Because some of those then banned to date had ended up at LF and managed to remain somewhat adult (some more than others) about the subject of FR, I sought information there.
Such a thread would have never lasted here and would have been of little use since folks would have had to break the rules by assuming another identity to post in and I would have only exacerbate the ongoing wound on the ZION_IST threads. I doubt it would have stayed up for even a day. Quite in contrast to the way the LF post netted me a few responses, a few emails and died on the vine.
Either way, it ended up a moot point when internal discussions were closed.
I'm just as up front on other sites as I am here. One telltale sign is the way I -- like Zviadist -- stick to the same handle I chose on FR 4 years ago no matter where I go. Because you've read the thread, you know good and well that I was not about to tolerate any FR bashing or innuendo -- that was not the point of the thread -- I simply wanted to get an idea of how many and for what reason folks were banned on the Middle East threads.
Why? Because I've NEVER seen such one-sided carnage in all the time I've been here.
As a Catholic who prefers that the Catholic-bashing stand in all its ugliness for everyone to see, as a Catholic who is confident I've the patience and logic and objective truth necessary to handle my own business ... I'm not into either playing the victim card or engaging in the predatory behavior that is psychoanalyzing or trailing my opponents in an effort to build a sustainable claim of Insanity or Hate Crime with which to get them silenced.
I don't waste a lot of my time anymore trying to fight the good fight on these threads. It's not so much a fear of being banned as it is a real distaste for watching you all in action. Folks so "faithful" they have every confidence in their Divine claim to Israel (which claim is to be respected irregardless of another's belief in God or the Jews own obedience to His law) yet so hateful they can engage in the practice of Dehumanization ... the very tactic by which countless Jews have been persecuted, tortured and killed as somehow Subhuman for centuries.
Your actions and words are inconsistent. Anyone who pays any attention at all knows you are not defending (by reasoned argument or Witness) the righteousness of Israel so much as you are bulldozing a conduit for continued one-sided coverage of a conflict of flashpoint proportions sufficient to set fire to the world.
Are you now? So, on one site you're telling folks that you're trying to keep people from being banned (and perhaps get the bannes back in again - coincidentally, mostly bizarrely antisemitic bannees). Then you come here and approach some of the Jewish posters about the same kind of information and help you were soliciting on the other board, now ostensibly "to keep banned posters from slipping in again".
This is rather stupid behaviour, Askel.