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You’re kidding, right?

You know this how?

Have you, say, hit the search poster button by any chance?

*I* watched the saga unfold just as much as you or anyone else did, and I assure you the mass purge had little if any connection to the reasons you stated.

First you stated that people were banned because they “disregard[ed] warnings, advocate[d] abortion and infanticide, unfairly bash[ed] President Reagan, and [swore] at Jim.”

I asked you for your evidence for your claim, especially your claim that freepers had “advocated” abortion and infanticide.

Instead of answering my question, and supporting your conclusion, you have now offered a different story: people were banned because (gasp) they “purposely set up a new website and then came over here DEMANDING to be banned or opused out or asked Jim to ban them.”

Huh?

Which is it?

And are you claiming not one freeper was purged who didn’t ask to be?

I doubt those involved had any private conversations with you, so I’m pretty sure you haven’t heard their side of the story.

As for the JR thing, thank you, I am well aware of the etiquette requirements. (I am wondering why you are so enamored with adding insult to your points. It really doesn’t make your points seem brighter.) And I can see how you misunderstood my question, so let me rephrase it.

I was not actually asking you why you pinged JR. My question was this: why did you feel compelled to mention him in the first place? How was that necessary to your points?

I ask because it certainly seems wierd that some people trot out a JR mention whenever they really want to try to pour on the (in their mind) gravitas. Please. It’s way too much like wailing “Daddy, make him stop!!” Or was it a try for brownie points by highlighting how good you done by defending Jim Rob-—who, by the way, takes care of himself rather well, I’d say.

I seriously doubt JR is sitting around bawling because someone “swore” at him. But anyway.

My point is this: in all that went on, you found it representative of the animus for the purge to claim that someone “swore at” Jim? In your mind, that (if it happened-—I would also ask that you kindly provide substantiation for that claim) was one of the major factors in the mass purge?

Wow. I suggest you search JR’s posts and see who told whom to engage in a vulgar act in a way that some might find awfully close to “swearing.”

Be that as it may, I would like you to answer my question. Please name one freeper who “advocated” abortion and infanticide. Please tell me if you believe that every freeper who was banned asked to be banned or opused out.

Thank you.