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| An Asinine Bigot |
“Just now I can tell you that neither your political boss nor your
employer, neither the capitalist nor the policeman will speak to you honestly
about anarchism. Most of them know
nothing about it, and all of them hate it.”
Alexander Berkman, What is Anarchism?
In honouring vested traditions of reactionary maltreatment, the voice of
19 year old blogger Kinnan Zaloom has been effectively curtailed by an asinine
bigot. Kinnan, a now ex-student of
Hampstead School in London, came under fire from headteacher Jacques Szemalikowski
who felt, undoubtedly, threatened by the disparaging opinions propagated by
Zaloom's blog: The Hampstead Trash.
Under the online pseudonym 'Sludge', Zaloom highlighted and criticised
the apparent failures of the school, such as inadequate educational standards, inappropriate use of funds and the bankruptcy of care and respect in accounting
for the points of view of other students.
Szemalikowski defended his course of action by citing the student's
'enchantment by anarchism' and his fear of Zaloom 'developing into an anarchist'.
Naturally, such disgraceful ideas only warrant the harshest of
retributions; so, along with permanent exclusion from the school, Szemalikowski
also reported the thought-crime to the local police and personally contacted
Glasgow university, forewarning them of 'what sort of person they were dealing
with', should they ever consider him as an applicant. A charming fellow indeed!
The Hampstead Trash blog was subsequently blocked on school
computers, but continues to be updated by an anonymous student.
