Letters to the Editor
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@patg
i am not a proponent of free expression to the right of said date to be disruptive, but maybe he/she does have something to say.
Indeed s/he may have. And say, and say, and say yet again -- anywhere they want except my place if I deem it the right course of action is to bar them from my home. If the declarant is destroying the civil exchange of views in my home, they are out the door. Online the tolerance level is much higher than at one's dinner party, but the principle is the same.
I don't want folks avoiding my invitations to dinner because they know I allow angry and obsessed individuals to berate the others and destroy civil interaction. My invitees would then stop accepting the invitations. Similarly, Glenn has an interest in not allowing a few to destroy the integrity of his comments section and thereby run the risk of driving off the more intelligent and balanced commenters.
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@LWM/anon
I'd have to file no such lawsuit, because "Borat" and I would have been mixing it up pretty badly, and if he continued, he'd be out my door.
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mona
point taken...again i don't disagree. but who decides, in the bigger picture? i just feel, at the risk of becomming annoying, that these folks may have something to say ( actually i think they do) and maybe there is a better policy than to just cut them off.
just askin'
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What's worse than being a lefty blog contributor?
My last remaining hope is that the thousands of folks that read but choose not to comment at blogs like UT are doing so because they have bigger fish to fry than being "a regular" at a "lefty" blog.,
Thanks for the concern. It's so good that you'll read and follow 200 posts on a somewhat unwieldy blog to dismiss it's regulars and pass judgement about waste of time.
I guess you're just taking off time from saving the world. Keep up the good work, things are going great.
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Shorter Anonymous - "Shut up!"
My last remaining hope is that the thousands of folks that read but choose not to comment at blogs like UT are doing so because they have bigger fish to fry than being "a regular" at a "lefty" blog.
--Anonymous
I think he's trying to "censor" us!
Shut up! Go outside and march around with a big sign and some silly paper mache heads. That will change everything, just like 9/11 did. Actionism Uber Alles!
Censorship is defined as the removal and/or withholding of information from the public by a controlling group or body.
Typically censorship is done by governments, religious and secular groups, corporations, or the mass media, although other forms of censorship exist. The withholding of official secrets, commercial secrets, intellectual property, and privileged lawyer-client communication is not usually described as censorship when it remains within reasonable bounds. Because of this, the term "censorship" often carries with it a sense of untoward, inappropriate or repressive secrecy.
Censorship is closely related to the concepts of freedom of speech and freedom of expression. When overused, it is often associated with human rights abuse, dictatorship, and repression.
The term "censorship" is often used as a pejorative term to signify a belief that a group controlling certain information is using this control improperly or for its own benefit, or preventing others from accessing information that should be made readily accessible (often so that conclusions drawn can be verified).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
Glenn is just an individual, and this is his blog. The corporate entity Salon had nothing to with this.
Like propaganda, it is a complex concept and simple dictionary definitions do not apprehend it. GO hasn't been banned nor has he even been "censored" really. He gets 1000 words per post to rant and rave completely uncensored. He has been moderated, limited.
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@Anonycoward
My last remaining hope is that the thousands of folks that read but choose not to comment at blogs like UT are doing so because they have bigger fish to fry than being "a regular" at a "lefty" blog.
--Anonymous
Another cowardly, 'small fry' anoymous guttless fish with big empty hopes and words berating those who speak with a name attached to their words.
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Oy!
Not another sanctimonymous. Is there a hidden factory beyond the Urals? In the New Economic Zone, perhaps? Has Karl Rove perfected cloning?
Never you mind, anonymous, we can blog with one hand and bring salvation to the unshriven with the other, and never for a moment lose our equanimity. Would we could say the same for you.
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@patg
but who decides, in the bigger picture?
There is no "bigger picture." At this site, Glenn decides. And he is very, very light-handed about it compared with many blogs.
One site I really liked -- the now virtually defunct Left2Right -- was destroyed by sugraman and Garry Owen equivalents. The academics who ran the blog (who were and are vehement civil libertarians) just did not have time to moderate, and so eventually closed comments, which was the death knell for the blog. It was a great run while it lasted, but eventually the nuts (and ideology was not the primary issue) made it impossible to continue the productive discussion we had had there for almost a year.
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Why don't you actionists just shut up?
Go get some silly paper mache heads and get into the action!
The Bonus Army was an assemblage of about 17,000 World War I veterans, accompanied by their families and other affiliated groups, who demonstrated in Washington, DC, during the spring and summer of 1932... The Bonus Army massed at the United States Capitol on June 17 as the U.S. Senate voted on the Patman Bonus Bill, which would have moved forward the date when World War I veterans received a cash bonus. Most of the Bonus Army camped in a Hooverville on the Anacostia Flats, then a swampy, muddy area across the Anacostia River from the federal core of Washington. The protesters had hoped that they could convince Congress to make payments that would be granted to veterans immediately, which would have provided relief for the marchers who were unemployed due to the Depression. The bill had passed the House of Representatives on June 15 but was blocked in the Senate.
After the defeat of the bill, Congress appropriated funds to pay for the marchers' return home, which some marchers accepted. Some of the veterans stayed and continued to protest. On July 28, Washington police attacked the veterans. After many people got injured and two veterans died, the protesters assaulted the police with blunt weapons, wounding several of them. After the police retreated, the District of Columbia commissioners informed President Herbert Hoover that they could no longer maintain the peace, whereupon Hoover ordered federal troops to remove the marchers from the general area.
Intervention of the military
The marchers were cleared and their camps were destroyed by the 12th Infantry Regiment from Fort Howard, Maryland, and the 3rd Cavalry Regiment under the command of MAJ. George S. Patton from Fort Myer, Virginia, under the overall command of General Douglas MacArthur. The Posse Comitatus Act, prohibiting the U.S. military from being used for general law enforcement purposes in most instances, did not apply to Washington, DC, because it is one of several pieces of federal property under the direct governance of the U.S. Congress (United States Constitution, Article I. Section 8). Dwight D. Eisenhower, as a member of MacArthur's staff, had strong reservations about the operation. Troops carrying rifles with unsheathed bayonets and tear gas were sent into the Bonus Army's camps. President Hoover did not want the army to march across the Anacostia River into the protesters' largest encampment, but Douglas MacArthur felt this was a communist attempt to overthrow the government and thus exceeded his authority. Hundreds of veterans were injured, several were killed, including William Hushka and Eric Carlson; a wife of a veteran miscarried, and other casualties were inflicted. The visual image of U.S. armed soldiers confronting poor veterans of the recent Great War set the stage for Veteran relief and eventually the Veterans Administration.
IOWs, Creeping Socialism!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army