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Mar 31, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
Your headline of my letter in today’s edition of your newspaper is misleading. Here is the definition of whistleblower: “is a person who exposes any kind of information or activity that is deemed illegal, unethical, or not correct within an organization that is either private or public. The information of alleged wrongdoing can be classified in many ways: violation of company policy/rules, law, regulation, or threat to public interest/national security, as well as fraud, and corruption. My reference was to government officials who are in receipt of these reports and are obligated under the law to keep them confidential; to paid members of COI’s and those paid to conduct audits whose responsibility it is to submit their findings to a competent authority and not leak these to the media. Please correct this misleading headline.
Wesley Kirton

Editor’s note:  Maybe Mr. Kirton did not re-read his letter in his response. In the definition of “whistle-blowing that he cited above, the following words were provided by Mr. Kirton; “is a person who exposes any kind of information or activity that is deemed illegal, unethical, or not correct within an organization.”
Yet against his own definition, Mr. Kirton wrote in his orginal letter, the following; “I am tired of all these leaked media reports of findings of  WRONG –DOINGS.’ We emboldened the word wrong-doing so Mr. Kirton can juxtapose it against his own definition of whistle-blowing which states; “any kind of information or activity that is deemed illegal, unethical or not correct.”
The leaking of information on WRONG-DOING (Mr. Kirton’s word) by public servants and others who feel that the wrong-doing should be exposed is what constitutes whistle-blowing. We stand by our interpretation of Mr. Kirton’s original letter that he wants people who leak information on WRONG-DOING (Kirton’s word) to be punished.
We would like to inform Mr. Kirton that the role of the letter section of the newspaper is not only to accommodate the views of only of those who want to praise government but those who want to expose governmental conspiracies which the public ought to know about. We find it unfortunate that Mr. Kirton, a journalist by profession, would want governments to punish citizens who leak information about secret conspiracies of the state.

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