Was threatened with banning by "Land of Enchantment" for disagreeing with "Hunter". Both made good on the threat and I received the following lock out warnings.
You've Been Warned...
2010-08-03 00:37:50
You're seriously claiming no Muslims lived in NY before 9/11?
I understand the above warning (posting is no longer allowed until this is acknowledged).
You've Been Warned...
2010-08-03 00:38:08
seriously claiming no Muslims lived in NY before 9/11?
I understand the above warning (posting is no longer allowed until this is acknowledged).
In looking at the comments, clearly the unsigned claims made by, I assume, "Hunter" who is part of DKOS management, are, no real polite way to put it, a lie.
It asks a question which DKOS management could have answered by reading the comments. If the claim had any validity, obviously it would quote the comment vs. posting it as a dishonest question.
So the only point in asking an obviously untrue rhetorical question was to censor differences of opinion and use dishonest means to do it. I'm guessing the underlying reason for dual warnings with "questions about statements we knew you didn't make so we'll make them for you" is that X number of warnings you get banned.
Here's the Mosque conversation. Easy to see the lie of DKOS management's "You're seriously claiming no Muslims lived in NY before 9/11?". No but thanks for asking, I think. A better question would be is DKOS seriously asking such an obviously dishonest question and using it to ban people? That answer is clearly yes.
Even assuming a reader did say no Muslims lived in NY before 911, an obviously silly comment, so what? Hardly seems worth banning a person. But we digress, since the statement was never made by me, we are left with the contrived rhetorically question and warnings based on DKOS management's made up "question".
I ran into this earlier when someone posted about transgender issues, I noted that in my occupation as Operating Room RN in a children's hospital we often see children who have both male and female sexual organs and that parents have to decide very quickly which sex do they want the child to be. The mention of this every day reality got censored by the out of control "politically correct" group who run that topic on DKOS. They were clearly uneducated on medical realities of the issue and could not stand to have their views challenged or have an adult discussion of the topic based on science and medicine.
Same in this case with the 911 Mosque. Fabricating comments and then censoring and banning the person over DKOS management's fabrication. To the purpose of imposing a fake "tolerance" of Islam?
Interesting to find that DKOS is such a managed political blog with opinions expressed being controlled by small groups who hold weak views, easily challenged by reality (in the case of transgender children) and facts (that the Mosque is being built next to 911 to use 911 to proselytize religion).
Good to know for future reference when we see references to DKOS, knowing that views expressed are of a Democratic fringe group with dogmatic views not based on reality or facts. Which explains the near religious intensity when Obama is challenged for the many failings to live up to campaign promises or to honestly address US problems. Interestingly the "front page" posters are free to express a much more skeptical view of Obama vs. what is allowed by ordinary members who get banned for similar views. A case of the members not being able to express views until thoroughly vetted by DKOS management? Kind of feudal, the "aristocracy" can critique by the common man is censored but it is what it is.
Since I will no doubt be shortly banned from the site for expressing liberal Democratic views, it would be helpful for other liberal Democrats if DKOS posted its political dogma on the FAQ vs. the hidden agenda bit. Here are the unspoken dogma's I've hit in just a few weeks
- GLBT - no science or medical reality can be discussed.
- Religion - Islamic religion over protected to demonstrate faux tolerance.
- Never note obesity caused by overeating and lack of exercise.
- Never reply to any DKOS management person with difference of opinion. Intolerant of dissent.
PS You will also get a lot of high school profanity and odd iconic pictures that seem to hold some significance to the left wing tea baggers here when you disagree with any of the hidden agendas or "important people". That's what I've learned so far on a liberal Democrat's political anthropology journey to a DKOS sect in the jungles of the web.