{"article":{"id":73558,"heading":"Im sick and tired of HIPOCRISY here at IMC","author":"Protesting the Protesters","created":"2003-07-21 22:06:04","modified":"2003-07-25 00:00:15","last_modified":"Fri, 25 Jul 2003 07:00:15","article":"

For all of you here who have either been labeled \"too right-wing\" or \"neo-con\" or \"trolls\" because you have said something pro-right wing, pro-Israel, or anti-anarchist, there is a NEW Los Angeles Indymedia Site coming. One which is not part of this bullshit \"collective\".

The reality is that the software which is used by LA Indymedia is FREE, and can be run on any Linux webserver using Apache 1.2 (both are FREE as well). LA Indymedia has tried to use the arrogant concept that they somehow have a reign on Open Publishing here in Los Angeles, but they dont. There is NO \"tribunal\" or \"Principles of Unity\" which will stop anyone from opening up their own IMC.

Once open, there is nothing LA IMC can do to govern any other IMC which opens here in Los Angeles. There is no set of rules and no license which controls webmasters of IMCs. There is a NEW Indymedia site on the horizon here in Los Angeles....its coming soon.<\/p>\n","contact":"pyramideon@yahoo.com","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"This Newswire has fallen victim to the same censoring bullshit it protests against. The hypocrisy has become extreme.","numcomment":54,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/07\/73558.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":73559,"heading":"Im SO ready for that!","article":"These arrogant assholes think they have all the power. The software is FREE????","author":"A banned contributor.","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-21 22:07:57","modified":"2003-07-21 22:07:57","fileurl":""},{"id":73562,"heading":"IMC","article":""There is NO "tribunal" or "Principles of Unity" which will stop anyone from opening up their own IMC."\r\n\r\nNot so fast. IMC has built up a brand. They have carefully cultivated this brand to appeal to the anti-American\/anti-capitalist\/anti-globalization\/anti-___fill-in-the-blank___ crowd. So you will find it difficult to start your own independent media site. A brand is a formidable barrier to entry.\r\n\r\n","author":"Probably banned tomorrow","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-21 22:23:09","modified":"2003-07-21 22:23:09","fileurl":""},{"id":73563,"heading":"IMC is a brand, but LA Indymedia certainly didnt create it!","article":"The original concept did not originate with LA Indymedia, and you know it. The software was delevoped by a group of FREE THINKERS who believe in FREE SPEECH. Those principles are no longer alive and well here. You go and ban contributors who are not sufficiently "radical" or left enough for your tastes. You are arrogant, and complacent.\r\n\r\nThe motto of the Indymedia.Org main site is: \r\n\r\n"Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth." \r\n\r\nYou are no longer a democracy. You are a dictatorship. So, am I to be banned for telling TRUTH? Feel free.\r\n","author":"Generic IMC","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-21 22:29:57","modified":"2003-07-21 22:29:57","fileurl":""},{"id":73566,"heading":"Something else...","article":""So you will find it difficult to start your own independent media site. A brand is a formidable barrier to entry"\r\n\r\nPerhaps you are right, but I already own a website which is getting over 10,000 hits per day. Starting the IMC will not be difficult at all. You do not dictate what is and what is not appropriate to be posted here on an OPEN PUBLISHING site. I have already visited this page: http:\/\/process.indymedia.org\/want_imc.php3 and I have the resources necessary in order to start the site.\r\n\r\nPerhaps if you people werent so arrogant and dictatorial, you might consider reviewing the principles of running an IMC by the founding principles.","author":"Your future competitor IMC","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-21 22:38:41","modified":"2003-07-21 22:38:41","fileurl":""},{"id":73569,"heading":"More sites for Mad Max.","article":"Good open another OPEN PUBLISHING site,.....\r\n\r\nOpen 1,000 new sites. Do it now. More sites for Mad Max.","author":"More sites for Mad Max.","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-21 23:13:12","modified":"2003-07-21 23:13:12","fileurl":""},{"id":73572,"heading":"You could call something catchy....","article":"...like Free Republic.\r\n\r\nOf course since it is the most censored Bulletin Board on the Web - Libertarians and even some Conservatives need not appy - certainly they would not let anyone who is Not Rabidly Pro Israel "Death to the Arabs", and in favor of Deifying George, only 16 words, Bush Post.\r\n\r\nLA Indy whatever faults it might have is an order of magnitude more open than "Free" Republic.\r\n\r\nI suspect any Troll based "Independent" site would rapidly become "Open" in name only.","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-21 23:26:30","modified":"2003-07-21 23:26:30","fileurl":""},{"id":73574,"heading":"Troll\/Jew based "Independent" site","article":"I suspect any Troll\/Jew based "Independent" site would rapidly become "Open" in name only.\r\n\r\nThat this would be the case is very apparent to anyone who has been around the web long.","author":"Troll\/Jew based "Independent" site","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-21 23:35:00","modified":"2003-07-21 23:35:00","fileurl":""},{"id":73575,"heading":"The Troll\/Jew based posting is hate speech","article":"Please take the hate speech posting down.\r\n\r\n","author":"anti-racist","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-21 23:37:36","modified":"2003-07-21 23:37:36","fileurl":""},{"id":73577,"heading":"Yep, I've already registered all the logical domains","article":"I'm ahead of the curve on this issue. I've already registered all the logical domains:\r\n\r\nHttp:\/\/la.indymediasucks.com\r\nhttp:\/\/la.indymediasucks.org\r\nhttp:\/\/la.diogenessucks.org\r\nhttp:\/\/la.sheepdogsucks.org\r\n\r\nThat seems to cover the most likely domain names.","author":"Bush Admirer","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-21 23:38:03","modified":"2003-07-21 23:38:03","fileurl":""},{"id":73580,"heading":"You're such a robot","article":"You never responded to my question, all the while you talked of being a debate master.\r\n\r\nNow you show how stupid you are about the internet (even though you claim to be someone in the tech industry). Maybe you operate the copy machine.\r\n\r\nYou, BA, the "la" in front of the domain indymedia is a server designation, not a domain name. Your domains above are bogus -- and even if you did pick domains that could be taken, anyone looking up sheepdogsucks.org or whatever would see that you didn't register them (newsflash bozo -- "whois" lookup is free and public)\r\n\r\nMan, you really do like wasting your time around here, don't you? \r\n\r\nwhat a moron.........","author":"x","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-21 23:57:32","modified":"2003-07-21 23:57:32","fileurl":""},{"id":73581,"heading":"Isn't it interesting how the...","article":"...Pro Israel Trolls jump right in at the slightest hint of criticism of Israel.\r\n\r\nIsrael != Jew\r\n\r\nIsrael = Israel = Zionists\r\n\r\nZionism is a Political Movement and is not Judaism.\r\n\r\nSome Zionists are Jews, some are Atheists, some are Christians, some are agnostics.\r\n\r\nNotice that this is the standard PR Spin - criticism, however just, of Israel is immediately labeled Anti-Jew.\r\n\r\nIt is not Anti-Jew it is opposition to inhumane Israeli policies. It is Pro-Jew in that it supports the best interests and traditions of Judaism by refuting the notion that Israeli Zionists speak for all Jews. They do not.","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-21 23:58:34","modified":"2003-07-21 23:58:34","fileurl":""},{"id":73582,"heading":"haha","article":"" There is a NEW Indymedia site on the horizon here in Los Angeles....its coming soon" - Good, fine, cya good luck. No one will be weeping the loss of you here, I guarantee.\r\n\r\nAlso, what you actually meant to say was 'There is a new website for conservative biased independant media promotion coming that focuses on LA'. Which is, of course, laughable because if there's anything conservatives hate its independance. To say there's a new 'Indymedia' site is much the same as saying you're going to make a new CNN.com.\r\n\r\nAs for the 'startling' revelation that the software that this site is made from is 'FREE FREE FREE!', well, welcome to the world of Open Source. Everything is free, thats the great thing about it. I wouldn't expect you to refer to open source by name though as it is rather contrary to traditional conservative values (PROFIT PROFIT PROFIT!!). If anyone reading this is interested in free legal software they are highly encouraged to check out the open source movement.\r\n\r\nI hope you guys do go make your own website and go away. That would be great. And then we can watch you whine about being censored when you try to spam it here. That will be funny ("You're hindering my right to bitch about your website ON your website!!! WAAAH!! WAAAAAAH!!")\r\n\r\nYou fascist pinheads are priceless. You'd be funny as hell if you weren't systematically destroying our country.","author":"matt","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-21 23:59:28","modified":"2003-07-21 23:59:28","fileurl":""},{"id":73584,"heading":"Evidently the LA Indy Character set...","article":"...does not support the inequality symbol which is what I used in the first statement in equation form.\r\n\r\nIt should have been "Israel does not equal Jew".","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 00:01:08","modified":"2003-07-22 00:01:08","fileurl":""},{"id":73585,"heading":"close enough","article":"from a logical comparison point of view, != is equivelant to 'not equal' in most programming languages. Made sense to me right away.\r\n\r\nOf course, microsoft had to be all weird and go for <> as being not equal in VB. whatever...","author":"matt","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 00:03:41","modified":"2003-07-22 00:03:41","fileurl":""},{"id":73590,"heading":"Au revoir!","article":"Go...go...\r\n\r\nand take your racism, your blindness, your simplicities, your lousy porn, your fascist complicity, your blood-soaked justifications for death, death and more death with you.\r\n\r\nI am sure you can probably get funding from the oil companies and the Aryan Bros.\r\n\r\nGo...Go...and go quickly while you still believe anyone cares about your shillish infantilisms.\r\n\r\n","author":"Parmenides","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 00:15:39","modified":"2003-07-22 00:15:39","fileurl":""},{"id":73591,"heading":"My my...all this hoopla over the MERE threat of competition?","article":"You fools think that anything Right Wing is associated with the Free Republic, or Pro-Israel crowd? How pathetic. What are you afraid of? ","author":"Chuckling at Fools","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 00:17:00","modified":"2003-07-22 00:17:00","fileurl":""},{"id":73592,"heading":"There it is","article":""Pro Israel Trolls"\r\n\r\ndisingenuous let's his true colors show.\r\n\r\nTo be Pro Israel on any level is to be a "troll".\r\n\r\nNo headroom.\r\n\r\nOf course, the implied inverse is that being Pro Terrorist is righteous.\r\n\r\nAs disingenuous always says, "If it ain't American or Jewish, it's gotta be good!"\r\n\r\n","author":"fresca","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 00:18:01","modified":"2003-07-22 00:18:01","fileurl":""},{"id":73593,"heading":"Question for Parmenides","article":"Parmenides - Are you speaking to Matt, Diogenes, X, or all three??","author":"Lurker","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 00:18:57","modified":"2003-07-22 00:18:57","fileurl":""},{"id":73601,"heading":"You're kidding right?","article":""laughable because if there's anything conservatives hate its independance"\r\n\r\nYou've got to be kidding right? This impilies that the left is somehow a beacon of freedom and open expression. Even you in your clearly deluded state can't honestly believe that.\r\n\r\nThe left which virtually bans ALL center to right speakers on Campuses. The left which, at this very site, is all excited about coming up with new and exciting methods of censorship. The left which exhausts itself trying to tell us that we must tailor our language, sense of humour and aesthetics so as not to damage anyones' sensibilities, lest the unforgivable sin of hurting a feeling is committed. (Unless, of course, those feelings belong to white christians...preferably Catholics).\r\n\r\nGive me a break. You're obsession with using your PHP scripts to ban users of this site is proof enough of that. \r\n\r\nThe left and tolerance CANNOT ride in the same car.","author":"fresca","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 00:31:29","modified":"2003-07-22 00:31:29","fileurl":""},{"id":73602,"heading":"Thank You Fresca","article":"Thank you Fresca. That was a great post and dead-on the money.","author":"Bush Admirer","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 00:33:57","modified":"2003-07-22 00:33:57","fileurl":""},{"id":73604,"heading":"To Lurker","article":"It should be obvious, my comments are directed at the bozo's like bush ad, frescabot, and all the other right wing loonies who are willing to sacrifice the Bill of Rights, the global biosphere, and sentincing countless human lives to mind-numbing poverty so they can drive their bloated asses around in suvs.","author":"Parmenides","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 00:45:28","modified":"2003-07-22 00:45:28","fileurl":""},{"id":73605,"heading":"You got it BA","article":"I suspect it'll fall on deaf, deluded ears.","author":"fresca","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 00:49:22","modified":"2003-07-22 00:49:22","fileurl":""},{"id":73607,"heading":"How dare you","article":"How dare you, you right-wing shills, for driving around in SUVs. You know that just "sentinces" countless humans to mind-numbing poverty. Just think how quickly the poor would rise from poverty if you had bought an electric car instead. After all, keeping the oil in the ground is much more valuable for the poor than trading that oil for US dollars. \r\n\r\nWhat a bunch of morons.\r\n\r\n","author":"Eddie","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 00:52:48","modified":"2003-07-22 00:52:48","fileurl":""},{"id":73608,"heading":"Jesus H Christ","article":""After all, keeping the oil in the ground is much more valuable for the poor than trading that oil for US dollars."\r\n\r\nBadda Bing!!!!!\r\n\r\nRight on the fucking head!\r\n\r\nExcellent.","author":"fresca","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 00:57:53","modified":"2003-07-22 00:57:53","fileurl":""},{"id":73611,"heading":"OK, let's count SUV's","article":"I don't have an SUV. I really dislike them. I drive a BMW 530i and my wife had a BMW Z3.\r\n\r\nHow about you Fresca and you Eddie?? Big SUV gas guzzlers?","author":"Bush Admirer","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 01:06:15","modified":"2003-07-22 01:06:15","fileurl":""},{"id":73616,"heading":"Nope","article":"I don't. My girlfriend does. She needs it for work and I'm damn happy they exist for that reason in and of itself.\r\n\r\nOf course, given the choice, I'd be driving a '70 Hemi Cuda which would make any SUV look like a bike.","author":"fresca","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 01:15:12","modified":"2003-07-22 01:15:12","fileurl":""},{"id":73618,"heading":"why bother","article":"To BA\/fresca\/any other rightwing fascist fuckwit who would try to misrepresent what my statements:\r\n\r\nWell, I was going to go into my statements and extract the specific portions that declare my intent of establishing a system by which people can determine themselves what they do or do not see. Apparently this attempt at endowing the user with the free will of ignoring tripe they care not for is contrary to right wing beliefs that everyone, everywhere, must listen to (and believe) everything you have to say.\r\n\r\nBut whats the use of rehashing what i've already said repeatedly. I've already done it several times before, the people that would accuse the system of unduly censoring them are just trying to pander to the percieved fears of what they consider this sites viewing public and\/or administration. \r\n\r\nAlso, for someone complaining about being censored and opressed, you sure do post a lot BA. How does that work?\r\n\r\nTo relate what I have proposed to censorship is akin to suggesting that when someone changes a channel on their mindcontroldevice, err, TV, that they are in fact censoring all the channels they aren't at that moment watching. My proposition does not unduly restrict anyones ability to make any sort of statement they'd like. Naturally it could be abused, as any system could, but the system of weighted votes where the managers of the site have the largest but not the absolute say in what stays or goes is designed to minimize the impact of inappropriate voting. \r\n\r\nIf you took the time to read my suggestions, you'll see that all I have ever tried to inhibit is the propogation of worthless statements. And I have sited people from 'both sides' of the table, as well as "Bush Admirer" specifically because regardless of how much BA and Fresca mutually masterbate each other, in reality there is not much substance behind anything BA says. There generally isn't much to Fresca's statements either but BA is far more prone to say nothing at all for a page or two.\r\n\r\nBut I'm sure you have already read what i've proposed and decided that anyone who hasn't could be easily coerced into thinking its actually censorship. Wake up you assholes, not everyone is as ignorant as you would like to think they are.\r\n\r\nBA is just an example anyways, the point is that the system needs restructured to accomodate a more intelligible system of content delivery. A well thought out system will not unduly censor anyone, regardless of how many times you say it will, fresca\/ba.\r\n\r\nI for one am amazed that the LA-IMC staff have been as tolerant of your bullshit as they have. It must truly be a test of will to not censor the hell out of the lot of you.\r\n\r\nYou say we, the left, are quick to whine that our views don't get enough coverage in the media sources we would like more representation in. But do we try to forcibly include our views onto say, CNN's website? No. We leave, make our own venue of media distribution, and can barely get it setup before you whiney bastards declare in unconstitutional that we would dare have a single venue of communication not caked with reich-wing propoganda.\r\n\r\nWhy don't you guys (right wing fascist assholes) go away? You've threatened to do it in another thread, so put up or shut up already. Leave.\r\n\r\nOr... How about this. If you get foxnews to air a single statement that isn't slanderously anti-democrat and IMC will, uhh, continue to do what it has been doing for a while now, letting anyone with a browser post just about anything online... But special this time, just for you.","author":"matt","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 01:17:11","modified":"2003-07-22 01:17:11","fileurl":""},{"id":73623,"heading":"The answer is Matt","article":"Matt - The reason people like Fresca, Eddie, Simple Simon, and myself are here is that we wish to protest.\r\n\r\nWe are anti-bullshit demonstrators and protesters against liberal nonsense.\r\n\r\nThat's why we're here.\r\n\r\nDo you have a problem with protests?","author":"Bush Admirer","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 01:24:26","modified":"2003-07-22 01:24:26","fileurl":""},{"id":73624,"heading":"matty","article":"Save your breath for breathin' son.\r\n\r\nYou've been all over this board with your lame threats of "getting rid" of certain people if they continue to piss you off (as if you even could ). So spare us the whole "All I ever wanted to do was enble choice blah, blah, blah" bullshit. By the way, do your own search your recent posts if you've forgotten. If I'm not mistaken you were quite the laughing stock there for awhile, even for some of the lackies in your own murder.\r\n\r\nYour posts are just so much humorless angry drivel from some lonely whiner stuck behind too many monitors. \r\n\r\nSo continue on if you must with your empty threats and hysterical blatherings about nothing. Stick to videogames. At least then when you get all upset over all the injustices and "fascism" that seems to hound you constantly, you can find some other likeminded 12 year old andfrag him.\r\n","author":"fresca","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 01:28:22","modified":"2003-07-22 01:28:22","fileurl":""},{"id":73625,"heading":"Bitter Neo-Cons Whine Like Losers","article":"Enough said above. Thank you. \r\n\r\nIts just interesting that the neo-cons and shills are turning up their whining\r\n(would you like a little cheese and crackers with that?) now that their \r\ndemigod has been exposed for the punk-ass liar that he always was.\r\n\r\nIMC FOREVER","author":"mediawatcher","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 01:28:28","modified":"2003-07-22 01:28:28","fileurl":""},{"id":73626,"heading":"Bitter Neo-Cons Whine Like Losers","article":"Enough said above. Thank you. \r\n\r\nIts just interesting that the neo-cons and shills are turning up their whining\r\n(would you like a little cheese and crackers with that?) now that their \r\ndemigod has been exposed for the punk-ass liar that he always was.\r\n\r\nIMC FOREVER","author":"mediawatcher","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 01:28:35","modified":"2003-07-22 01:28:35","fileurl":""},{"id":73629,"heading":"frescaw engages in it's usual childish...","article":"...antics. \r\n\r\n""Pro Israel Trolls" \r\n\r\ndisingenuous let's his true colors show. \r\n\r\nTo be Pro Israel on any level is to be a "troll". \r\n\r\nNo headroom. \r\n\r\nOf course, the implied inverse is that being Pro Terrorist is righteous. \r\n\r\nAs disingenuous always says, "If it ain't American or Jewish, it's gotta be good!" "\r\n\r\nAs usual this is the old distort out of shape someone else's words and falsely attribute a position to them they do not hold and then attack the falsehood.\r\n\r\nNot all supporters of Israel are Trolls nor are all Trolls supporters of Israel.\r\n\r\nIf someone jumps onto a statement and instead of factually or logically refuting the statement but just levels a blanket charge of anti-Jew, anti-Semite etc.. they define themselves by their actions.\r\n\r\nNotice frescaw's blatant dishonesty.\r\n\r\nFirst charicature and misrepresent my position i.e., from Pro-Israel Troll we get the false extension of all people who are Pro-Israel are Trolls. Logically invalid. My statement was limited frescaw's is universal. In logic terms what frescaw is saying is:\r\n\r\nSome = All\r\n\r\nWhich is of course False as anyone who has ever done a Logic 101 Course can tell.\r\n\r\nAs is frescaw's argument.\r\n\r\n\r\nAnd then throw in a false analogy.\r\n\r\nThat calling a Pro-Israel Troll a Troll is support of Terrorism and of course the gratuitous slap against the Palestinian People by implying that all Palestinians are Terrorists.\r\n\r\nVintage frescaw. Convoluted, misrepresentation, dishonest, and of course false.\r\n\r\nTilt\r\n\r\nPlay Again?","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 01:36:34","modified":"2003-07-22 01:36:34","fileurl":""},{"id":73632,"heading":"No SUV for me","article":"I drive a small car (Porsche)","author":"Eddie","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 01:38:27","modified":"2003-07-22 01:38:27","fileurl":""},{"id":73634,"heading":"disingenuous","article":"You still got it old man1\r\n\r\nNotice how the crazy old fruitckae (simple observation - no ad hominem attack yet) is trying to squirm away from the fact that he has CONSTANTLY belittled and berated ANYONE who is even slightly pro Israel as a Zionist( somehow this is derogatory in his mind) or as a troll.\r\n\r\nALL Pro Israeli people are "trolls" to him.\r\n\r\ndisingenuous, I sorta love you.\r\n\r\nYou make this board.\r\n\r\nYour ability to dodge questions and outright lie is a sight to behold. The fact that you are utterly irrelevant makes you soooo entertaining.\r\n\r\nSimply put, you are an anti-semite. That in and of itself is just sad. Watching you try to wriggle away from those who call you on it, however, is great fun.\r\n\r\nThank you God for making my enemies ridiculous.","author":"fresca","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 01:46:01","modified":"2003-07-22 01:46:01","fileurl":""},{"id":73637,"heading":"Thank you G-d...","article":"...for making mine idiots.\r\n\r\nYour argument is so stupid and unsupported as to be laughable.\r\nYou are now compounding things by holding yourself up for further ridicule - well earned I might add.\r\n\r\nBecause one opposes the inhuman actions of a Government does not mean one hates all the people of a Nation or even that Nation. It means you oppose the inhuman actions of that Government.\r\n\r\nIsrael is one of the most Racist Regimes on the Planet.\r\nTo be a non-Jew in Israel is to automatically, UNDER ISRAELI LAW, be a second class citizen.\r\n\r\nNon Jew Arab Israeli's are not allowed to buy homes in some neighborhoods, are discriminated against in employment and are treated little different than Americans of African Ancestry were prior to the Civil Rights Movement.\r\n\r\nEven Sephardic Jews (Jews of Arab Ancestry) are relegated to below Ashkenazim (Jews of European Ancestry). The whole mess is really rather sick.\r\n\r\nThe Jim Crow Laws of Israel support such actions.\r\n\r\nEven Sephardic Jews (Jews of Arab Ancestry) are relegated to below Ashkenazim (Jews of European Ancestry). The whole mess is really rather sick.\r\n\r\nMore than that it is just Insane.\r\n\r\nAs is frescaw's constant lies and misrepresentations.\r\n\r\nOh frescaw:\r\n\r\n"If a dog has four Legs and a Tail and you call the Tail a Leg how many Legs does it have?\r\nFour. Calling a Tail a Leg doesn't make it a Leg." \r\n----- Abraham Lincoln","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 02:01:39","modified":"2003-07-22 02:01:39","fileurl":""},{"id":73641,"heading":"Thank you Matt for clarifying the lead article","article":"How dod you say it?: "I for one am amazed that the LA-IMC staff have been as tolerant of your bullshit as they have. It must truly be a test of will to not censor the hell out of the lot of you. "\r\n\r\nWhat you dont know, Matt, is that all IMCs are different. They dont need any "staff" to run them, and they shouldnt be censoring ANYTHING based on political content or wether or not it meets some presumptuous agenda the Liberal trolls here have agreed upon. You are a moron. That is the reason there will be another IMC established here in Los Angeles. It wont morph into some bullshit censorshop like LA IMC has become. My jaw dropped after reading this:\r\n\r\n"I'm writing from LA IMC. We had a meeting today (it was my first, actually) \r\nand were discussing the disrupting activities of a person who calls \r\nhim\/herself 'Bush Admirer'. We came to the consensus that he is in \r\nviolation of #6 and #10 of the Principles of Unity and we will further block \r\nhim from posting on la-imc's site. "\r\n\r\n\r\nWHAT? "violation of #6 and #10 of the Principles of Unity "????? What the fuck are the Principles of Unity? So, anything posted which is considered pro-Administration (Bush or anyone else) and\/or pro-Israel is to be considered "disruptive"? Okaaaaay. LA Indymedia will soon be just like the entities it is supposedly fighting against. Just as I have become the conservative child of liberals who grew up in the 60's. Time to change channels.\r\n","author":"Protesting the Protesters","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 02:09:36","modified":"2003-07-22 02:09:36","fileurl":""},{"id":73643,"heading":"Give 'em hell, Dio","article":"Keep it up, Dio. That's why we're paying you that $7.75 per hour. It's tough to find computer users up here in Idaho. We appreciate all the work you've been doing to spread the good word. White power.\r\n\r\nSieg heil,\r\nTom","author":"Tom Metzger","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 02:14:24","modified":"2003-07-22 02:14:24","fileurl":""},{"id":73650,"heading":"One problem with the above post...","article":"...other than it's being untrue is that I would never qualify as "White" under their standards. I am fair complected, just to be open, but my Ancestry was given me by a bunch of Jews and Indians in the main.\r\n\r\nTilt\r\n\r\nPlay Again?","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 02:46:05","modified":"2003-07-22 02:46:05","fileurl":""},{"id":73653,"heading":"I'm sick and tired of people who can't spell.","article":"It's H - y - p - o - c - r - i - s - y.\r\n\r\nHypocrisy.\r\n\r\nhypocrisy\r\n\r\nhypocrite","author":"Webster","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 03:30:01","modified":"2003-07-22 03:30:01","fileurl":""},{"id":73656,"heading":"Hey Webster","article":"How do you feel about illegal immigrants that can't even say hippocropsy never mind spell it?\r\n\r\nDo you hate disleksics too?\r\n\r\n","author":"Rational Normal Person","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 03:33:35","modified":"2003-07-22 03:33:35","fileurl":""},{"id":73660,"heading":"LA IMC is Correct.","article":"LA IMC is dealing with a group of individuals intentionally engaged in defamation. Such activities are not free speech. Cyber stalking is illegal and is the product of mental illness. There is no reason why IndyMedia resources should be used to assist mentally ill right wingers in their vendetas against activists.","author":"Mary","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 04:52:55","modified":"2003-07-22 04:52:55","fileurl":""},{"id":73662,"heading":"Right on Mary!!!!","article":"Mary!!!! Do you know that in Nazi Gernany in the mid 1930's they "exterminated" the mentally ill? and of course you know what the rest of the story was.\r\n\r\nAre you trying to deny the basic rights to the mentally ill now???\r\n\r\nYou said..... ""There is no reason why IndyMedia resources should be used to assist mentally ill right wingers in their vendetas ""\r\n\r\nSo what about mentally ill left wingers????\r\n\r\nand closer to home mentally (and there is proof) ill Anarachnists?\r\n\r\nShot yourself in the foot that time Stevie.","author":"Rational Normal Person","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 04:58:32","modified":"2003-07-22 04:58:32","fileurl":""},{"id":73674,"heading":"English Translation of Mary's Post","article":"1): LA IMC is dealing with a group of individuals intentionally engaged in defamation.\r\n\r\nTranslation: Some of the people who post here don't agree with Mary's extreme views. In her mind someone who disagrees with her is defaming her.\r\n\r\n2): Such activities are not free speech. \r\nMary has zero tolerance for opinions different from her own. \r\n\r\n3): Cyber stalking is illegal and is the product of mental illness. \r\n\r\nWhen you view the world the Mary's lens it seems that approximately two thirds of Americans are mentally ill. That would be the two thirds who think George W. Bush is doing a fine job as President; that the war in Iraq is the right thing to do; that America should support Israel; and that going after terrorists as we did in Afghanistan is the right thing to do.\r\n\r\n4): There is no reason why IndyMedia resources should be used to assist mentally ill right wingers in their vendetas against activists.\r\n\r\nWhen you set up a web site and announce that it's purpose is "Open Publishing" one might expect to see some differing views posted there. What we actually do find here is radical left wingers with their vendettas against the Bush Administration being countered by sober and thoughtful Republicans. That's the essence of a free and open discussion -- exactly what Open Publishing is about.\r\n","author":"Bush Admirer","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 10:16:15","modified":"2003-07-22 10:16:15","fileurl":""},{"id":73675,"heading":"So you see, Mary...youre still a stinkweed by any other name","article":"No matter what name you choose, the reactions are the same. YOU are mentally ill, and you are probably the best example of a HYPOCRITE we can find here at Indymedia. Not to mention your....er.....I mean, SRD's utterly hypocritical trinket shop where he becomes the quintessential capitalist. All this from an self-declared anarchist? In the same site(s), threatens legal action against detractors from the government he is trying to abolish?\r\n\r\nWhatever floats your boat, bitch. Run along now, you wouldnt want the JDL\/Mossad\/FBI to catch up with you there in Massachussets, now would you?","author":"Anna","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 10:28:58","modified":"2003-07-22 10:28:58","fileurl":""},{"id":73764,"heading":"Posts from Anna are from KOBE.","article":"KOBE has usurped the name Anna just as KOBE sometimes usurps my name.\r\n\r\nThe Bush hating business is going well. Anti-Bush bumper stickers are flying off of the shelves.\r\n\r\nIf you're stuck in a capitalist economy, anarcho-capitalism is the next best thing to anarcho-communism.\r\n\r\nHaving fun hating Bush and getting paid for it.","author":"Mary","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-22 23:49:10","modified":"2003-07-22 23:49:10","fileurl":""},{"id":73769,"heading":"Glad you are making an honest living.","article":"So there is real money to be made in selling bumper stickers???? \r\n\r\nI see the main theme of the stickers is to either ridicule or bring down the government. You are an anarchist whose aim is... " The Rational Anarchist philosophy, while believing that all government should be abolished, recognizes the practical and obvious: government exists."\r\n\r\nYeah!!! too right Mary!! The practical and obvious fact is that if there was no government then nobody would buy anti-government bumper stickers would they???\r\n\r\nYou NEED a government to keep your money coming in... No government, no bumper sticker sales!!\r\n\r\nBe very careful what you wish for......\r\n\r\n","author":"Rational Normal Person","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-23 00:02:43","modified":"2003-07-23 00:02:43","fileurl":""},{"id":73787,"heading":"Fuck the Government.","article":"Bring it down!\r\n\r\nNo government means no one to protect you, RNP.","author":"Mary","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-23 02:04:49","modified":"2003-07-23 02:04:49","fileurl":""},{"id":73791,"heading":"Wait until you find out the kicker!","article":"http:\/\/www.gseis.ucla.edu\/iclp\/itfa.htm \r\n\r\nThe businesses whom you have unwittingly ensnared in your desperate move to sell pathetic bumper stickers and trinkets will soon be receiving a letter from the IRS inquiring about taxes. In addition, the IRS has already been notified of your sales, and your involvement in interstate commerce violations.\r\n\r\n"Flying off the shelves". BWAHAHAHA! at $3.00 a pop. you would have to sell an awful lot of them to make a living. We know where you are, and what your situation is, Stephen DeVoy. Massachusetts is not a very good place to hide.\r\n\r\nWe see you, Stephen.","author":"IRS agent","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-23 02:16:31","modified":"2003-07-23 02:16:31","fileurl":""},{"id":73792,"heading":"and no government to protect you either","article":"I am glad you are thinking your anarchist shit through to its conclusion "Mary"\r\n\r\nThe same oppressive government that allows me to live free and spout shit is the very same government that allows you to do the same!\r\n\r\nBy the way... I hope you are declaring the profits from your sticker sales to the IRS....\r\n\r\n","author":"Rational Normal Person","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-23 02:19:42","modified":"2003-07-23 02:19:42","fileurl":""},{"id":73806,"heading":"High fives!","article":"I never saw the above IRS post as I posted, I was busy feeding the cat....\r\n\r\nLMAO!","author":"Rational Normal Person","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-23 02:34:08","modified":"2003-07-23 02:34:08","fileurl":""},{"id":73900,"heading":"Coffee Talk","article":"The poster known as "Rational Normal Person" is neither rational nor normal. Discuss amongst yaselves.","author":"Linda Richman","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-23 14:34:38","modified":"2003-07-23 14:34:38","fileurl":""},{"id":73925,"heading":"How do you know that?","article":"He or she sounds more sane than most of the others here. Look at the posts by Mary!","author":"Michael Latimore","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-23 15:33:02","modified":"2003-07-23 15:33:02","fileurl":""},{"id":74009,"heading":"My world","article":"In my world, grass is flourescent pink.","author":"Michael Latimore","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-24 10:46:09","modified":"2003-07-24 10:46:09","fileurl":""},{"id":74241,"heading":"The Mossad stole my Happy Meal","article":"There I was, enjoying my Happy Meal, and a child (employed by the Mossad, of course) came up and grabbed it. She stole the toy too!","author":"Mary","parent_id":73558,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-25 00:00:15","modified":"2003-07-25 00:00:15","fileurl":""}]}