[Jota]

Thanks for welcoming me, but although I'm sometimes called "FReeper" -which seems to be a term of abuse by some "Lefties", I don't see myself posting here. Although in The Guardian I am considered a Rightwinger (I am an anti-Castro Cuban exile who supports Israel -perhaps more than I oppose Castro-) I am an ex-communist who is certainly on the Left.

There's this myth in The Guardian fora re: censorship to any leftwing POV in this forum... Is that true? I don't really know anything about FR, I just came here out of curiousity but I wonder if you guys are more like a club than a debating space. In any case, you can't be worst than DU...

I'm back to The Guardian. See you there?

[TaxRelief]

Not a myth. If you post in linkable facts, eschew namecalling, and focus on verifiable, unemotional logic, then you will not be banned.

For example:

If you post: "President Bush sucks." That would be inciteful and you would be straight out the door.

If you said: "President Bush should have vetoed the campaign finance reform act because..." and then justified your opinion, you would still be able to stick around. (Unless of course you start pushing communism.)

In other words, stupid, opinion-only-posting, name-calling trolls get thrown out almost as soon as they take their first FRee breath. We simply do not have time to argue with opinionated, brainwashed, ideaological twits who are puppets of the socialist movement.

Have you read anything by Whittaker Chambers, Frank S. Meyer, or James Burnham? (Good conservative minds who are also excommunists.) They are actually responsible for a good deal of the launch of the conservative movement in the 50's and 60's.