[SOC] Fw: 1% transaction tax proposed

[Michael Coslo]

On 9/20/2010 8:15 PM, Jim F. wrote:

> I vote for freedom.
>
> A (Second class) conservative frowns, then hits the delete key.
>
> A (First class) liberal gets deeply offended and demands that everyone else change.

If that's what happened, then okay - but it isn't.

I don't mind too awful much, but on all the lists I belong to, including 
ones I moderate, posts like this are popping up. One amazing one was the 
fellow that had how foreigners were spreading bubonic plague. Democraps 
were in cahoots with them.

And on and on and on. Dare there be no comment? I end up with a range 
war on my hands because someone declares some outrageous untruth, then 
we get all the predictable responses:

Someone comments on the post

The person that posts the original gets booboo feelings, because it's 
his freedom of speech being trampled on then....

We start getting people calling each other commies, socialists, and 
other insults.

So freakin' sweet! This is the brotherhood of Hams, eh?

So yeah, the moderation bit gets turned on.

How about a reality check here?

Democrats are people too, and to make them out to be someone sort of new 
age communists is way out of line.

And some Democrat kook that tries to get a lame tax bill on transactions 
6 years ago is no more representative of the whole party than Homosexual 
Republican lawmakers with wide stances or Republican representatives who 
have a thing for teenage intern males.

It is almost impossible for such posts to be made without someone 
commenting on them

Remember that freedom of speech applies to everyone. People are allowed 
to believe anything they want. There's no law that says we have to be right.

	- Mike -