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To: Cachelot
Off topic but so what.

You may be right about the term neo-con being hijacked. If so, I am unaware of it. I am at a loss to understand why anyone who is a neo-nazi or one of the subsets of that group would want to disguise their true indentity when conversing with friends in the world of 1's and 0's.

As to your allegation that Liberty Forum denys the "neo-nazi label" that is accurate as well. However, LF is not a neo-nazi forum. It's managers simply do not ban people because of their views no matter how repugnant they might be.

Failure to censor does not equal agreement. The neo-nazis used to march in Skokie Illinois, a heavily Jewish suburb of Chicago. Care to draw a conclusion from that fact?

Regards

J.R.
136 posted on 03/15/2003 12:30:39 PM PST by NMC EXP
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To: NMC EXP
It's managers simply do not ban people because of their views no matter how repugnant they might be.

There's a bit more to it than that.

1. In the early days, when the forum was invitation only, most of the invitions went to clearly nazist posters. This is very easily verified. It is also very easily verified that the folks doing most of the inviting are a couple of islamists in the US, at least one of which has a criminal record, and a couple of Canadians - one of which is an American immigrant with close ties to Ernst Zundel.

2. Old stats I had said that roughly half of the total number of posts on the board were from this handful of people. Newer stats is even more skewed toward the neo-nazi contingent - in fact the overwhelming number of people registered there have never posted a single post, and probably ran as far and fast as they could when they saw what the place was.

3. The neo-nazis prevalent on LF are people who even manage to get themselves booted from places like Stormfront. The Stormfront owner may be a scumbag, but at least he's bright enough to realize the dangers and responsibilities of hosting people calling for the killing of the US president, for example. Not so with "John Deere" :)).

Care to draw a conclusion from that fact?

Yes. That the inhabitants of Skokie have altogether too few shotguns and too few loads of rock-salt.

139 posted on 03/15/2003 12:48:28 PM PST by Cachelot (~ In waters near you ~)
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