Reply #53: I don't know if this was an isolated incident or not [View All]

[TeacherCreature]

Does that make it any more acceptable to anyone? I can't believe the number of post from jackbooted DU enforcers trying to shut anyone up who wonders what the hell is going on.

To me the Kerry enforcers showed up here at DU last summer (some of them pretending to support other candidates) and now we have this forced unity where everyone keeps saying "we have never been so unified". Screw that, I have never seen this party less unified. But I can accept the need to project that image to the nation. I don't see any reason for that here at DU. Let people express themselves for goodness sake or this ceases to be a message board. No one is campaigning against Kerry or suggesting we vote en mass for Nader. Stop being such a bunch of debate squelcher's.

Let's be honest. Some people here have drunk the Kool Aide and now we can't even criticize, for instance, the concentration camp like pen that is set up for protesters. I know that the party did not arrange for this, but they should speak up publicly against it. You all know damn well that had these pens been set up for bush protesters you all would be screaming bloody murder. I don't care if they are penning up the descendants of Hitler...it is inexcusable in this country for there to designated free speech zones which look like internment camps and I am glad that protesters have refused to go into that space except to do street theater.

Some days this place seems more like Orwellian underground than Democratic underground and I DO NOT blame the administrators for that. I blame the people so afraid of democracy breaking out in the Democratic Party that they have to shut up anyone who disagrees.

I know the third party folks can be a pain in the ass always looking for some way to complain about the democratic party. However those people at the convention are not Nader delegates, they aren't there supporting Cobb, they are there representing the wishes of DEMOCRATS who voted for their choice of DEMOCRATIC PARTY CANDIDATES. If even a few of them were treated the way they stated then we should all be calling on the party to stop the nonsense.