Banned by Democratic Underground

If you cannot refute what someone has to say, call them a racist or delete their comments!

Last week, someone on Democratic Underground posted a link to my pictures and blog entry about seeing the oil slick over the Keys.  Normally, I do not jump into the comment sections of community forums.  After 18 years online (and a heavy usenet poster throughout the 1990s) I have developed a thick skin and I don't really care what people have to say about what I write or photograph.  To each their own. However, one poster at DU called me a racist and I had to step in and say something.

Now all of my comments have been deleted by the moderator, even though there was nothing racist, vulgar, libelous or defamatory in the content.  The Democratic Underground is hardly a democratic bastion of the free exchange of ideas and very much opposed to any real truth that might reveal the agenda behind the party.

My "sin" was that in the linked post, I mentioned the obvious - that Obama was selected by the PTB that rule the world because he was Black and most likely blackmailable.  He has no qualifications that would make him a worthy President and his tenure as a Constitutional Law professor would be laughable if it were not so tragic.  I stated that any time someone criticized Obama, the race card would be played.  (And during the election, many people stated they voted for him because he was black, which I find to be racist, but that's another thread.)  I mentioned that this was an important social engineering tool and that the citizenry would be less likely to rebel against martial law-type scenarios if a black Democrat made the decision as opposed to a Republican like John McCain.  Millions of Americas protested the Bush presidency, but Obama is an even worse President and the people who elected him have remained silent.  To criticize Obama, one is called racist.  Two of the posters proved my point.

My responses were fair, accurate, and also mentioned Bill Clinton's connection to Mena, Arkansas, and how a governor from a poor state with nothing going on was forced upon us.  Bill Clinton is intelligent, articulate, and affable, yes, but despite his traits, he was the only candidate who could be trusted to not open a treason investigation against the former Director of Intelligence and former President George H.W. Bush for his lies that he was not "in the loop".  (These comments got me banned from the Howard Dean 2004 forum, too.) 

One person asked why I was so angry about the subject of the oil disaster.  I was accused of being an alarmist because I am in Florida helping my family leave the state because of the health effects associated with the disaster.  No sense in waiting around for those fine folks who managed the Katrina evacuation to manage the mass evacuation of the Gulf states when the oil hits the fan, I said.  I mentioned there wasn't a plan, that the government could not deal with this disaster and that likely they would use it to put forth their own agenda a la Rahm Emanual.  I stated that that government and corporate media are trying to hide the true extent of the disaster and that readers should go to Florida Oil Spill and the Gulf Oil Disaster index at What Really Happened to see the true extent of the problem.  I also mentioned another sensitive subject: that if this disaster had happened in California or New York, the public response would have been different.  That it is only redneck bubbas and poor Southern folks affected (in the short term) , it is not as important.  (And almost everyone I have spoken to in the South agrees with this.)  It seems that most of the "intellectuals" care more about the dead dolphins than they do about dead humans.  The truth hit a nerve.  I listed several points to prove my assertions.  In the end, the accuracy of my comments was too much for "intellectuals" to deal with, so only my comments were deleted.  This is the third time in the past seven years that the DU has purged my comments.  It says a lot about them - and their founders.

My final comment was that the powers that be want to keep us fighting against each other with stupid hot button issues so we are too busy to pay attention to the master manipulators.  By deleting my comments yetagain, they proved my point.

The Democratic Underground is the most undemocratic forum in which I have ever encountered.  I have been flamed by a lot of people (dog forbid you tell somebody the freaking obvious that 9-11 was an inside job), but I find it to be the ultimate hypocrisy for people who pretend to care about the freedom of ideas to ban the exchange of thoughts and ideas.  DU is just another private clique congratulating each other for ideological homogeneity.

I wish that I had cached my comments.  It doesn't really matter, though. The DU has been exposed yet again as a propaganda tool and the regular posters prefer to use it as a social networking tool as opposed to the free flow of information and ideas.  The regular posters have little clue as to how the world works or they would not waste their time posting to such an obviously controlled forum.  It's like the Daily Koz or Wonkette - totally irrelevant crap designed to make posters feel they are somehow intellectually superior to the rest of the population.  What a social engineering tool!

Looks like I am not the only one banned by the DU.  Several people have written to me of their experiences.  At least I am good company.  I cannot imagine having insightful conversations with people who want Michelle Obama to run in 2016.  Seriously.  There's even a thread about it.  Every poster agrees that would be a wonderful ting.  I'm taking a wild leap here and guessing that DU's active membership is on the decline.

Silly me.  When I created the account name for the DU site, I clicked the terms of agreement without  reading the fine print.  No wonder all my comments were removed.  Here are some of DU's posting rules.  

 { } Inappropriate attacks against Democrats
- Insults against prominent Democrats, such as “F— Obama.”
- Name-calling against prominent Democrats. Calling Barack Obama “Barry” or some other name.
- Repeating Republican partisan attacks against Democrats.
- Broadly suggesting that there is no difference between Barack Obama and George W. Bush, or that there is no difference between Democrats and Republicans. (Arguing that specific policies are the same would be permitted.)
- Suggesting that President Obama has perpetrated a “con job” or “fraud,” or similarly over-the-top assertions of bad faith.
- Advocating voting against Democrats, or in favor of third-party or GOP candidates.
- Broad-brush smears against Democrats generally. Broad expressions of contempt toward Democrats generally. 

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2010/06/21/democratic-underground-administrator-posts-absurdly-detailed-rules-mic#ixzz0rXsBnHyf

Comments

[Me]

Oh, and even moderate liberals are NOT welcome at DU. Certainly not centrists. These are the elite of the elite of extreme stupidity.

All that entertainment concentrated in one spot!! :D

[Me]

I've been kicked out of DU 8 times over a period of a couple of years. When you create the new account, make sure you do it from a different IP address.

It's soooooo funny to go in there and poke a stick at their warped view of the world. It's like tossing a rock at a bee hive except all the bees are blind and wouldn't know what to do with their stingers if they had one.

It's a sport. Kinda fun on a slow news day. It beats watching tv... lol

[bkozumplik]

well, their site is a bit dead these days. I think they purged a lot of people. Look at the numbers of comments. virtually nil, and its always like that.

They want to create an echo chamber, their wish is granted.

They should make the name BarackObama underground, as they put Barack over the party.

eff em. Eff Hunter, and Eff their rules.

[Sweejak]

Being kicked off of DU is a badge of honor.

[Yoo Betcha]

This is the typical 'innoculated' from ridicule by race card the alleged DEMOcrap party uses to protect Barry Soetoro, from any kind of critical assessment of his abysmally messed up PUPPETANCY he's been installed in very much in the same illegitimate way that the last brain dead moron puppet (bush 2) was.

But to just decry this as an unjust attack by slime, doesn't go far enough. In the new world ODOR of today, both parties are now MERGED at the hip and they are no different from one another than any other two sets of mass murdering gang punks on any international stage. They commit 60 billion every two months to Barry Soetoro's war-mongering and mass murdering, which to you lay people without your calculator's out, that's a billion a day for killing people all over the planet. They support DRONE MURDERING, and indiscriminate use of air strikes to assassinate people everywhere, and I truly don't see any difference between DEM and GOP asshole any longer.

Barry Soetoro being 'innoculated' by his race is pretty much why he was selected for the job. Any criticism of the turd gets thrown up at you as RACISM and of course, it's like any criticism of ISRAEL who is Barry's boss, is ANTI SEMITISM. People with higher reasoning skills, albeit fairly rare in Amerika, actually are seeing this, they don't need it pointed out too very often as to 'why' RACE cards and ANTI SEMITE cards flourish and are almost laughably predictably thrown within seconds of any allegation of wrongdoing against Barry or his zionist jewish handlers in Tel Aviv.

[helen]

(mena, arkansas, not mean)....thanks for getting the truth out!!