Hello all,

I'm writing from LA IMC. We had a meeting today (it was my first, actually)
and were discussing the disrupting activities of a person who calls
him/herself 'Bush Admirer'. We came to the consensus that he is in
violation of #6 and #10 of the Principles of Unity and we will further block
him from posting on la-imc's site.

One of the members in our collective said that both of you had already dealt
with him in some form or another. We were wondering how?

What we have decided to do is publicly announce that we are no longer
letting him post because he is in violation of those two principles and is
purposefully trying to divert attention away and disrupt the activities and
postings of people on the la-imc site. In our announcement we plan to show
evidence (i.e. some of his postings) and clearly explain why we have chosen
to take such an action.

The deeper issue that came up in our discussion, however, was that what we
really need to do (maybe on a national/international basis) is to come up
with a policy about posting, as we are sure that disruptors (FBI, right-wing
organizations, etc.) will keep on using the site to further THEIR causes and
weaken ours. We fully realize there are issues of freedom of speech
involved, but one of our members likened our problem to National forests.
We have set aside a space that can be collectively used, but if we don't at
least have some ground rules on how it can be used a huge corporation could
come in and start logging the area. Does this make any sense to you guys?

We would love your feedback/input on this issue and would really like to
collaborate on making a policy on posting so that there are clearer ways to
deal with these issues in the future, as we know they will only get worse.

Thanks so much!

Heidi

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