reply to post by Mr Pliskin
When it becomes "logical" for people to expect to be placed on a list by a political organization that calls itself an "anti-defamation" league,
and that list is clearly being compiled to demonize people who have relied on their own freedom to speak out against what they view as a problem then
logic has been hijacked and turned into doublespeak.
When new members join simply to be "honest" about how older members have been "brainwashed" by this site and to implicitly advocate the compiling
of lists to demonize free speakers who represent a view not conducive to a powerful state, and then claim that their reticence to join to begin with
was due to the fact that so many are comfortable with speaking freely, and declare that it should be expected that efforts to silence such freedom of
speech will be made, the question that must be asked is what are you advocating? Is your freedom to speak any less dangerous than those of whom you
believe to be dangerous? Are you advocating freedom of speech or advocating something far more insidious?
Increasingly there seems to be two camps of freedom fighters, those who fight for the freedom to, and those who fright for the freedom from. You have
always had the freedom from this site simply by making the choice not to lurk, and no one, (assuming the ADL didn't put you up to this), made you
join this site. That was your choice and until organizations such as the ADL find a way to shut sites like this down, you will continue to have the
freedom to join, and will always have the freedom from not joining, and no one needs the ADL to protect them from this site.