Former Perussuomalaiset* and today Center Party councilperson Tanja Hartonen’s attack on me is a good example of political revenge aimed at silencing me and Migrant Tales. I am sure that all these made-up stories about what I said at city committee meeting will not stand the light of day. The truth is that Hartonen became furious with me at the meeting and raised her voice and would not let me say a word. As she has fabricated with the blessings of the local newspaper Länsi-Savo, I never stood up from the table and I never called him a racist. Länsi-Savo’s reporter Elina Partio, has shown her worst and most biased side in her reporting. Shame on her and the newspaper. My mistake, of course, was to remind Hartonen that he once wrote some pretty offensive articles. I founded Migrant Tales in 2007 and you can find a lot of writing there, over 5 000 posts. An important reminder to Länsi-Savo: when you leave out the context of news stories, you leave the door open to bias.
