Your ar­ti­cle by Sascha Wil­son of Wednes­day 23, page A11, prompts me to sound a warn­ing to stu­dent blog­gers and the me­dia to pay par­tic­u­lar at­ten­tion to the di­ver­sion­ary tac­tics of our more as­tute politi­cians whose pol­ished arts of gim­mick­ry and pos­tur­ing could es­cape the un­sus­pect­ing.

The Chair­man of the COP, Car­olyn Seep­er­sad-Bachan at­tempt­ed to side step the is­sue of the Mu­radali in­ci­dent by open­ly chastis­ing stu­dent blog­gers for choos­ing to re­main anony­mous, as is their right, in their calls for ac­tion on the mat­ter.

The main is­sue, how­ev­er, was the al­leged mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of the San Fer­nan­do May­or and un­til the facts are pre­sent­ed, the pub­lic will con­tin­ue to spec­u­late, anony­mous­ly and oth­er­wise; the lat­ter, all the more so, be­cause of fear of vic­tim­i­sa­tion.

The min­is­ter has there­fore "tried a thing" and on­ly suc­ceed­ed in com­pound­ing the prob­lem by seek­ing to high­light the is­sue of anonymi­ty of blog­gers. In ad­di­tion, she stat­ed that she has a se­ri­ous prob­lem with anony­mous blog­gers but the min­is­ter should be aware that her snob­bish­ness to­wards stu­dents and the me­dia is not be­com­ing of her of­fice.

Bruno Ma­haraj,

Up­per San­ta Cruz