Ray Gun: Subsequent to this event, I posted some comments regarding Kathy Sims' admitted illegal campaign fundraising and expenditures. They were deleted, some in part, some in their entirety. Apparently the moderators of Opencda did not enjoy seeing a public display of their hypocrisy in defending, excusing and justifying the Campaign Finance law breaking by Kathy Sims, while at the same time becoming apoplectic about Charlie Nipp's transgression of the disclosure rules. (In the drop-down box) is the email, in its entirety, that first notified me that I was banned.

Question: With Ray Gun gone, who's left to try to reason w/Dan & Mary & Bill?

I had posted some comments regarding Mary Souza's tape recording of her conversation with Christie Wood which led to a warning from one of the male moderators (not Mr. McCrory).

(That warning email threatened to permanently ban me from Opencda if I disclosed its contents on another website and I complied with the request to keep it a private communication. However, having been banned anyway, I'm considering reprinting it on multiple local and political blog sites.)

Subsequent to this event, I posted some comments regarding Kathy Sims' admitted illegal campaign fundraising and expenditures. They were deleted, some in part, some in their entirety. Apparently the moderators of Opencda did not enjoy seeing a public display of their hypocrisy in defending, excusing and justifying the Campaign Finance law breaking by Kathy Sims, while at the same time becoming apoplectic about Charlie Nipp's transgression of the disclosure rules. Here is the email, in its entirety, that first notified me that I was banned:

“raygun,

Concerning your submitted posts which you believe were censored:

I did not censor your comments; I censured your misbehavior. We have no control over what you say anywhere but on OpenCda.com. If you feel you are being censored, you have the ability to start your own website or weblog and then post whatever you choose.

But when you’re on OpenCda, you’re nothing more than one of several guests invited to a social event. We encourage invited guests to participate by asking questions and make comments leading to the entertaining and hopefully constructive exchange of ideas.

But every now and again, an invited guest will get out of line like a belligerent drunk at a cocktail party. He will become loud and obnoxious. We will try to calm him down. If we succeed, he is welcome to stay and continue to interact with the other guests. But if he will not refrain from misbehaving, if his misbehavior becomes so much of an annoyance to the other guests that they are no longer enjoying themselves, then we as hosts will ask him to leave. We have not only the right to do that, we have the obligation to do that out of respect for our other invited guests.

You are here only as an invited guest. You have been asked more than once to refrain from objectionable misbehavior, and you have refused. You have become an annoyance to other guests and have contributed nothing to their enjoyment. You have absolutely no right to be here. Do you understand that? Contrary to what you may think, contrary to your careless use of the word “censorship” which implies you are being deprived of some right, you have no right whatsoever to post on OpenCdA.
Please leave and do not try to return.
Thank you.

Bill McCrory”

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