and the public's right to listen, is complaining about being called an enemy of freedom. I know it's a laugh, but I refer you again to the TV documentary and all becomes clear.

Now, despite spending months trying to intimidate bookshops and suppliers into dropping Children of the Matrix, Mr. Warman has not ONCE contacted myself, the author, or the publisher to make any complaint whatsoever about the text or the references to himself. As the legal department of the biggest UK book distributor said to me: "This [behaviour] is illogical."

SO MR. WARMAN IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT THE BOOK, WHY HAVE YOU NOT FIRST CONTACTED THE AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER BEFORE MAKING THREATS TO BOOKSHOP OWNERS AND DISTRIBUTORS? WHY HAVE YOU NOT MADE YOUR COMPLAINTS TO US FIRST WHEN THE BOOK HAS NOW BEEN IN CIRCULATION FOR SEVEN MONTHS? THIS IS WHAT ANY RATIONAL PERSON WOULD DO, SURELY?

COME ON, SUNSHINE, LET'S HAVE YOU. DON'T BE SHY LIKE YOU WERE IN MONTREAL. LOST YOUR TONGUE THAT DAY DIDN'T YOU MR. WARMAN, WHEN YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO SAY IT ALL TO MY FACE AND NOT BEHIND MY BACK, EH? WHY WAS I NOT SURPRISED?

DAVID ICKE