8.4.06

A worm's eye view, more like a moron's!

Like many people, time is limited and I have only just found out about this article written by a Guardian journalist called Andrew Brown. The link to the article is:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/wormseyeview/story/0,,1740743,00.html

My response to him is below:

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Mr Brown,

I read with interest your article in the Guardian entitled “A worm’s eye view”, for it never ceases to amaze me how journalists often miss the whole picture, when the hyperbole of sanctimonious drivel appends the page or violates the pixels of my computer screen. For I, my father and my partner attended the Freedom of Expression event in Trafalgar Square on Saturday and got a completely different impression to the one you published.

Of course, I was expecting to be called an extremist or even a racist for daring to stand up for something that my family have defended for centuries, namely the right to be heard and counted. However, to be labelled pathetic, surely that word is one that insults your own intelligence as does your supposed synopsis that the rally and my intention was to defend free speech simply to stir up hatred. I urge you to consider, as someone who sits all high and mighty in your ivory tower, that when you have been beaten-up because you’re gay by both fascist and Islamist thugs, the one thing you value is non-violence. I see the damage hate can do.

May I suggest to you, that in order to get a more accurate account of any future events, that you speak to the people there and ask them their reasons for attending, rather than the inaccurate picture painted in your article. As a writer and a published journalist, you have a duty to tell the truth and not to spread propaganda.

Yours sincerely,

Paul Bell

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