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We all know people who have made a difference to our lives, either way.
Those who make a difference for people's good, we call Saints: those who have demonstrated selfishness, greed or plain old spite and malice we call Sinners.
This is the column for you to recommend both kinds of people. All you need do is list the name of the person - celebrity, friend, local idiot - and justify why he or she should be a Saint or a Sinner.
Saints
I nominate the kid who sent the actor Adam Woodyatt 20p in the post recently.
In the TV soap EastEnders, Ian Beale (played by Adam) has been declared bankrupt. He was left on his uppers sitting on a park bench, literally with just the clothes on his back.
A news report came in of a lad, aged seven or eight, who sent him a letter. Inside, sellotaped to the letter, was 20p to help get Ian Beale back on his feet.
Although misguided, the generosity of the little tyke shone through - and Adam Qoodyatt was sufficiently touched to return the 20p with interest to reward the little one for his kind act.
Dada
Sinners
I nominate Les Entartistes, for being proof to the public that anarchists really are mentally subnormal freaks who have a soap phobia and no fucking lives.
During a recent programme about David Icke, where he went to Canada to promote his latest work, Les Entartistes were hired by some very dodgy characters who were perfectly willing to sacrifice the principles of democracy and freedom of speech to attempt to silence Mr Icke.
If a person's religious vision lacks substantiability or any sort of evidence whatsoever, it should stand or fall by its own efforts. If a religious tract is poorly constructed, its own followers should eventually be able to pick out the holes in any arguments and drift off.
Not so the coalition who hired the Les Entartistes hitmen to try to silence this hapless man by force. In this case, the assassination attempt was death by custard pie while he signed books in a Canadian bookstore.
It is a measure of the incompetence, both of Les Entartistes and their thoroughly discredited employer, that the (character) assassination attempt missed Mr Icke, and hit the children's section instead. Now if these wannabe hitmen had used real bullets ...
Les Entartistes are definitely Sinners. Whether by custard pie, Molotov cocktail or by gunshot, an attempt to silence a person by force of violence violates every sacred principle of democracy; each such hit takes away a little more of the rights and freedoms we all take for granted.
I adore anarchy, and have been a lifelong Anarchist. Les Entartistes don't represent me at all. Anyone who holds a weapon, wields muscle and force and tries to silence another forsakes their right to be called "Anarchist," at least in my book.
Fiat Knox,
Editor - in - Chief, Adeptus Magazine.
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