This is SO weird! I am a 54 year old Vietnam Era Vet, career federal employee now retired after 29 years, father, grandfather, brother, and all around good guy. At least most of the time. Sometimes, my inner anarchist and CTer comes out and I say things I obviously shouldn’t. Consider today for instance.
It was a typical morning. I woke, got some coffee and turned on the internet. Read a little news, then starting perusing blogs. I saw a diary on DK titled “FBI Whistleblower says Neocons Negotiated Iraq Invasion with Foreign Agents in Summer 2001”.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/…
In a particularly egregioius momemt of insensibility, I responded to the following comment:
“Well, if you go by Some of the more interesting detailing and wording in the Project For the New American Century, as well as the infamous Rumsfeld napkin writing to the CIA….this opens up one hell of a Pandora’s Box…and I’ll just leave it at that”
with this:
“Ahem. Quite interesting that 9/11 happened not long after this.”
I didn’t think anything about it and went about my day. Later in the afternoon I went back on DK and noticed a reply to my comment from Meteor Blades.
“Edmond’s comments do not include saying that 9/11 was an inside job. And you shouldn’t be saying that on this site either if you want to keep posting here.”
Well, that just irked me. Good grief MB, grow a spine for criss sakes. So I responded back in my best diplomatic manner:
“Ban me for that statement? Go ahead, I’d be proud”.
No more than ten minutes later I got the notice:
2009-09-23 19:20:03
If you write commentary expressing a MIHOP or LIHOP theory, you will be banned. It’s a longstanding rule. Four months ago, people weren’t even warned about it. Now we give a single warning. This is yours.
I understand the above warning (posting is no longer allowed until this is acknowledged).
First off, unless I acknowledge, it does appear I’m banned, which really means I haven’t been given a single warning. I have no history of CTism on DK. I’ve thought I’ve been a fairly good contributor all things considered. Sometimes I’ll play along the edges like with the statement I made today. But I don’t see where that statement I made today is at all detrimental to that blog.
So I have a decision, to acknowledge or not to acknowledge, that is the question. My inner being is telling me to not acknowledge that sort of bullshit. It just seems like giving in to the man. I don’t give in to the man. Interesting isn’t it, DK has become the “man”. At least to me.
UPDATE: Here’s what I’ve concluded. To acknowledge this warning or reprimand for my behavior would be the same as acknowledging I went over the line of the rules established. I didn’t. Not only that, but the same thing happening everywhere is happening on DK, the continued oppression of anything. So I can’t accept it. Therefore, I will not “acknowledge” and I will have been banned from Daily Kos for saying this (without previous history of “bad behavior”):
“Ahem, quite interesting that 9/11 happened not long after this.”
I can’t explain it any better.