So I’m checking my email yesterday afternoon when I came across a petition from, “my friends” at the Daily Kos, Mr. Markos Moulitsas website. It was a petition to my United States Senator and Majority Leader of that Governing body, Mitch McConnell, concerning hearings and Up or Down votes in the United States Senate for Federal Judge Merrick B. Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court. .
Naturally I signed it, and followed up accordingly with Mr. McConnell’s office to let them know that I added my name to the Daily Kos petition about Judge Garland, as I happen to believe very strongly in and support hearings for him as well as a fair Up or Down vote for Judge Garland in the United States Senate. In my email to the Senator I respectfully reminded him of famed Pacific rim Allied Commander during World War 2, General Douglas MacArthur’s, epic words in his infamous Duty, Honor, Country speech before cadets at the United States Military Academy, at West Point, in 1962.
“As Americans, as Soldiers for the United States of America – of which you will be soon enough – we all have a first, best duty to the preservation and perseverance of freedom which all Americans, and free people everywhere, enjoy…” – Gen. Douglas MacArthur
In any case I have an account with Daily Kos and so I logged in to it because I wanted to do a blog posting on their about the petition and to comment on and share out this article from a fellow blogger there that caught my attention.
The article troubled me because of an ongoing similar legal situation. I tried to dutifully share the article out and around on social media thereby doing my part to advance the agenda in terms of discussing, civilly, the issue more broadly with a wide variety of concerned citizenry, but I found that I was unable to do any of that.
So I go to my account there because for some months prior I’d been having some trouble with posting/blogging or, as they call it, “posting a diary about a relevant story, issue or [personal] concern of yours for the rest of the world to see…”
I found that I was unable to do anything from my account anymore in terms of posting/blogging, liking or following any fellow Kos Bloggers, etc. Nothing.
Initially, I didn’t think anything of it, because of some technical difficulties there before I ignored it and made numerous attempts to blog and share both the article I mentioned earlier and the Garland petition to Senator McConnell. Nothing.
In times before technical support was kind and attentive enough to resolve them and we moved on. That was until yesterday, when I found out that I had been, “banned from the site” and that I, “no longer have an account” from someone going by the handle: indycam [on Daily Kos].
“Wait. What? I’ve been banned?! I’ve never been banned from anything before in my life.” I thought to my self.
As with anything though there is a reason. The Reason: This blog post I did on 02/23/16 after a CNN hosted Democratic Town hall in Columbia, SC. USA.
I felt, then as now, that the political deck has been stacked against my guy Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and his 2016 bid to become the Democratic nominee for the presidency of the United States of America.
I made no bones about it.There or HERE. I am a LIBERAL “small d,” democrat who supports Bernie Sanders for President of the United States of America in 2016.
Daily Kos, Markos Moulitsas and the so-called “Political Establishment” know this. And because they do they see this as a threat to their political way of life. And have banned my right of free speech, free expression on Daily Kos.
It would be one thing if I had it coming, said or even did something that was afoul of our political process here in America. Thereby ruining or spoiling it for us all. But all I’ve ever done, will do, is to tell the truth. But if I didn’t tell the truth about Hillary Rodham Clinton or anyone else for that matter then by all means, Markos & Company, BAN ME just like Great Britain did talk radio maven Dr. Michael Savage some years ago.
But and instead Mr. Moulitsas and the keepers of the Hillary Clinton flame over in Kos Land ban me because someone somewhere got offended by the truth, offended by free speech and its free exercise thereof.
I read somewhere once that another human being became offended at the truth and he did this (amongst other horribly disgusting things):
–Rhett.
Say What News?! 