NOT ALL COUNTRIES guarantee their citizens the right to virtually unbridled freedom of speech. The United States does. Would someone please tell the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama? And the dozing guardians of liberty at the University of Mary Washington?What a contrast with a McCain-Palin rally where home-made signs are rampant. It tells you something about how each candidate views the rights of the people who come and see them.Mr. Obama, the Democratic nominee for president, is scheduled to speak at a rally at the university today. The public is invited to this forum, on property it, the public, owns. However, signs and banners will not be allowed, according to the organizers and compliant campus officials. Suddenly, UMW is a First Amendment-Free, or at least a First Amendment-Crippled, Zone, subject to the self-serving preferences of politicos. Why does an Obama rally--or a McCain rally or a Nader rally--justify taking a little off the top of Americans' most fundamental rights?
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I'm thinking that GAT is really a liberal...
I figured you'd eventually come to that conclusion ... I think we've all toyed with the possibility but, as you read more from him, I think you'll see that's wishful thinking. He is the genuine article.
Jazzypaul, thank you for your very gracious, patient, and thoughtful comments, and MzEllen, thank you very much for trying to teach GAT some manners. I, too, have sometimes wondered if he is a liberal who is trying to make conservatives look bad with his ignorant and boorish behavior. If I were Michelle, I would delete his comments as a violation of Beliefnet's rules as well as the most fundamental notions of human decency.
I hope some day Guy Arthur Thomas will have enough respect for his ideas and the rights of others that he will feel up to responsible, substantive conversation on the issues instead of the same tired insults. Until then I think it is best to ignore him. He seems to take any acknowledgment as positive feedback. He just posts the same tired capital letters and exclamation points over and over. I feel sorry for him.
Folks, Guy is simply getting off on the attention he is receiving here. He is a troll, plain and simple. He posts here for one reason only...to get a reaction. Give him a reaction, even a negative one, and he loves it. He's like a flasher in the park, showing his goods to kiddies that come by. He wants the buzz from the reaction...nothing else.
He doesn't have to offer any intelligent opinion here. That is not what he wants. He wants to stir things up, push buttons, and provoke an argument. Try to engage him in an intelligent discussion and he will resort to his usual spew.
Guy seems to be a wide spread troll. He puts in appearances on many other blogs...either that or he has purloined a name for here.
thevulgartruth.blogtownhall.com/default.aspx
deceiver.com/2008/08/21/john-mccain-and-the-527-connection/
(note comment below main blog entry)
www.mediabistro.com/bbs/cache/t39681_1.asp
www.theconservativevoice.com/article/30407.html
If you don't like Guy, don't respond to him. Eventually he will go elsewhere where he can get what he wants...attention. Let him ramble and look like a loon. Talk around him. Eventually he will cross the line and Beliefnet will sanction him.
But as long as you address him, even in a polite manner, he will simply act like a the conservative concern troll he is.
not at all unique to obama's campaign. bush campaign staff had people escorted out and arrested for wearing anti-bush t-shirts. and mccain has done the same (http://www.denverpost.com/newsheadlines/ci_9844803):
... ...Must be nice to be that rich. Most people don't have the option to get whatever plan that they'd want for their families without a business providing it for them. At which point, we're back to square one. Let's face it, 90% of the people in this country don't have the any real choice in their health care outside of which primary doctor to see.
Here is McCain's page on health care.
Here is Obama's.
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