But with the grisly details now in the public domain, and Letwin – exposed by the spotlight of a public records release – now spluttering his apologies, there is rich irony in the revelation that he fought to deny communities government assistance.
"It permeates and destabilises the social fabric of developing societies and denies communities their rightful aid".
In other words, state legislatures may be wrong to deny communities the right to build their own broadband networks but the federal government has no right to interfere.
If we silently allow our media landscape to perpetuate harmful, inaccurate portrayals of people of color, we reinforce a status quo that denies communities of color the full scope of their humanity.
Despite the Supreme Court's District of Columbia v. Heller ruling striking down Washington, D.C.'s 32-year-old handgun ban, the Second Amendment of the Constitution does not deny communities the right to enact gun control laws designed to protect public safety.
Moreover, the devotion of the protected areas to partial or strict nature reserves is counterproductive and is denying local community and indigenous people's access to non-timber forest products, which are key to their livelihood.
There is evidence of government institutions routinely denying this community access to state-issued documents for arbitrary reasons like having a Haitian-sounding last name and for having non-straightened hair if you're a woman.
"It smells a lot like a certain quadrant of the denier community," he said.
However, he argues, Gore's political background "allowed the denier community to turn climate change into a political football.
Yes, the climate-denier community, funded by big oil, has published all sorts of bogus science for years — and the world never made a fuss.
The denier community hailed the revelations as "Climategate".
