Agreed, we acknowledge "two wrongs" however, in our quick condemnation, we risk losing sight of the first wrong. The point am making is that official statements released in condemning the "second wrong" should not be made in a way that sanitises the "first wrong". I have personal experiences of how media runs to "press freedom" to get the "first wrong" to disappear. The perpetrators of the "second wrong" must be punished as prescribed by the law so that we do not have a repeat of either wrongs. ;-) Wainaina

-------Original Message------- From: Eric Osiakwan <eric@afrispa.org> Subject: Re: [Kictanet] Re: Burning and Closure of Standard Media Group Sent: 02 Mar '06 12:59

Wainaina,

Please permit me to differ with you.

The civilised world has resolved to ensure that there are due processes subject to the rule of law by which we deal with such reculcitrant elements of our deomocratic experiment so to ignore such consitutional and instituional mechanisms is worse a precident as the acts of the reculcitrant element being subj