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Originally Posted by David Merrill
Indeed mrg!
However I believe in free speech whatever and I think Admin is there too.
Therefore the Ignore List is quite the cat's pajamas.
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I believe in free speech.
Free sovereign people are free to pursue happiness as they choose, taking care not to cause injury in that pursuit.
The first amendment, and any amendment, or the constitution itself, is not the declaration or granting, or statement of a right, or rights, but a statement of prohibitive limitation on the creation by the creator.
The assistance of a society's affairs guided by a very limited FORM of governance is a process, not a forced imposition.
The ignore list works ok, and the experiment of boycotting trolls is worthwhile, and I do not wish to alienate those I respect who actually want the trolls here.
I do not understand why though, when one has made another go silent and unresponsive to an argument the same redundant argument is allowed to appear elsewhere ad infinitum, without responding substantially, and responsively to a prior inescapable interogatory procedure that the person opened themself up to and then refused to perform as prescribed by the challenger.
I also do not understand how and why infiltration, sabotage, and piracy is so difficult for some to see, and at least monitor.
I have seen another board, that was initially very fine, and provided a valuable professional forum, compromised in quality, and effectively undermined by very determined and persistent trolls, plants, pavement artists, agents provacateurs, and the like, to the point I could not participate.
I have benefitted, I suppose, in engaging miscreants, but to have to feel compelled, out of a perhaps misguided sense of duty, to re-engage endlessly in what amounts to nothing more than vulgar and deceitful red herring baiting by clothing sabotage with a veil of "legitimate" "argument," wherein the "subject matter" of the argument, whether cosmetically "valid" or not, is not the true point or purpose of the engagement, becomes tiring, and at some point rather embarrasing to realize one has been once more sucked into a tail-chasing exercise.
The first thing that one of the trolls here did was to use his "professional" union's tools to run information through more than one national data base, in what I feel was, in part, an effort to ID the poster.
I have reason to believe the same individual found my name where I was baited into posting it by another troll, and running it and taunting me with personal information
thus discovered.
Free speech is free speech, and if it is employed to infiltrate, delude, sabotage, and wage war, and is successful, so be it.
