Dear Editor
Re: HarperCat art piece angers Burnaby readers, Burnaby NOW, Jan. 27.
I don’t see how the creator of the object in question can get off by saying, “It’s water under the bridge,” when it is currently in an art exhibition and on the front page of a newspaper.
Following that logic, so are the First and Second World Wars (I know, I know – apples and oranges) etc., etc.
An offence is still an offence, crimes are still crimes, bad taste is still bad taste, etc., and I’m so sorry our “freedoms” give us the right to be disgusting.
As I said earlier, I’m not in favour of many of the things done by the Harper government nor how they were done, but there’s no call for such a nasty depiction as this. I rest my case.
Sharon Hempell, Burnaby
