My reply to a freeper on facebook who was upset that he got booted from Progressive Push..

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You are mistaken sir.

Facebook.com is NOT an open forum for you to say whatever you wish, nor is freedom of speech an unlimited individual right.

You don't have the right to trespass in a private forum. It seems clear to me that your primary interest is in disrupting a private forum with whom you disagree. They don't have any obligation to humor you however sir.

Every group owner is entitled to decide with whom they will or will NOT associate and what message THEIR group is putting forth. You don't have any right to tresspas on THEIR group and THEIR message.

You are certainly free however to create your own group and say whatever you like within the terms of service of facebook.com which ultimately owns the soapbox upon which you wish to stand but even then the owners of facebook have a right to take their soapbox back and show you the door.

Nor does anyone have any obligation to agree with your assertions regarding what is moderate or who is moderate. It seems rather clear to be that you are mistaken in this matter given that Barack Obama and not John McCain was elected in a landslide on November the 4th.

As for who is the arbiter of what is "American" and what is "anti-American"- I would say that anyone who has the nerve to go around labeling others in this manner is the real "anti-American".

How DARE you say progressive "hate" America you arrogant jackass?

SHAME on you.

It is PRECISELY because we love our country and we believe in the Constitution that so many of us have spoken out and fought back and taken back our country from narrow minded people such as yourself.

Nothing is more corrosive to actual democracy than the McCarthyist scapegoating such as that in which you choose to engage.

As for the notions that Democrats or Progressives have any interest in suppressing free speech through a return to the "Fairness Doctrine" you need not fear as we do NOT.

What is NEEDED is NOT the Fairness Doctrine but rather a return to local individual ownership of radio and television stations in place of the large corporate chains that serve to homogenize and censor message today.

To summarize: Quit complaining to ME about the fact that you were kicked out of a private group for being a trespasser and nusiance and go form your OWN group or better yet your OWN website. No group is obligated to put up with you and for that matter neither is facebook.com