George, you're wrong my dear. Your penchant for mischief has clouded your judgement.

A "charge" is a formal assertion that someone has committed a crime or at any rate an illegality. In our system, when you are charged your accuser has to make himself known. We don't inform on each other anonymously. It is one of the oldest tricks in the political book to accuse someone of something, anything and then pressure them into responding to an accusation, all of which begins to take on a life of its own.

Whoever posted that dirt on the chalkboard deserves to be ignored, not given space on your website. Or else they should make themselves known and offer some proof of what they say.

Your willingness and even relish in publishing it shows that you, like the rest of our miserable establishment media, are more interested in making trouble than in helping the process.

Mary MacNeil (electronic mail, February 19, 2002)