“I
think making the argument that this money is going to go to drug dealers is
kind of a red herring.” says
Sarah MacLachlan, House of Anansi president and publisher, as she offers a
free ebook to anyone contributing $5 or more to the extortionists jacking up
the price for their criminal video act.
She
naively posited that it was “kind of” a red herring. What kind of prose is
that? Wishy washy mediocrity. I would expect much better clarity from such a ‘professional’
position. Well, I guess that she is kind of a prosebag in this regard.
This
is not a Sarah project. It is a House of Anansi project. All members of their
outstanding stable of authors, as a matter of respect, would have been informed
of this action. The management of House of Anansi would normally have signed on
to this action as well.
No
doubt the House of Anansi consulted federal and/or provincial lawyers
concerning the ethics of a state-funded organization aiding and abetting the
purchase of a video from extortionists.
House
of Anansi is a paid agent of the state. Most of its august stable of authors
are also paid agents of the state.
In
1976, the Centre for
Experimental Art & Communications, with whom the Peoples
Republic of Poetry collaborated, ducked for cover when a group of anarchy-artists
published STRIKE
with a photo of Italian Aldo Moro dead in the trunk of a car, then penning a manifesto
in which they supported “kneecapping.” POOF!, no more arts grants. They were
radioactive.
I
fail to understand why the House of Anansi thinks this video produced by
unsavoury extortionists is worth risking the reputation it has built over so
many years. It is short-sighted.
The
House of Anansi should be as ethically exemplary as they demand of Ford.
Instead, the House of Anansi, has dragged its stable of writers down into the
muck and mediocre mire of yellow journalusts, or else the stable of writers all
agree that a good wallow in the mediocrity of this entire sorry Ford Fun &
Frolic.
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