If a person has only been here a short time, I give a lot less leeway with regard to their comments. If someone has been here ten years, it means they have conducted themselves a certain way over that period of time, so that they didn’t get booted.
They’ve weathered the infighting, the various factional blowouts that have taken place, and have contributed reasoned comments for that period of time.
For that reason, I wasn’t inclined to go for the throat of Beckett. That may or may not make sense to you, but I wanted you to know there was an additional thought process going on beyond what I had already mentioned
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I agree completely. If you look back at my response to beckett, I don't believe that you will find that I "went for his throat", nor do I believe that Lauren and I hoped that you would.
I must say that I was quite shocked at the post to which I responded, particularly since beckett is such a long term member of FR.
I want to thank you for your thoughtful and kind posts to this thread.
Thank you Trisham. I appreciate the thoughtful reply.
I make comments to a lot of topics on this forum. I will enter a thread and relate my view on the subject matter. From then on, I pretty much leave after reading a few of the other opinions. If something catches my eye, I make comment on it.
I have not read every post on this thread. If I did read every post on this thread and others, I would quickly limit my ability to address a wide variety of subjects.
I didn’t care for Beckett being charged to ‘go back to D.U.’ It just didn’t sit well with me, to see a person who has been here a decade, treated like that, even if I didn’t agree with his overall comments or tone on this one topic.
We try to get people attracted to this forum. The more the merrier. Beckett may be excellent when it comes to Constitutional issues, or other topics we can agree on. I’m not going to trash him and banish him for all time.
I think he’s out to lunch on Palin. Okay so he is. That doesn’t make him the devil. And that’s pretty much what I tried to convey.
Take care.