To the editors: (Daily Mail)
I would like to know what kind of government it is that discriminates between political bullying and societal bullying and makes a charge that the worst offenders are the street bullies, when they have picked up their bad attitudes from the political thugs that look down upon everyone else from their opera boxes?
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Note: I find it curious that the editors deleted this comment posted on 24/9/10. Perhaps I am too harsh in my assessment for their publication. Perhaps they misread my question to mean that I think all political people and your government in particular are “political thugs,” and in impeccable bad taste. Perhaps the editors of the Daily Mail are too self-conscious about where they stand in the middle of their tightly knit community. Perhaps they just didn’t know how to take it. Perhaps they are just snobs.
As a born citizen of the UK that’s OK with me. I have been discriminated against before in more ways than one. One was being a wop. You should not be so mean spirited, after all, you asked for comments and I tried not to be personal. Will you let it stand this time? Or am I just a coxcomb flinging a pot of paint in the public face? Nevertheless, nothing written these days ever goes away – it is available elsewhere - sooner or later posterity will judge the efficacy of my words, but I hardly think it will be sooner. I am of no importance to your community or to the world.
I apologize to the British people that I have had to write this note. It obscures my original point.
The original comment appeared at:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1314130/The-epidemic-hate-crimes-vulnerable-reveals-callousness-heart-society.html
Dom Giovanni
Irish Italian poet
Wooster, Ohio, America
