[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

There's some new posters who've taken upon themselves to harass the non-head-nodders.

Sincere question: If someone disagrees with you, do you consider it harassment? It seems to me that when some of the third party people who dislike President Bush (and declare their dislike for him in terms that are offensive to a lot of us) are met with opposition, they characterize that opposition in terms like "swarm", "pack", etc.

Maybe it's just sincere disagreement, by a number of different people. If you are in the minority in terms of opinion, I imagine it would feel like more than that. In some cases, it may be - I don't know - but most of the time, I think people just plain disagree, and they're just saying so.

[nopardons]

Many long years ago, the Libertarians,big and little l,and others who are fringers, would not only run a ping list,to call in the troops against the one or two people with opposing views on a thread, but started the "wolf pack " attacks here. When they find themselves outnumbered on a thread, they accuse others of using the tactics they originated here, whether it is factual or not and most of the time,no such thing took place.

When they hurl insults,personal attacks,and/or only slightly veiled impugnations,they called it "debate". Should someone respond in kind, or not even in kind, but in refutation to the positions they hold, they hit the abuse button, write letters to Jim and the Mods, and call it harassment, personal attacks,and worse.

What galls them, is that they are a very tiny minority here, as well as in the REAL world.

[Cboldt]

Sincere question: If someone disagrees with you, do you consider it harassment?

Quick answer, "It depends." Some posts express disagreement in thought-provoking terms; other posts express disagreement in emotion-provoking terms, and most posts are a mixture of the two.

FR has room to improve.

[palmer]

Sincere question: If someone disagrees with you, do you consider it harassment?

I agree that it is easy to take things personally when there are strong views on both sides. In my particular case I expressed no views at all about Bush, I merely pointed out that Kerry will scoop up the sympathy vote with the active collusion of the media. I was attacked as a Kerry supporter by a newbie who can only be fairly described as a bushbot. He didn't recognize that my tagline was satire and told me I should change it. It was insulting but I didn't insult him back in any way.

Let me ask you a sincere question: do you Bush supporters ever take it upon yourselves to police your own? When newbie Bush supporters have nothing to contribute except talking points and insults do you call them on it?