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Lira;
Your points are well taken, very well. I too initially cringed when I saw that he'd been banned...but only for a split-second.
Then I thought about just who he was and what he was peddling, and frankly, he's a one-trick pony pushing a HUGE insult on the victims and survivors of the 9-11 tragedy (of which everyone in this country is a "survivor" in some way or another...it has affected us all).
Does anyone with half a brain here really think he was contributing anything worthy of debate in a Political Forum? His garbage was SO FAR off the scale in terms of being even remotely legitimate, that it wouldn't be any different if a spammer had come in here to try and sell us square tires, or blue bananas. It was pointless and baseless crap. In the end, I think HE was the ULTIMATE spammer. 
Now, freedom of speech is one thing (of which, we really can't claim that right on a private message board...they can ban whomever they see fit, there are no real laws here except the ones laid down by the Mod and the board's owner), but let me ask you this; What does society do with it's clinically insane people? Does it turn a blind eye and let them wander about our lives, ruining and disrupting them, all in the name of "freedom"?
Maybe I and people like Tiesto14 take this more personally because it happened in our country, but either way, I found Sol G.'s diatribe to be tiresome and frankly, ruiness to the board's future. Like I said before, this board was going from being a place where you could learn something and have some worth-while debates, to being a place where only Internet whack-jobs from around the world could congregate to feed on each other's paranoia and fairy-tales. Trancer X and his ilk were attracting other whack-jobs in here with his insulting and lunatic posts about 9-11 conspiracies. I've seen crazy people infect other boards (though not exactly in this way, but not too far off either), and while you can theorize all day long about where to draw the line, like it or not, it has to be drawn somewhere for the good of the others.
Last edited by donnybrasco on May-17-2006 at 20:30
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