St. Maarten Private Eye

With a sense of annoyance and disgust, I read a letter to the editor the Daily Herald of this morning, Tuesday, July 03, 2007. Whether or not the article itself is truthful or not, to me is not relevant for my disgust for the character or lack thereof of the writer, using the name a “FLEMING as a most obvious disguise.
Personally, I Leopold JAMES and our organization the SNBF/ L’Esprit de Concordia as well our radio-program NATIONtalk, have always distanced ourselves from anonymous letters to the editor as well as from people calling in at our program refusing to identify themselves. We simply do not accept, nor tolerate.

Consequently, we rather have no-one calling in, or having to close down our program, if that would be the price, but we loathe ‘twilight acts’ I believe that people using anonymity or false identities as a ‘cover’, while assassinating the characters of others, are cowards and very poisonous to any self-respecting society. This, because, while they usually attack and defame the reputation of others, they themselves hide in the darkness, afraid to identify themselves and to defend their accusations.

In any self-respecting country or society, this vive and evil should be exposed and destroyed, because it contributes towards an atmosphere of darkness, malediction, distrust, suspicion of innocent people and the like. In addition, it sets a tremendously bad example for our young people, knowing that it must be an adult writing these type of anonymous letters.

Although, I can go on and on and on, I will end by pointing out that in my opinion editors and talk-show hosts themselves have a responsibility not to give these type of elements who make personal attacks any opportunity to do such, unless they publish or mention their names as well. While, we believe that people in general have the right to question and to be critical of public-figures, doing such on a level playing field is a matter of fairness to all and makes everyone accountable, also the ‘pitcher’ of the ‘attack-balls’.

Obviously, those afraid of identifying themselves, know that they have nothing valuable to contribute, otherwise, they would feel proud to share it with the world. So, a word from the ‘wise’.
If you can not feel proud of, and defend your very own thoughts, who can /
In that case, please spare the world having to read your indefensible thoughts, or having to listen to them, but listen to others who at least have the courage to defend what they believe in and to consequently identify themselves.
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Leopold JAMES