Big Papa;970950; said:
This isn't a political conversation/debate forum, it's a "Agree With Us or Prepare for the Attack Forum". Maybe we can change the name of this forum to "Republican Love Fest". It's especially disturbing to see someone trying to tell another BP member how they should post in a thread, and/or what they should discuss.
I was telling him how to post in this forum, as it's my responsibility to do so, and has been since this forum's inception. His ban was not due to my simply banning him because I disagreed with what he said, but rather it was the effect of his receiving a 10 point infraction for not following forum rules.
So where do you think the other 90 points of infractions he received came from? Well, it's very likely that he's received infractions for other violations that he's previously committed, and likely weren't all doled out by card-carrying members of the vast right-wing conspiracy.
The simple point here, is that he has been given plenty of opportunities to post here, and has received much guidance as to how he should post. This post was not the first like this and I doubt it will be his last. If you don't like the rules here, you are not required to post here either. But, as I've previously made clear to you, this forum is different than other forums.
Posters here get a great deal of leniency as to what topics they can discuss, and even how they can discuss them. He is welcome to make all of his conspiratorial claims that he'd like to, within their proper threads. This is not one of those such threads. This thread is about a phony soldier story. It does not have anything to do with the reasons as to why the war may have been started, rather it is about false tales as to things which allegedly occurred during the war.
So, I hope you can now see that his problem arose with his refusal to comply to forum rules, and not with simple regards as to what he was saying.
Edit: I think I'm going to split this off of the thread soon, so if anyone has any last comments, please add them now.