Over the last month, we have received a variety of angry phone and e-mail messages about our March issue. Recently, some of these have been targeting an individual member of our collective with personal threats.
Anyone is welcome to criticize us as a group. We print almost every letter we receive; this is perhaps unfortunate for those critics who have nothing to back up their argument other than racism (for example, those who tell us it is brave to attack Islam because Muslims are violent) or homophobia (from those whose prejudice is so intense that they find the idea of a gay Jesus inherently offensive) and have their bigotry exposed for all to see, but we will nonetheless open the forum to their opinions.
However, we will not allow any person within our group to be attacked. We are not a hierarchy. There is no individual entitled to full credit or complete blame for anything we produce. We are a collective. If you attempt to single out one of us, you will have to deal with all of us.
Pira Kelly, Sam Whitehill, Nathaniel Clucas, John Walsh, Damien Kemp, Don Goldman
The Insurgent Collective