As I mentioned fairly rcently, I am saving all of my comments and replies in context so that they cannot be zeroed out by the neo-McCarthyites on this blog. A little while ago, I replied to a comment on one of Booman’s most recent posts, Did Trump Commit Treason or Not?.
Posted by lacerda-the first comment after Booman’s post:
Re: Did Trump Commit Treason or Not? (4.00 / 3)
I can’t think of a more serious act of war against the United States, short of nuclear attack, than stealing its people’s right to self-determination.Trump was not only aware of this plan, but complicit in it. The plan continues. Trump is still complicit.
It damn well is treason. Nothing short of that word suffices at describing the treachery involved. You may be right that pursuing treason as criminal charge is too messy a matter to try, but if the American people come to understand Trump and his co-conspirators as traitors, some measure of justice will be achieved.
I replied:
[lacerda] writes:
I can’t think of a more serious act of war against the United States, short of nuclear attack, than stealing its people’s right to self-determination.
I agree wholeheartedly. I think that anyone who in any way tried to steal people’s right to self-determination…the Trumpists/Russians as well as the DNC and its massive moves against Bernie Sanders in the primaries…should be tried in a court of law and if found guilty, convicted and punished unmercifully.
Right on!!!
AG
Nalbar zeroed me.
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Zeroing is an attempt at censorship. It is also the act of a craven coward without the intellectual ammunition to speak to me directly. As I said earlier…I will not be censored. You have something to say to me? Fine. Lay it on out there. We’ll talk.
But sneaking around like that? It’s rat-like.
AG
P.S. Now…I am not at all sure how zeroing works. Is one zero enough to immediately disappear someone’s post? I wouldn’t know because I am totally against the idea. If so…why is the post still up? Does it take two consecutive zeroes? If someone uprates it before someone else zeroes it, is the post then saved? It seems a perfect system for bot-lke hustlers to eliminate any information in the comments section that they deem unacceptable to their own goals.
Wow!!! If them damned Russkies had zero power, we’d all be in deep trouble!!!
WTFU.
P.P.S. I wrote:
I think that anyone who in any way tried to steal people’s right to self-determination…the Trumpists/Russians as well as the DNC and its massive moves against Bernie Sanders in the primaries…should be tried in a court of law and if found guilty, convicted and punished unmercifully.
With what part of that sentence do you so seriously disagree that you would want to zero it out, nalbar?
Certainly not these parts:
I think that anyone who in any way tried to steal people’s right to self-determination…should be tried in a court of law and if found guilty, convicted and punished unmercifully.
Right?
It must be this part:
…the Trumpists/Russians as well as the DNC and its massive moves against Bernie Sanders in the primaries…
I included the phrase “…should be tried in a court of law and if found guilty, convicted and punished unmercifully.” Why? Because that is what I believe, that’s why. Trial by impartial justice. There is certainly a great deal of evidence that Russian interests conspired to mess with the recent election, and fairly recently there were weeks and weeks of leaks and articles about collusion against Bernie Sanders inside of the halls of power in the Democratic Party as well.
I think that a fair trial is due both sides of that particular Scylla and Charybdis contretemps. I guess that you don’t. So it goes.
That’s un-American, nalbar!!!
So sorry to hear that about you.
Maybe they’re gonna come for you, next!!!
Doesn’t believe in fair trials; doesn’t believe in free speech.
Could happen…
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out–
Because I was not a Socialist.Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out–
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out–
Because I was not a Jew.Then they came for me–and there was no one left to speak for me.
Martin Niemöller
Did happen.
A poem for the ages.
