Personal attack letters are wrong
To the editor:
I was appalled to read personal attack published on Oct. 30. Clearly the author knows nothing about R.O.A.R or Susan Jacoby McGuire. I do.
I have seen Susan volunteering her time to help children, elderly people and immigrants who work long and hard in the fields and on the palm plantations. She advocates for clean water so that we can fish and enjoy the birds and the beach. She spends countless hours working for the good of our community. The letter writer has the wrong person.
R.O.A.R. is a group of 405 people, many of them men, who are devoted to upholding our constitutional rights including equality under the law. R.O.A.R members also advocate at both state and federal levels for a clean environment and an end to corruption in politics. The letter writer got that wrong too.
Finally is good journalism dead? I thought the first rule for letters to the editor was “no personal attacks.” The discourse in this country has sunk to such a crude level, that we are forgetting all our manners and ethical standards. Shame on you for participating in this. This country is not great right now. It’s not even good. People attack others publicly and on social media with no knowledge of the other person or what they stand for.
Both the Pine Island Eagle and the author of that letter should apologize publicly and privately to Susan Jacoby McGuire. You won’t find a more excellent, ethical, giving, kind, devoted and selfless person on this island. It would be a start toward making America good again.
Isabel Francis
Bokeelia