Will have to give you a date and time that I sent an off-line Email to site monitor using my law firm signature, since the page/thread is no longer in my memory.

On Thirs 5/29 at 11:40 pm O wrote off-line that I had just read the following words

“Hope Barry isn't running around with the hos too much these days”

The above sentence is a direct cust and pasate into my Email.

It was not directed to me but rather to a Poster dsicussing Barack Obama to whom ShawnWM directed his post

"[Dear] Mrs. Obama" {I cannot recall if the word "dear" was in the title line.

On that thread, another poster named Jeffersonian had finallyh confronted DawnWM with a group of about 16 names he had used in prior post -

included among those collected terms cited from ShawnWM was the term

"nigger"

Jeffersonian and I had a small conversation on that thread - wherever it was,'

I sent a second complaint - also on my law firm Email - after a poster at another thread began discussing with a third poster some of the inflammatory posts by ShawnWM.

I hope some of this guidance is of helpl you are welcome to do research as you wish. It may be that by this time some of his posts from Glenn Greenwald, Joan Walsh and other locales have been picked up and deleted; I certainly hope so.

At this point I make the same recommendation everywhere I see that moniker. I apologize in advance for any syntactical / spelling errors as it is late and this is a long post.

check out this '06 interview of Flynt Leverett on US foreign [non]policy by the non-partisan Counsel on Foreign Relations.

Leverett [NDC/STate/CIA wonk] discusses the unfortunate results of a willingness to subordinate US national interests to an unchanging ideology:

http://www.cfr.org/publication/10326/

there is little to be gained except the personal knowledge that you have followed your conscience. Nonetheless, if the below history sheds light on anything it is that - despite the fact that the heirarchical world pays only lip service to your thoughts and often uses the knowledge you impart to punish you as whistleblower, that open door still must not be allowed to languish unused.

Here is a link to the history of two other men's brave refusal to ignore an open door policy - and instead, to stand up for personal integrity - at West Point. They too failed but only becuase of the shameful behavior of others entrusted with an open door policy.

Their bravery was never written in any of the history books in my classes, but it may salve your sense of having stood up for a sense of principle. But we can read from this beautifully written posting on their lives. And we can read their letters. And we can remember than and honor them by continuing to stand up for principle in our own lives.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/15/7944/79772/503/534441

and

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/african/flipper/james_smith.htm

hats off to you. Just one final caution: consider the idea of picking your battles so that you survive and prosper; preserve peace as necessary to your own happiness. I too got burned by a fraudulent open door policy where concerns over a manager's practices were fed directly back to the manager. But I was lucky and was able to laugh, hold my head high in a direct 'conference' with said small person - while complementing my contribution to the group; then resign as pre-planned but just early enough to cause her some discomfort, and move along to an already pre-planned and more interesting chapter that could not be tainted by such poison. But know that I had worked in the poison for four years before engineering my departure, so my comments - and the resulting betrayal of a fraudulent open door policy - had no actual effect on my subsequent career path. But my luck is not available to most. MORAL: Preserving one's mental health is extremely important. The balance between mental health and retaining your pride can be tough - ergo, my four years of obeisance.