17yr old black kid shot and killed for walking in white suburbia?

[fastingforlife]

You make you're own bed. You probably should have stayed away from here after that.

Blackmail is an act of extreme cowardice, perpetrated by the weakest among us. Happy to see that you are a chief defender of the practice.

[GrimFusion]

As one was threatened, that my interest in this site, would be exposed to my wife, children and employer, simply because someone did not like my opinion, I cannot agree that the policing has improved. I was amazed at the spinelessness of my fellow members from both the right and left who saw me being blackmailed, and stood by as mutes. Their courage was breathtaking.

Have you read the forum rules? If Sean would rather consider banning you after a conversation where you feel wronged by blackmail, it's because you screwed up and aired an off-kilter opinion you probably should have kept private. If nothing else, you were still the catalyst for a slew of negative reactions that wouldn't have otherwise taken place if you knew how to properly conduct yourself and be discreet.

Cowardice has nothing to do with it. You can't expect people to step-to-the-plate and defend you when you've effectively ostracized a large portion of forum members and in-turn, pissed off the majority of regular posters. Comradery doesn't work like that. Blackmail isn't a desperate and cowardly action when it's the only leverage that can be manipulated to shut a person up, especially if that's the only intention.

[fastingforlife]

Have you read the forum rules? If Sean would rather consider banning you after a conversation where you feel wronged by blackmail, it's because you screwed up and aired an off-kilter opinion you probably should have kept private. If nothing else, you were still the catalyst for a slew of negative reactions that wouldn't have otherwise taken place if you knew how to properly conduct yourself and be discreet.

Cowardice has nothing to do with it. You can't expect people to step-to-the-plate and defend you when you've effectively ostracized a large portion of forum members and in-turn, pissed off the majority of regular posters. Comradery doesn't work like that. Blackmail isn't a desperate and cowardly action when it's the only leverage that can be manipulated to shut a person up, especially if that's the only intention.

wrong on all points, please face towards the back of the classroom.

[fastingforlife]

Have you read the forum rules? If Sean would rather consider banning you after a conversation where you feel wronged by blackmail, it's because you screwed up and aired an off-kilter opinion you probably should have kept private. If nothing else, you were still the catalyst for a slew of negative reactions that wouldn't have otherwise taken place if you knew how to properly conduct yourself and be discreet.

Cowardice has nothing to do with it. You can't expect people to step-to-the-plate and defend you when you've effectively ostracized a large portion of forum members and in-turn, pissed off the majority of regular posters. Comradery doesn't work like that. Blackmail isn't a desperate and cowardly action when it's the only leverage that can be manipulated to shut a person up, especially if that's the only intention.

you attempted to validate blackmail. Now have a go at child molestation.

[runningdownthatdream]

wrong on all points, please face towards the back of the classroom.

with all due respect (yep I'm being sarcastic).......it's really you that should be stepping to the back hombre. Your inane ramblings about 'white' and 'hispanic' and Puerto Ricans who assault people for calling them white indicate you might be somewhat intellectually challenged.....or at very least socially challenged.

[Prospero]

I would like to add a remark or two here.

I missed the threat from Sean to expose Fastingforlife's name and details. Though that is surely a uick way to get someone to toe the line, at the risk of being out of line with the owner and his way of running this place (which i generally find to my liking) i do think that this isn't the ideal path to pursue. The answer and solution is far simpler - a temporary or permanent ban. I think that if someone on here is being consistently offensive in a way that breaks the rules - with racist, sexist etc abuse, or is making threatening remarks and the sort of behaviour that has too often taken place in here in the past,then the simple course should be a ban. That is MY opinion.

I fervently believe in freedom of speech - even for complete idiots - within key constraints. And so, though i usually find FastingForLife's views ridiculous and almost always at odds with my own and call him out on them often, I do not think he should be censored or banned for having disagreeable or stupid views. I hate your views but will defend to the death your right to express them. That's the famous principle isn't it. But he and anyone else here should be told NOT to post remarks which are prejudiced or tend to fuel prejudice or constitute hate speech. So reasonable argument about law and order etc is fine. Ponting the figure at one ethnic, religious, political, social, sexual group and dealing in crude objectifying stereotypes is not.

By and large though I still think this place has benefited from tighter rules - such as the banning of HardJanira a couple of days ago. And of course in the end the owner of the site has the right to ban us for anything he likes. He owns it. If it were a newspaper and i wanted to offer an article at odds with that publications philosophy (of right or left) I would probably expect not to get published.

[trish]

Of course blackmail wouldn't be the dire threat you apparently deem it to be if you weren't ashamed of your behavior. I'm just curious, what is it that would so shame you in front of your family: your wanking in front of the computer, your preference for chicks with dicks or the revelation of yor deeply ingrained racism? Imagine having to admit to your wife that you habituated a porn forum and then explain to her why you were kicked out! lol

Be assured I agree with Prospero on this one and find the use of blackmail something that ought to be avoided.

[runningdownthatdream]

Of course blackmail wouldn't be the dire threat you apparently deem it to be if you weren't ashamed of your behavior. I'm just curious, what is it that would so shame you in front of your family: your wanking in front of the computer, your preference for chicks with dicks or the revelation of yor deeply ingrained racism? Imagine having to admit to your wife that you habituated a porn forum and then explain to her why you were kicked out! lol

Be assured I agree with Prospero on this one and find the use of blackmail something that ought to be avoided.

.......exactly so......just as the degenerates who roamed the night terrorizing defenseless people wore hoods to hide their shame since most 'white' people were ashamed of them.

[fastingforlife]

with all due respect (yep I'm being sarcastic).......it's really you that should be stepping to the back hombre. Your inane ramblings about 'white' and 'hispanic' and Puerto Ricans who assault people for calling them white indicate you might be somewhat intellectually challenged.....or at very least socially challenged.

You have mo idea what you are even speaking about..twit.

[fastingforlife]

Of course blackmail wouldn't be the dire threat you apparently deem it to be if you weren't ashamed of your behavior. I'm just curious, what is it that would so shame you in front of your family: your wanking in front of the computer, your preference for chicks with dicks or the revelation of yor deeply ingrained racism? Imagine having to admit to your wife that you habituated a porn forum and then explain to her why you were kicked out! lol

Be assured I agree with Prospero on this one and find the use of blackmail something that ought to be avoided.

I am not ashamed of any aspect of my behavior. The original threat, was to out my political and social views, which my wife knows well, and my two adult daughters find comical. My employer on the other hand, is a bastion of political correctness, probably finding each and every view I hold as non-conforming. That being said, once you out my views, you also out my interest in hungangels. My wife would not care, again my daughters would most likley find this comical, but my employer would not. In summary, I like my privacy and anonymity preserved. An act of blackmail is a vile and criminal act against my person, which nobody on this board, including the owner should tolerate.