Land matters must be handled properly
PETER DONIGI I finally made it into the editorial, “Not so fast, Donigi” (The National, May 24). The fourth estate has always considered bad news to be good news. And so, it is that to suggest something innocuous or in passing should warrant the highest esteem of an editor of this estate. This is so when he has to use his editorial privilege to edit out my commentary on the Christian principles that we have also adopted in our constitution. I would have preferred his diatribe on the religious philosophy that poverty is a created outcome of the religious curse which states “cursed is the person who moves his neighbour’s boundary stone”. He chose to edit this statement, “Lawyer supports Boka Kondra bill” (May 24) and proceeded to castigate me in his editorial based on the philosophy that a “beggar wrapped in purple whom ignorant people take for a king” is more worthy of his paramount interest. He states conditions on burial of bodies “is utter disrespect in the ancient traditio