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To: aladin who wrote (82522)	3/16/2003 11:45:47 AM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Ah, you "assumed" I had posted "outrageous stuff". I.e. , you made it up. I don't really know why I was banned; I didn't ask and Ken never chose to volunteer an explanation. I was irritated enough about the whole thing that I was happy to leave, and I still get irritated looking back at it. I assume that, as I stated, it was because of calling the people cheering for war to break out "war cheerleaders". You can call that outrageous stuff if you want , it was certainly "outrageous" enough to get the unreflectively sanctimonious paul_philp to call me a "self righteous SOB" while he was publicly lobbying to get me banned. If you want to see the gory details of that little episode, you can work forward and back from #reply-18271669 , my assumption is that Paul was successful in his lobbying effort, but who knows? Strangely enough, you were oddly proximate to that episode too, #reply-18270097 . And I don't actually have anything personal against paul_philp, I take his apology at face value. But he does seem to exemplify, like Nadine and her "sneering" arbitration, LindyBill and his "antisemitic" crapology, and you and your whinage about moderation that set off this exchange, the strangely one sided view of insultology that prevails among the right here. You guys sure can dish it out, but if anything ever comes back at you, it's just not fair. Whatever. You guys just oughta lay off Ken. OK?