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The so-called Progressive, whom I say should rather be called a "Regressive" "kos" from dailyKos.com censored/locked my JamBoi AND JamBoi2 accounts so I started this one.

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Monday, February 28, 2005

Election Fraud Isn't the Crime; Publicizing It Is

If you had any doubt "Moderate" Democrats approve of Election Fraud or are at very least Election Fraud Surrender Monkeys, just take a look at my diaries at dailykos.com/user/JamBoi dailykos.com/user/JamBoi2 and tell me why else did dailyKos's Markos ("kos") lock my account not once but twice! kos went so far as to take the phrase that I had come up with and publicized on DU to describe these criminals -- Fraudsters, and used it against those of us who are working to uncover the fraud!!! And then go to DUBoothill.blogspot.com and read how not just me, but numerous other progressives that have been thrown off DemocraticUnderground.com by DemocraticUnderground's David Allen ("Skinner") appearently for nothing more than uncovering Election Fraud! Unbelievable! Clearly Election Fraud is A-Okay with kos and Skinner, but publicizing Election Fraud is verboten!

Dem Election Fraud Surrender Monkeys!

Love that apt phrase! Along with "Fainthearted Faction" it describes all too accurately way too much of the Democratic Party. What is up with this? Do the Dems have a deal with the NeoFascists among the Repubs ("Okay we'll take this election, but if you don't say anything we'll give you the next one"???) That would be TREACHERY AGAINST THE U.S. CONSTITUTION!!! HELLO!!! TREACHERY IS A CAPITAL OFFENSE!!! HELLO!!! AMERICA WAKE UP!!!

If they are thinking along those lines they are just kidding themselves if they think the NeoFascists will give them the nod next time. Maybe they did with Clinton in the past, but do you REALLY THINK the NeoFascists are in the mood to back away AT ALL now??? NO I DON'T THINK SO! This is no game people. This is Germany, 1932-33 just before the suspension of the constitution!

ELECTION FRAUDSTERS ARE TRAITORS AND TERRORISTS WE NEED TO HUNT THEM DOWN AND PROSECUTE THEM LIKE AL QUEDA (without torturing them thankyou) IF NEOFASCISTS CAN RIG OUR ELECTIONS, WHY CAN'T AL QUEDA???? Maybe they did already.

Sunday, February 27, 2005

U.S. Leads "Hated League"; U.S. "loathed, hated, and despised throughout the world": UK Author

New Flash! Clare Short contributor to "Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense:Restoring America's Promise at Home and Abroad" spoke on a recent C-SPAN2 BookTV panel and made the statements "The U.S. leads the Hated League", and the U.S. is "loathed, hated, and despised throughout the world". Thank you Clare! Wake up America!!!

Fitrakis Amazed dailyKos Fainthearted Faction Enforcers!

I spoke with Bob Fitrakis on Saturday at the Election Rigging 101, National Teach-In and he was quite suprised to hear that kos doesn't want to hear that Kerry Won: 900 Pages of Evidence Filed re: OH Fraud '04 and has gone as far as actually locking my account at dailyKos not once, but twice! Amazing! Crazy! JamBoi has become a political dissident in the land of kos!

Bob Fitrakis couldn't believe it initially, but the evidence is clear and persistent that the Dems don't want to deal with their "Election Rigging" problem (along the lines of America's "torture problem"). The Democractic Party in the U.S. has become complicit aiders and abetters to the most shocking crimes against democracy in the history of the world! JamBoi and the Fiercehearted Faction will not stand by while the kos and his Fainthearted Faction tries to block the truth coming out. If the Democratic Party will not work to reintroduce democracy to America we will sweep them aside too.

Step aside Fainthearted Ones and the Fiercehearted will proceed to impeach the chimp!

JamBoi

OHIO’S ODD NUMBERS by Christopher Hitchens


Vanity Fair
March 2005

OHIO’S ODD NUMBERS

BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

If it were not for Kenyon College, I might have missed, or skipped, the
whole controversy. The place is a visiting lecturer’s dream, or the
ideal of a campus-movie director in search of a setting. It is situated
in wooded Ohio hills, in the small town of Gambier, about an hour’s
drive from Columbus. its literary magazine, The Kenyon Review, was
founded by John Crowe Ransom in 1939. Its alumni include Paul Newman,
E. L. Doctorow, Jonathan Winters; Robert Lowell, Chief Justice William
Rehnquist, and President Rutherford B. Hayes. The college’s origins are
Episcopalian, its students well mannered and well off and predominantly
white, but it is by no means Bush-Cheney territory. Arriving to speak
there a few days after the presidential election, I found that the
place was still buzzing. Here’s what happened in Gambier, Ohio, on
decision day 2004.

The polls opened at 6:30 AM. There were only two voting machines
(push-button direct-recording electronic systems) for the entire town
of 2,200 (with students). The mayor, Kirk Emmert, had called the Board
of Elections 10 days earlier, saying that the number of registered
voters would require more than that. (He knew, as did many others, that
hundreds of students had asked to register in Ohio because it was a
critical “swing” state.) The mayor’s request was denied. Indeed,
instead of there being extra capacity on Election Day, one of the only
two machines chose to break down before lunchtime.

By the time the polls officially closed, at 7:30 that evening, the line
of those waiting to vote was still way outside the Community Center and
well into the parking lot. A federal judge thereupon ordered Knox
County, in which Gambier is located, to comply with Ohio law, which
grants the right to vote to those who have shown up in time. “Authority
to Vote” cards were kindly distributed to those on line (voting is a
right, not a privilege), but those on line needed more than that. By
the time the 1,175 voters in the precinct had all cast their ballots,
it was almost four in the morning, and many had had to wait for up to
11 hours. In the spirit of democratic carnival, pizzas and canned
drinks and guitarists were on hand to improve the shining moment. TV
crews showed up, and the young Americans all acted as if they had been
cast by Frank Capra: cheerful and good-humored, letting older voters
get to the front, catching up on laptop essays, many voting for the
first time and all convinced that a long and cold wait was a small
price to pay. Typical was Pippa White, who said that “even after eight
hours and 15 minutes I still had energy. It lets you know how worth it
this is.” Heartwarming, until you think about it.

The students of Kenyon had one advantage, and they made one mistake.
Their advantage was that their president, S. Georgia Nugent, told them
that they could be excused from class for voting. Their mistake was to
reject the paper ballots that were offered to them late in the evening,
after attorneys from the Ohio Democratic Party had filed suit to speed
up the voting process in this way. The ballots were being handed out
(later to be counted by machine under the supervision of Knox County’s
Democratic and Republican chairs) when someone yelled through the
window of the Community Center, “Don’t use the paper ballots! The
Republicans are going to appeal it and it won’t count!” After that, the
majority chose to stick with the machines.

[ click here for rest of article ]

Saturday, February 26, 2005

"Why Now? Why did we have to wait so long?" re: Kerry and these motions

This reposted from DU

"Why Now? Why did we have to wait so long?" re: Kerry and these motions
Edited on Fri Feb-25-05 07:20 PM by WilliamPitt

You probably caught the new motions Kerry/Edwards filed in Ohio:

http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/2/24/183243/756

The reaction to this I've been seeing a lot of is, "Why Now? Why did we have to wait so long?"

A thing election reformers need to accept and understand is that lawsuits, like legislation, take time. For example, the motion to preserve evidence in this Ohio matter was entered in December. It is now almost March, and the judge has yet to issue a ruling. Such a waiting period is fully and completely out of the hands of the attorneys for Cobb, Badnarik, Kerry and Edwards. Believe me, Arnebeck and Bonifaz are gnawing through their desks in anticipation, but there isn't a damned thing they or we can do but wait.

Did Kerry blow it by conceding too early? Obviously. I've spoken with several of the people who served as poll-watchers on behalf of Kerry in Ohio. The decision to concede was made before these people were debriefed. They were on buses, planes and trains hauling ass home so they could describe what they'd seen to their campaign representatives. That, and that alone, represents an incomprehensible and ultimately terminal blunder.

Now that it is in the courts, however, it is no longer about Kerry or who deserves to be in the Oval this term. It is about winning these cases and setting precedent that cannot be ignored. Winning these cases will take time, how much time being solely at the discretion of the judges and their clerks. That's just the fact.

It isn't about Kerry anymore, and frankly, hasn't been since he conceded. If they win the motion for preservation, they can get forensic examinations of the voting machines, along with sworn deposition testimony from Triad officials, local election officials, and even Mr. Blackwell himself. The importasnce of that cannot be overstated. If voting is to be rescued from privatization and the untested machine, the errors - both human and electronic - must be exposed. This motion, if successful, is a good step in that direction.

Granted, a lot of time has passed and crucial evidence could well have been wiped. But again, that is what happens with lawsuits. Cobb and Badnarik have been at this since early November, and they have been playing the exact same waiting game as the Kerry supporters out there. It isn't about any of these candidates anymore. It's about winning in court. This is the marathon.

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Kerry Won! Key Laywer Bob Fitrakis on OH Fraud '04, Feb 26, Oakland, OVC

Here's the last thing kos allowed me to post at jamboi2.dailykos.com. Do you see anything objectionable here??? Only to the Fainthearted DiNO's who fear their own election fraud will be unmasked.

JamBoi

Kerry Won! Key Laywer Bob Fitrakis on OH Fraud '04, Feb 26, Oakland, OVC by JamBoi2
Fri Feb 18th, 2005 at 18:52:45 PST
BOB FITRAKIS TO SPEAK ON ELECTION RIGGING AND HOW TO STOP IT
HE SHOULD KNOW! HE'S BEEN HIP-DEEP IN FIGHTING THE ELECTION RIGGING IN OHIO '04 THAT FRAUDULENTLY GAVE BUSH THE U.S. PRESIDENCY! COME HEAR THE PROOF FOR YOURSELF AND WHERE WE GO FROM HERE!

NATIONAL TEACH-IN: "STOP ELECTION RIGGING NOW!"

The Open Voting Consortium is sponsoring a National Teach-In: "STOP ELECTION RIGGING NOW!", Feb. 26 In Oakland CA.  Bob Fitrakis who is one of the plaintiffs (along with Cliff Arnebeck) in the Bush v Moss case to overturn the fraudulent US '04 National Election will be speaking.  See my diary: Kerry Won: 900 Pages of Evidence Filed re: OH Fraud '04 for info on the spectacular filing yesterday in this litigation series.

Here's two snippets:

"...The attorneys in this case had reason to believe that the election results did not reflect the will of the electorate."


and

"In filings that include well over 1,000 pages of critical documentation, attorneys Robert Fitrakis, Susan Truitt, Peter Peckarsky and Cliff Arnebeck have counter-attacked."

Details and more OVC events listed below the fold... Diaries :: JamBoi2's diary :: Details:
National Teach-In: "STOP ELECTION RIGGING NOW!


  • Date: Saturday, February 26
  • Time: 10am-4pm
  • Place: Oakland, First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison St.
  • Website for flyer
  • What: Bob Fitrakis, Ohio attorney and editor, Columbus Free Press; Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange; Larry Bensky, KPFA; Walter Riley, East Bay Votes; Jonathan Simon, Verified Vote; Alan Dechert, Open Voting Consortium; Bob Kibrick, Verified Voting; Election-Related Documentary Footage; Strategy and Action from Blackboxvoting.org, VotersUnite.org, Open Voting Consortium, the MMOB and more


Info from http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/ad/events.htm
Future Open Voting Consortium and Election Reform Events
* Sacramento MoveOn Event-
Voting Reform: Electronic Voting Systems, Pro and Con



  • Date: Sunday, February 20
  • Time: 6-9pm
  • Place: SEUI, 1911 F Street, Sacramento, CA
  • Website for flyer
  • What: Watch movie "Invisible Ballots," hear speeches from CalVoter's Kim Alexander and the Sacramento County Registrar Jill Lavine. Alan Dechert and Lara Shaffer from the Open Voting Consortium will also be there.

    Election Reform Radio show KUSP, Santa Cruz
  • Date: Wednesday, February 23
  • Time: 10:30am
  • Place: Santa Cruz 88.9 FM
  • On the web live at: http://www.kusp.org/live/
  • Contact: Lara Shaffer, 831-419-0758, lara at openvoting dot org
  • What: Lara Shaffer (Open Voting Consortium), Emily Levy (Richard Hayes Philips Project), and others will talk about election reform


National Teach-In on Election Rigging and How to Stop It


  • Date: Saturday, February 26
  • Time: 10am-4pm
  • Place: Oakland, First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison St.
  • Website for flyer
  • What: Bob Fitrakis, Ohio attorney and editor, Columbus Free Press; Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange; Larry Bensky, KPFA; Walter Riley, East Bay Votes; Jonathan Simon, Verified Vote; Alan Dechert, Open Voting Consortium; Bob Kibrick, Verified Voting; Election-Related Documentary Footage; Strategy and Action from Blackboxvoting.org, VotersUnite.org, Open Voting Consortium, the MMOB and more


House party for Bob Fitrakis


  • Date: Saturday, February 26
  • Time: evening
  • Place: West Marin (Bolinas)
  • Contact: Megan Matson, matson8 at themmob dot com


Film as Evidence


  • Date: Saturday, February 26
  • Time: 7-10pm
  • Location: Venice United Methodist Church - Sanctuary 1020 Victoria Ave. Venice, CA 90291
  • Website for flyer
  • What: Watch Votergate, Electile Dysfunction, and Standing in the Rain with Jim Crow and meet the directors and producers of all of these movies


Who Got Glitched and How Do We Fix It Teach-In


  • Time: 2-5pm
  • Place: Los Angeles, The Church at Ocean Park (2nd & Hill, S.M.)
  • Website for flyer
  • What: Bob Fitrakis, Ohio attorney and editor, Columbus Free Press; Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange; Butch Wing, Rainbow PUSH Coalition; Bev Harris, Black BoxVoting.org; Hear about voting system solutions from Lara Shaffer, the Open Voting Consortium.


Election Reform and the Open Voting Consortium, Scotts Valley, CA:
Speech for the Northern Democratic Club


  • Date: Tuesday, March 1
  • Time: 6pm (dinner) 7pm-8pm (speech and questions and answers)
  • Location: Scotts Valley, Maya Mexican Restaurant, 3115 Scotts Valley Dr
  • Contact: Chris Finnie, cfinnie at sbcglobal dot net


Community Television show about Election Reform, Santa Cruz CA


  • Time: 7:30pm
  • Location: Public Access Channel 27 in Santa Cruz
  • Contact: Joe Grossman- joseleon@pacbell.net
  • What: Live TV program with Lara Shaffer (Open Voting Consortium), Emily Levy (Richard Hayes Philips Project), and others to talk about election reform


Open Voting Consortium Event


  • Time: March 26, 1-4pm
  • Location: San Jose, CA, (venue TBA)
  • Contact: Drew Johnson, jamboi at yahoo dot com
  • What: Alan Dechert (Open Voting Consortium), Jim March (Black Box Voting.org), Emily Levy (Richard Hayes Philips Project), and others will speak about de-privatizing the voting system in America and other election reform issues.


Also, watch for future Open Voting Consortium events happening soon in:


  • Santa Cruz (at UCSC, Cabrillo, and Seabright)
  • Long Beach
  • Laguna Beach
  • San Diego
  • Oakland
  • Austin

kos Locks Out JamBoi! Again! Again With No Warning Or Justification.

Man this is getting old. These Democrats In Name Only (DiNOs) like Skinner and kos seem to have entirely lost site of the whole free speech "thing." What, first amendment rights??? Here in Amerika??? Naw, not here... Entirely crazy, man.

Thursday, February 17, 2005

Kerry Won: 900 Pages of Evidence Filed re: OH Fraud '04

Here's the work we've been doing coming to fruition! The wheels of justice may turn slowly, but turn they do.  Fav quote: "...The attorneys in this case had reason to believe that the election results did not reflect the will of the electorate."

Departments: Election 2004
Representative Conyers and others file amicus brief in Ohio Supreme Court
by Dena Graziano
February 17, 2005

Today, Congressman John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, will be filing an amicus brief in the Ohio Supreme Court with the support of Senator Russ Feingold and 17 other members of the House of Representatives recommending that the Court not sanction the attorneys who brought Ohio election contest in Moss v. Bush (no.04- 2088). Mr. Conyers offered the following statement:

"The attorneys in this case had reason to believe that the election results did not reflect the will of the electorate. In good faith, they brought a case based not only on statistical probability but the depositions and affidavits of computer experts, statisticians, and election volunteers. In only a couple months, these attorneys have amassed over 900 pages of evidence.

"While we take no opinion on the underlying case, we firmly support the right of citizens to challenge elections results in court when they have a good faith basis to do so. Truly, Secretary Blackwell's attempt to sanction these attorneys is meant to send a message to anyone who dare challenge his questionable election administration. For our democracy to work properly, we can't allow this sort of intimidation by state officials."

Original press release House Judiciary Democrats Press Release

Be Careful What You Sign

A favorite song, apropos to the time that speaks metaphorically of Love and Resurrection in Dangerous Times. Note that LN is entirely non-violent as am I.

Larry Norman - Be Careful What You Sign
from the Album: So Long Ago The Garden (1973)


i was walking down the road when i bumped into you
i was walking down the road when i bumped into you
you stopped me you touched me you look me in the eye
i had a feeling that you knew me i decided you must die
i pulled out my thornton special i shot you in the head
i threw you in the alleyway and left you for dead

then a man with a hat came up from behind
the sky went black and i thought i was blind
he put his hand inside my jacket and left a million dollar bills
he slipped his hands into my pocket and gave me women and thrills
and when i turn around to thank him there was no one there but me
and both my hands were filled with sand i was standing by the sea

we had dinner at eight and women at nine
the party was great till we ran out of wine
there was a knock upon the bedroom door my knees began to shake
and this man came in and melted all the candles on my cake
he said i've come here to escort you it's time for you to go
he open up my body and took away my soul

i was running down the road
i was trying to leave
and i saw you all alone in between the thiefs
and when the lightning flashed i saw somebody hanging from a tree
and as i turned to walk i realized it was me
i pulled out my thornton special i shot me in the head
i threw me in the alleyway and left me for dead
down the road
down the road

Nature abhors a vacuum...

There's that old saying that nature abhors a vacuum. Its amusing to watch the Old School media complain about us bloggers and how we are not properly credentialed, don't adequately check our stories, etc. Essentially when you boil it down their complaint is that we are not part of their guild system and we are not controllable by them. Wah!!!

Tonight's "The Daily Show's" segment defending us bloggers tonight was hilarious. They talked about how folks at dailyKos and another site (who's name I forget) blew out the psuedononymous "Jeff Gannon", male prostitute and White House press corps propaganist ringer for *. They mentioned Atrios.blogpot.com by name. They also had a rapier-like Stephen Colbert report where he pretended to be an Old School journalist lambasting the bloggers. RotFLMAO!

Bloggers might never have become so powerful if the media was actually doing the job of the Fourth Estate and exposing the NeoFascists instead of sitting on their ass. Just goes to show you, nature abhors a vacuum...

Living a nightmare

This letter to the editor in the Los Gatos Daily News, Feb. 10, 2005 from Alan Van Fleet of Redwood City, CA was so moving I'm re-presenting it here. I don't think Alan will mind. It speaks for itself. JamBoi


Living a nightmare
Dear Editor:
I am a veteran of World War II. When I left the Army, I returned to a land of beauty and glory. We had beaten the Nazis in Europe, and the Japanese militarists in the Pacific.
   Everywhere in the world, America was loved and honered. I was proud to be an American.
   Now each day I feel that I am in a horrible nightmare from which I cannot wawake. I can scarely open a newspaper or watch TV. Atrocities and abominations and injustices sprout like evil mushrooms across the earth.
   The media do not tell us enough, not nearly enough, about what is going on, but I know. I am not a "good German" who "did not see" the death of the Jews. I know.
   Where has my land of hopes and dreams gone? What has happened to you, America? Where have you gone?
   O come back....Come back.
Alan Van Fleet
Main Street
Redwood City

Looks like kos is not going to respond.

Well, I've given kos plenty o' time and he continues to leave my dailyKos account locked. Unjustly. That's the way it goes since it being his site he can be as arbitrary, unjust, and pigheaded as he wants to be. Its his right.

What is it with these undemocratic Democrats and regressive "progressives"??? Democrats of the fainthearted faction who are afraid to face the corruption that pervades not only the Republicans, but the Democrats also. They don't seem to realize that in acting regressively they are blocking the positive change they think they are working towards. Hopefully Dean will push aside these DLCers fainthearted ones and fire up the Donkeys. If so maybe I'll consider rejoining.

In kos' favor at least this time he bothered to reply to me once fairly quickly, but not again after that. Ah well, JamBoi says "c'est la vie". Supposedly he is a moderate progressive like me, and hopefully at some point he'll realize he treated me unjustly. Since we actually live relatively closely here in the SF Bay area I'm sure I'll get a chance to meet him sometime at some kind of gathering of progressives.

In the meantime I forge ahead as one of many leaders of the "Fierce-hearted faction" that will not put up with regressive "progressive" nonsense, and will stand and fight the NeoFascists whether they bear the name "Republican", "Democrat", Nazi, "Green" or whatever. Anyone who takes the attitude that "The end justifies the means" is my enemy and I will use all peaceful, non-violent Jesus/Gandhi/MLK-like means to overcome them and will teach others to do likewise. The NeoFascists will not prevail if Jesus' followers will take a stand and fight fire with God's Love.

JamBoi

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Re: kos, why am I locked out again? And again with no warning?

Dear brother Markos,

--- dkos@dailykos.com wrote:

> Dude, you were deleting diaries and reposting them to stay atop the
> recommended diaries. If you didn't know that was wrong, then your
> moral compass is seriously screwed.
>
> At best, your actions showed a complete lack of consideration for
> other posters, and that, in my opinion, is a bannable offense. m

Not guilty. If that were what I had done I might be able to see your
point.

So please give me the time to explain what REALLY happened and share
my point of view.

To begin with its not right to make the kind of assumption you've made
that you know what my motivation for deletion and reposting. I don't
understand why you are not asking me for my reasoning instead of
telling me what you think it is. How can anyone know what is going on
in another's head? Furthermore, to impugn someone's moral character
is really skating out onto thin ice and I'm having a hard time seeing
where you're implying that deleting/reposting is some kind of major
moral/ethical event. I do realize that it does have some (unintended)
side effects on posted comments and position on the RECENT diaries list
(not RECOMMENDED as you charged).

I have never ever done ANYTHING to try to stay atop the
RECOMMENDED diaries as you charge. On that list I just let the chips
fall where they may. If I post something popular, so be it, if not
that's fine. As a matter of fact I took a MAJOR hit for deleting two
extremely popular diaries that Larisa of RawStory demanded I remove
for fear of exposing a witness in the fraudulent Ohio recount. Why
would I do that and piss people off if all I wanted was to do was
be popular? I wouldn't. Now with all that being said, let me explain
what has actually happened now that you've provided me with the rationale
for the locking.

First off it would help to recall that the first several times I EVER
wrote to you were before I ever posted diary entry here AT ALL. John
Dean "Bozos for Bush" had spent several of his first dK diaries making
false accusations against me and by doing so had been instrumental in
getting me banned from DU. I wrote to you several times asking that
you remove the postings. I never to this day got ANY response on that.
What I ended up doing was to convince "Bozos" that he was wrong and he
finally deleted the diaries himself. I formed the conclusion that you
were uninterested in the goings on at your site since I couldn't imagine
that you would be okay with Bozos posting crapola about DU.

Since then you've actually come down on ME for HIM bringing DU stuff
here. Well I quite agree with you that people should leave there stuff
from other sites off dK, but when this hand of discipline is applied so
unevenly and I'd even say unfairly what is the poster to do? It gave
the impression you were at best asleep at the switch. Okay, fast
forward to this Saturday AM:

Secondly Saturday Bozos again was on the warpath vs. me and after he'd
carried on a long thread of crapola about me at BBV and CGCS he posted
a nasty libelous comment on my morning dK diary, which he then started
cross-posting on a second one of my diaries (which I'd really
appreciate if you'd remove since its still littering
http://jamboi.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/26/14716/6631) and on his diary
space at dK (which he's since removed since he realized he was wrong).
I had posted an IMO non-controversial first-person account of a meeting
of the Open Voting Consortium the night before which was pretty much
exactly like the top half of what I reposted at
http://jamboi.mydd.com/story/2005/2/5/161233/5684.

I had not added the actual meeting notes yet (the second half of the
above post) and Bozos had THE ONLY comment on the diary. So when I
was ready to add the meeting notes I decided to delete the diary and
repost. The purpose was NOT to do ANYTHING other than get rid of that
stupid comment of his. I was aware that it would put the post back at
the top of the RECENT diaries, but that was an unintended and unwanted
side effect. The posting wasn't all that popular or highly recommended
to my knowledge, so I don't think there was much effect at all on
RECOMMENDED diaries, though you have much clearer insight into the
dynamics of that from your vantage point than I ever could. My point:
I'VE NEVER DONE ANYTHING TO TRY TO "STAY ATOP THE
RECOMMENDED LIST" AS YOU CHARGED. So please take that back.

As to lack of consideration for other posters, as far as I knew there
was only John's comment on that post and it didn't deserve to stay
there. So where's the beef?

Also I'd really appreciate it if we could hook up and communicate about
things like this BEFORE you take such drastic action so I (or whoever
you're working with) can have a chance to explain my point of view.
Warnings are a beautiful thing brother Markos. Please afford me and
your other posters warning so that we can feel we are being treated in
a democratic way.

So since I am not guilty as charged, I would ask that you unlock my
account. BTW, I live just down the road from you in SJ, so if it would
be more workable on things like this to talk on the phone that would be
find by me too. Just let me know...

Thanks for listening and keep up all the good work you're doing. As
I've said before I really appreciate this facility you provide and the
difference you and by extension our whole dK community is making in our
world. I do not expect perfection at dK, but if we can talk through
misunderstandings like this I believe it only strenghthens the
community and in turn the progressive movement.

Drew Johnson
(AKA JamBoi)

JamBoi previously enquired:

> > And for what?
> >
> > Can't we have warnings? Please tell me what I need to change so
> that
> > I can stay on your good side. These anonymous lock outs really
> aren't
> > good ways to operate the site. If I'm messing up, please let me
> know
> > via e-mail.
> >
> > On Saturday I was notified in comments by Armando about something
> and
> > before I even had a chance to delete the diary as he asked he did
> it.
> > And then he went on to delete several more??? I thought dailyKos
> was
> > about democracy, not mobocracy. I don't believe his actions were
> > justified or fair. For my part I posted a public apology (though I
>
> > don't think I was "guilty" of much more than ignorance of the
> > ultra-strict interpretation of the rules that he used to justify
> his
> > actions). Still my point was nothing more than to participate in
> the
> > community, and if by apologizing it helps things go better, I have
> no
> > problem with that.
> >
> > Btw, I enjoyed hearing you talk on Majority Report. Hope you get
> more
> > opportunities like that to put a "face" on us bloggers. Good
> going!
> >
> > Thanks for listening,
> >
> > JamBoi

Monday, February 07, 2005

kos, why am I locked out again? And again with no warning?

And for what?

Can't we have warnings? Please tell me what I need to change so that I can stay on your good side. These anonymous lock outs really aren't good ways to operate the site. If I'm messing up, please let me know via e-mail.

On Saturday I was notified in comments by Armando about something and before I even had a chance to delete the diary as he asked he did it. And then he went on to delete several more??? I thought dailyKos was about democracy, not mobocracy. I don't believe his actions were justified or fair. For my part I posted a public apology (though I don't think I was "guilty" of much more than ignorance of the ultra-strict interpretation of the rules that he used to justify his actions). Still my point was nothing more than to participate in the community, and if by apologizing it helps things go better, I have no problem with that.

Btw, I enjoyed hearing you talk on Majority Report. Hope you get more opportunities like that to put a "face" on us bloggers. Good going!

Thanks for listening,

JamBoi

Tired of getting locked out. Starting my own. :-)

I got locked out of my JamBoi.DailyKos.com account again. Again with no e-mail from the Admin and no clear indication of what it was about. More censorship. Armando was objecting to what he called a double post I did on Saturday which I apologized for and this lockout is my reward. As I've learned to say these days "no good deed shall go unpunished!". At some point I've gotta say "whatever". If they insist on being petty and censorious, whatever dudes. I'll just keep on truckin' :-)

JamBoi