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From: M.A. Camp <macampesq@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Oct 15, 2005
Subject: To Lit-Ideas
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Since Andreas has to approve this post I don't know how long it
will take to get to you. Allow me to explain my side of this
controversy:
Though I am a news junkie and love to share articles with others
I'm more comfortable watching conversations than engaging in them.
I have truly enjoyed watching the threads here and mulling them
over. I realise this is unorthodox for a discussion list and would
not work if everyone attempted it but see no problem in one person
engaging in it. Someone pointed out that a Dennis Dutton used to
do this very same thing but I imagine everyone knew that person and
didn't need to speculate he was a subversive with nefarious
motives. I've done this on other political lists and have never
had this problem.
I am fully convinced that this is politically motivated censorship
based on my supposed beliefs, which is daft. There are members of
this list that can't stand not knowing where I'm coming from
instead of engaging in the topics presented. It is the others that
have found worth in my articles that make it worthwhile. I'm
troubled by the people that think I'm a stupid right-wing racist
troll for what I've posted. I am none of those things and took
care to post items I believed to be of interest to this group and
its members.
My thanks to Andy, Eric, Brian, Mike and Paul for standing against
this moderation and making good points.
As long as Andreas is going to decide what is appropriate
concerning posts -- and deem mine inappropriate -- I will be
leaving. That is an untenable position. (How, for instance, is my
Daniel Pipes post racist and stupid and Eric's post of the same
author's work is not? Because he is "one of us"? Bollocks.)
--
Cheers,
M.A. Camp, Esq.
