How afraid should DU be that the MSM and RW are reading our posts?

[HamdenRice]

I ask because I think a very interesting and very legitimate thread has been deleted by the moderators, and as they have not responded in the Ask the Administrators forum, I can only guess the reason is that it would be embarrasing if the MSM highlighted it. The topic was "Is it wrong to hope that Bush loses in Iraq?"

It seems to me that if we cannot speculate about the role of foreign liberation movements perhaps helping us advance the cause of preserving our democratic republic at home, and preventing our republic's metastasis into an empire, then basically Martin Luther King, Big Bill Haywood, Mother Jones, Mohatma Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X, Eugene V. Debbs, Emma Goldman, Jack Reed and many, many more heros of the non-violent, democratic left would not have been able to post to DU in their prime (if it had been available back then) because of concern about what the mainstream might have thought -- because all of them at one time speculated on whether adverse events overseas -- adverse to the establishment, that is -- might positively effect their own peoples' struggle for democracy.

[johncoby2]

1. I'm so scared I can't pee in my pants.

[Moderator]

2. Locking.

Please be patient; an Administrator will answer the thread in Ask the administrators. All questions regarding DU policies must be asked in ATA. Thank you for understanding.