MyDD Lacking DueDiligence. Advice: Dems should Practice dem Free Speech!

Well there they go again. The Regressives in Progressive clothing have struck again. Despite the fact that the Democratic party-aligned (and somewhat Howard Dean related) MyDD (MyDueDiligence) claims to be Progressive, one of its owners, Chris Bowers seems to have trouble with the idea of free speech. So much for the "Progressive" ideals. Howard Dean seems quite forward thinking to me, but some of his followers -- not so much.

What triggered Mr. Bowers locking of my account? My story about how Greens perform a positive service towards the Democrats in the political biosphere. Gee we can't have anything positive said about a miniscule third party now can we? We'll have to lock that account immediately and toss the key!

To see earlier examples of Chris Bowers' abuse of his power see the comment section on this diary entry where I proclaimed Democrat John Kerry's victory in the 2004 election and this entry where I called for impeaching Bush and Cheney

In the comment section you can also see the inarticulate drunken ramblings of an individual with the handle "NCDem". That entry is a perfect illustration of exactly how corrupt the Dems have allowed themselves to become. If MyDD were run by just individuals it would be THAT KIND OF ABUSE that would be banned, not people with alternative opinions.

I liked the constructive comment made by Strrbr:

Greens need to turn from a political party (none / 0)
Into a series of think tanks/media companies.

Unfortunately I can't even respond to her/him and agree, disagree or thank them.

And so it goes. Such is the state of Progressivism in America. And then Chris Bowers wonders that Progressive Blogs Not Breaking Through To Mainstream Media My suggestion: Democrats start by actually practicing democracy and respecting fellow Progressives. What a concept!

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.

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

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.

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

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