Tuesday, May 15, 2012

What Price Privacy

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Posthumous...Not Quite":

A lot of private individuals are maligned on this web site. I hope Ms Buck (as moderator) has insurance.

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Au contraire, mon ami

People who project themselves into the political arena are not private.. I am one for example.  Every  comment I make is subject to  critical analysis and  may be commented upon by any other citizen.I was not forced into  the role.

When Catherine Marshall joined the public debate in a letter to the editor,  after  the St Kitts deluge of unsubstantiated allegations and unfounded accusations, permitted in a public, televised meeting by her friend and admirer,the former Mayor about this time three years ago. 

 Ms Marshall  freely entered the  arena. 

One of the more repellent aspects of the situation was  that my grand-daughter was present for  a spectacle that degraded  everyone present.

Ms  Marshall offered later in  said  letter to the editor  that my grand-daughter was not disturbed . 

The experience might very well have been adverse  for Hayley girl
had she witnessed  grand mother participate in the shameful 
display. 

She did not.

On a motion , Council quickly moved beyond the episode  to cheerful presentation of awards for art excellence to the group of  children. They were ten years old . The joyful  occasion was not  tarnished by an action of mine. Or any sign  the attack  had caused personal distress. 

Catherine Marshall,  ironically,probably a judge of the art, had no such compunction .when she wrote the letter to the editor attempting to minimize the impact. 

Privacy is  surrendered when one jumps on all fours, uninvited, into  a mud-wrestling pit  that was Aurora's political arena for the past four years.     

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