A Complaint against SIGIS

[*Cadence]

In the editorial section, a letter sent to SIGIS has been posted, along with the response:

This letter has been long in coming. Many should have sent it before me but, things as they are, better late than never.

Your Paper is naught but a poorly worded joke. You have shown zero standards and you have shown zero interest in editing, proofing or otherwise verifying anything at all. Any berk can simply put what they wish in the paper from unverified stories to unsubstantiated rumors to outright threats. People posting inarticulate stories under the guise of others or simply anonymous rants verified by no one.

IÂ’m actually hoping there is an editor for this note to reach as judging by the paperÂ… absolutely nothing ever gets edited at all. Has your paper no standards or is it simply a public bulletin board that is a free for all?

You should, at the very least, ensure anything printed in your paper is truth. A great many people are harmed daily by your inability to maintain even a fraction of control over the content you print. I foresee a time in the near future where your organization and those who run it, are brought before the courts to answer for their part in crimes committed against others due to that which is printed under the permission of your position. By permitting such things to be printed under your watch, you open yourself to charges such as accomplice, negligence, slander and various other crimes listed in the FraternityÂ’s books. Do not think, even for a second, that these things cannot happen.

For the record I wish you to print an apology to the Iron Tusk for permitting them to be falsely represented by one not even associated with them in an attempt to cause them a great deal of harm. The advert for the Bombers, under the Iron Tusk name, was nothing but rubbish created only to case harm and permitted to be printed by your organization without thought for the consequences.

Should the advert not be publically apologized for, the Consortium will launch a lawsuit against your organization and your leaders for slander, unlawful impersonation of a member of the Iron Tusk, unlawful impersonation of a member of the Consortium, Printing death threats under the guise of another, printing under false pretenses, and a host of other charges currently being investigated.

I do hope you see the error of your ways and assume some responsibility for your paper in the future.

Charles Goodman

[*Cadence]

Salutations Charles Goodman,

The advertisement section is not as closely edited or verified for truth, and indeed is a public message board as you state (though we still try to represent the advertisers accurately). The news articles, however, are meticulously done so. I nether confirm nor deny the veracity of the advertisement as I do not have the facts. The only mistake SIGIS made was not double checking the source of the advertisement as it was turned in anonymously. It is for that mistake solely that I apologize.

Now does that mistake lend any weight to your accusation of calling our fine newsrag a “joke?” If so, then by that very same standard I shall call your knowledge of the Fraternity’s books a joke.

Allow me to edify you from excerpts in the FraternityÂ’s books:

Slander: oral defamation, in which someone tells one or more persons an untruth about another which untruth will harm the reputation of the person defamed.

Libel: defamation by written or printed words, pictures, or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures.

If anything, you would sue us for Libel, and not Slander. For further clarification on these definitions you may refer to the most recent codex of Sigilian law, or speak to any first year law-student. I would also suggest you actually familiarize yourself with the FraternityÂ’s books before threatening to use them against SIGIS.


Furthermore: the writers of SIGIS are exempt from such a definition because we did not write the advertisement – we were deceived into publishing it. Finally, the very premise of the advertisement being defamation remains to be seen – as I stated earlier, I do not have the facts and will not so quickly absolve the Iron Tusk or its associates of terrorist activities.


Mr. Goodman, as I have demonstrated – everyone, yourself included makes mistakes. If I were to defame you in the legal sense, I would have written numerous articles on your remaining financial ties to criminal Hildmor D’kridis, or various Anarchists cells located in the Hive - framing them as fact when in fact they are not confirmed as factual, but merely based on thousands of rumors. Within these hypothetical articles, I would have been sure to elaborate on your incompetence in D’Kridis’s legal trials in which the prosecution dealt with the defendant you were representing with alarming ease ---the very same incompetence that you demonstrate in your threats of suing SIGIS for… ‘slander.’

If I were to write those articles and represent them as truth, then that would truly be defamation, good sir. That would be Libel.

I hope you find the apology for accidentally misrepresenting the Iron Tusk satisfactory. I also hope that the Iron Tusk isnÂ’t guilty of the alleged activities. Finally, I hope this response is educational for you, as you continue your much needed studies of the FraternityÂ’s books.


Have a pleasant day,

Seamus Keller
Editor in Chief, SIGIS