Carmel, I'm not sure who you're addressing here. I think it's the original Anon poster who everyone's all mad at. And, just to be a bitch, I'm going to stand up for Anon. I disagree with some of the things he/she has said. But I wouldn't go so far as to say they can't or shouldn't say them here or to define what this forum is good for for any user but myself.
For example, Anon says it's all about propaganda. Well, that's a harsh term sometimes used to describe political speech with which one disagrees. Although I don't mind that people are using this forum for socializing and even healing, the primary reason why I set it up was actually to get the word out "straight from the horses' mouths", so to speak, for the specific purpose of blowing great, gaping holes in the political currency of those people who are
still making political hay on what they did to us.
There's just one very important difference between this forum and the way Straight, Inc. (&Co) go about promoting ideas. We don't have any "No talking ____" rules. In fact, rampant talking out in group is the whole point. And I think we'll win out in the end, too, because we don't have the considerable overhead of controling what anyone has to say in order to support a forgone conclusion.
The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are constitutional rights secure.
-- Albert Einstein
