Reply #337: Skinner, Why on Earth are you encouraging these brutes?

[FubarFly]

No sane person would think that the anonymous voices of a few posters in an internet message board represents an entire community- let alone the official position of it's administrators. This type of thinking is so basically idiotic that it would bore a child. Making your views clear is one thing, playing into the hands of a corrupt media with a knee jerk authoritarian response- effectively intimidating some honest proponents of democracy- is quite another. Can't you just say that while you adamantly disagree with some of the sentiments expressed on this board, you support the open exchange of ideas, and the right of free speech? Can anyone who doesn't already have an agenda to silence DU really find fault with that?

Remember: CENSORSHIP IS EXACTLY WHAT THE NEO-FASCISTS WANT.

Please don't play by their rules.

Sometimes the best ideas sprout from the most unlikeliest of sources. Even the wisest among us can't determine from whom those will come. It would be folly to suggest otherwise. Just because you can't see value in an outlandish theory, doesn't mean that value isn't there.

I sincerely hope you reconsider your position on this matter and inevitably, similar issues in the future.