I have been receiving a constant stream of emails since Thursday (22) from the good people of Croton and Peekskill people who either have been the targets of the bad people of those communities with a perverted, and self-justifying, sense of blogging, or simply are fed up with the nonsense these bogus blogs perpetrate in the name of heaven-knows-what. They’re not blogs, but bogs that their own hosts are stuck in and can’t get escape, and so try to pull others down to their mudslinging. Our advice is to totally ignore this nonsense. We do.
The emails coming our way express strenuous support of the “Salvo” we printed on page 8 of February 21-27 North County News. The vile Bums on a Blog, wherever they may lurk, lack that human quality called “the courage of your convictions.”
To those who blow smoke that blogs are inherently anonymous, ask them if that self-serving conceit also holds true for a phone call, or an email, or a letter to the editor of a newspaper. An anonymous phone call harassing or threatening someone is punishable by law. So is use of the U.S. mails for the same purpose. Newspapers as a standard practice do not publish letters to the editor that are unsigned. You know why certain, illegitimate blog hosts desperately protest that anonymity is “OK”? Because the Internet is unregulated and remains the last refuge of such scoundrels.
Not to worry. This much is guaranteed: those amateurishly anonymous bogs, those blights on the landscape, those pollutants of civil discourse, foisted by ne’er-do-wells you wouldn’t want to associate with under the best of circumstances, are not long for this world wide web. Gutless wonders wear out their welcome sooner than later, and don’t have the perseverance to stick with it.
Bums on a Blog are crass acts having a grand ole time, at the expense of others who are class acts for standing up for what they believe in. Bums on a Blog are hypocrites who can dish it out but can’t take it, and who believe only in being too afraid to attach their name to what they say. They are sad cases to be pitied, even as they mimic adolescents and bigots by mocking their betters under the cover of incognito cowardice.
As for elected officials who lack the sound judgment to not associate themselves with the unsavory crowd that sustains anonymously-hosted blogs, and who should be denouncing them instead as not hospitable to decent, honest people of good will, you don’t need me to tell you what message to send such beclouded public servants on Election Day.
