Censorship, The Committee of Three and a Warning from the Past.

As if the stress and strain of a bare-knuckled brawl between the Senators Clinton and Obama was not enough to stress a progressive out a new and truly deadly danger to Left Blogistan, the progressive blogosphere, has emerged. Bush wiretaps you ask? Well, they are ongoing but it’s something much closer to hand. Well, then another assault on Net Neutrality then? Nope, the Telcos are lying low looking for another chance to get off the hook and with what’s going on in the Bush-engineered market they might be busy just staying in business.

No folks, what’s going wrong, really wrong, in Left Blogistan is censorship and more than just censorship. In a repeat of what sent the so-called ‘New Left’ into oblivion and left Richard M. Nixon a free hand in ‘Nam certain A-List bloggers have decided that if you do not support their choice for President…well, you should just STFU! That is, their judgment is what’s important; not yours. What’s this you yell? You thought we were all progressives working together to push back the ReichWing conspiracy to stifle dissent? Well you are wrong.

If you oppose Senator Obama’s campaign and seek to say so on certain ‘progressive’ web sites the following may happen: You will be rat-packed and troll-rated into oblivion, attempts may be made to discover your ‘true’ identity so that your boss, friends and other members of your circle can be pressured by Obama supporters, yes this has happened, you may have your ability to rate other commenter’s in the threads removed, and finally should you persist you will be denied access to the site. Banned if you will. For you see you have no ‘rights’ to ‘free speech’ on any site. The site owner can pretty much do as they like as I have been repeatedly told by same. Let me be clear this isn’t about me. I can be outspoken but the worst of what I’ve ever said in terms of ad hominem attacks on others, profanity, general surliness pales in comparison to the average commenter in the average thread about Clinton and dKos. If you don’t believe me…go look.