[MD] Member Removal

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
Arlo sermons imply that he is innocent of any wrong-doing.

[Arlo]
Arlo implies nothing, he states very directly that right-wing 
ideologues such as yourself have been bombarding this form with ad 
hominem attacks since my very first day on this list. You love to 
play the game of the poor victim, I get that, but any perusal of the 
archives will support this. And yet all along, you have never been 
censored. The very fact that you are here, today, to post this 
horrible rhetoric (again) proves my point.

Oh, I've learned to play the game, and that's perhaps the monkey on 
my back. Marsha responds with love and poetry, Ian dismisses it and 
moves on, Ron and DMB try reason (over and over and over), but I call 
it what it is. And then you play "poor Platt". Well, sorry, no 
empathy here. Years of your ideological insults and attacks, years of 
dealing with the most atrocious and vile deceptive rhetoric, has left 
me with no one bit of empathy for you, the Buddha flower in my soul 
has withered and died for you old man, sorry.

But still, I would never want you censored. Your attacks are funny, 
often absurd, and always frustrating, but they are never threatening. 
Even here, where you swoop in like an ideological vulture, ready to 
proclaim this as "socialist", you enjoy the freedom to post that 
nonsense uncensored. If you really think that Nick's veiled threats 
of gun violence, hell, overt threats of gun violence, is not crossing 
a line, then you are as blind as you are deceptive.

As I said, when Nick started with the whole commie, socialist thing 
it was merely a humorous extension of the ad hominems you've used 
here for years. When he moved on to thief, murder, tyrant, he was 
merely stepping up his game to walk lock-step with blowhards like 
Levin. Even the whole distortive rhetoric game ("Arlo advocates 
stealing", "Arlo is against freedom") was not really anything you 
yourself have used over and over for years. But "*pat* *pat* I have 
my gun right here" is a whole new ball game.