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I'm a huge supporter of the police myself, but he's got a right to express his opinion. I hope it's not because of that.
Those opinions, if they were venomous enough, may have gotten the attention of the moderators. My experience, though, is that arguing with the moderators, especially taking your grievances public (which is specifically stated as a violation, in the rules) is what finally gets them banned.
Those opinions, if they were venomous enough, may have gotten the attention of the moderators. My experience, though, is that arguing with the moderators, especially taking your grievances public (which is specifically stated as a violation, in the rules) is what finally gets them banned.
They weren’t venomous at all IMO. He just had very strong opinions on what freedom and living in a free country means or should mean, and felt policing as it is done in this country was generally contrary to that ideal. He was a staunch libertarian, and expressed views through that viewpoint. He blamed the laws more so than the police, but blamed the police for carrying out when he felt were corrupt laws that violated people’s rights as a human being (for instance the freedom to take a drug if you so choose he felt should be up to individual and so believed all drug laws were corrupt (which again is libertarian viewpoint) and so felt cops who enforced corrupt laws were then themselves corrupt.
His posts were very strongly opinionated that is for sure, however he is an intelligent man and they were more than simply rants. I enjoyed his posts even though they made me mad sometimes. And I stopped trying to argue with him along time ago, lol. But I enjoyed reading other people do so. I also agreed with some of his posts.
They weren’t venomous at all IMO.
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His posts were very strongly opinionated that is for sure, however he is an intelligent man and they were more than simply rants.
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Having once worked the moderator side of the system,
I also know it is often the rants you DON'T see that gets them in trouble.
They weren’t venomous at all IMO. He just had very strong opinions on what freedom and living in a free country means or should mean, and felt policing as it is done in this country was generally contrary to that ideal. He was a staunch libertarian, and expressed views through that viewpoint. He blamed the laws more so than the police, but blamed the police for carrying out when he felt were corrupt laws that violated people’s rights as a human being (for instance the freedom to take a drug if you so choose he felt should be up to individual and so believed all drug laws were corrupt (which again is libertarian viewpoint) and so felt cops who enforced corrupt laws were then themselves corrupt.
His posts were very strongly opinionated that is for sure, however he is an intelligent man and they were more than simply rants. I enjoyed his posts even though they made me mad sometimes. And I stopped trying to argue with him along time ago, lol. But I enjoyed reading other people do so. I also agreed with some of his posts.
Actually, he used to crack me up. He was a funny guy.
But you are right. I remember he and I had a long discussion on "rights". He believed that people had "natural rights" or "God given rights".
And I told him that there is nothing "natural" about rights. Nowhere else in the animal kingdom do "rights" exist. It is a human invention, created very recently in human history. And that "rights" are only as good as the entity enforcing them. I wasn't "endowed by my creator" with these rights, no matter what someone wrote on a piece of paper 250 years ago. I was endowed by the government of the United States, our armed forces, and yes, the police. If some murderer is outside my house, trying to get in, God is not going to protect my right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The police are.
Anyway, that was a good discussion. I actually thought he was coming around to my side towards the end. I guess not.
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