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As usual, your thread/post makes more sense than anything else reported.

Days before this tragedy I predicted what the "professional victims" would do and say and my posts were removed, the threads were removed and I was chastised by fellow freepers.
DU did a number on me and I was chastised again.

I correctly predicted (before the levy broke) almost exactly what has happened since. The City, Levy Board and State Government preferred to count their chickens, they were already spending the Federal (FREE MONEY) that they were going to get. The Welfare recipients (7 and 8 continuous Generations! thought they were going to cleanup too, which is why they didn't leave. Doing the right thing, the smart thing means that you take responsibility, these folks know that to accept responsibility means that you don't receive that means you PAY.

The media is complicit and you point it out better than I ever could, I can see it, you know how to say it.

Kudos again for an outstanding post

TT

Doing the right thing, the smart thing means that you take responsibility, these folks know that to accept responsibility means that you don't receive that means you PAY.

Hard to argue with that one.

Days before this tragedy I predicted what the "professional victims" would do and say and my posts were removed, the threads were removed and I was chastised by fellow freepers.

That is a painful reality in some cases. But we have to remember that although the Internet is a free speech zone, it is truly so only for those who have their own web site. And if you do have a web site, you have nothing if you cannot attract a readership - so your site has to be moderated (edited) for the reader the site hopes to attract. And that means fallible human judgement. Sigh . . .

DU did a number on me and I was chastised again.

I had an experience of attracting the attention of DU:
Just an FYI...DU is "archiving" this thread as proof that Freepers want to do away with the First Amendment. We may want to put some thoughts to "enlighten" those that don't read properly.DU thread here...shower after leaving
37 posted on 09/16/2001 2:08:55 PM EDT by Dakotabound
I got no flack from FR's mods, tho. And I just threw the text of the First Amendment back at DU - tho only within FR, I don't lurk DU and don't try to post there. But they should have been embarassed to claim that a discussion of the meaning of the First Amendment is anti-First Amendment. Especially a discussion which actually urges stricter enforcement of that restriction on the government.
But of course when a Democrat talks about "the First Amendment" in particular or the "Constitution" in general, the terms belong in scare quotes. Because when they say "Constitution" they don't mean the agreement ratified in 1788 but their idea of virtue. If they want a right to abortion on demand, they say it is "in the Constitution" - simply because it is what they believe in, with no sincere reference to the document itself.
It is a sociopathic argument, which rejects the idea that any disagreement with their POV is legitimate.