[MD] Member Removal

[MarshaV]

At 10:00 AM 6/10/2009, you wrote:
>[Ron]
>The gun rhetoric was getting worrisome.
>
>[Arlo]
>Yeah, this was my concern too. I don't mind they typical ad hominems deployed
>by people like Nick and Platt, they're funny and I usually just 
>respond to them
>in kind. I see Platt has confused this, trying to equivocate this with direct
>references of "I will kill you". That's either really sad, or really horrible
>on Platt's part.
>
>The right-wingers love their ad hominems, and Nick's barrage of socialist,
>commie, leftists, etc. just follows Platt's perennial buffoonery. When Nick
>shifted gear to thief, murderer, tyrant, etc. he got more aggressive but was
>also simply walking lock-step with the likes of radio blowhards like Mark
>Levin. But the "*pat* *pat* I have my gun waiting right here" put 
>Nick over the
>edge. To be honest, he doesn't live far away from me, and it stopped being
>funny. I don't mind being called names, hell that's all Platt has been doing
>since I joined, but threats of being shot? Yikes.
>
>And I see Platt's already it, "socialist censoring"... he's like a 
>vulture that
>smells carrion. This has nothing to do with with his "right-wing" views, since
>Platt and Ham have never been censored, despite their "right-wing" views or
>lack of connection with Pirsig's work.
>
>So even with the barrage of ad hominems directed at Krimel, Ian, Gav, DMB,
>Marsha, Ron, Andre, John and myself (did I miss anyone?) I don't think Horse
>would've considered this move were it not for the very real and very dangerous
>threats and allusions to shooting people. It wasn't funny the first time, but
>after being called a "thief" and "I got my gun waiting for you" a dozen times,
>one starts to worry. As I said, Platt's been bombarding this forum with ad
>hominems against "leftists" since the day I joined (and had the audacity to
>mention Marx, look it up in the archives), and no one is calling for his
>censoring.

Arlo,

Geez, I just didn't feel a physical threat from Nick.  I love you 
dearly, Arlo, but your rhetoric can be as down and dirty as Platt's 
any day of the week.  When the two of you go at it, I find you both 
not worth reading.  To my mind, you are both two sides of the same 
coin!!!  On the other hand, I love and respect you both and would 
deeply miss either of you if you left the forum.

Marsha



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