Banned from Berg's Blog...I Think

A commenter below asked if I was the same 'Loren' who posted on Phil Berg's obamacrimes.us website a few weeks back. Indeed I am. Why did I stop posting there? Simple: because, without explanation, they stopped me.

On December 17, I made my last post on the site. It's still there, and it's rather simple:

The Tribe/Olson Memo
written by Loren, December 17, 2008

McCain redux
written by Jeff Williams, December 17, 2008
Here's an interesting article on the debate over McCain's eligibility: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07...ccain.html

Laurence Tribe's memo has apparently never been released, which is too bad -- it would interesting to know what his actual analysis was and what weight they gave which factors.

Well, I found it, though it took a bit of effort.
http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/files/tribe_olson_opinion.pdf

Nothing special or inflammatory. The next day, December 18, I attempted to post a response to another post (one poster, 'Jimmy the C', even asked for me to post: "I wish Allison or Loren would check in. I need to freshen up my debate skills."), and I found that my account no longer worked. No one on the board reported that I had been banned, and I didn't receive an email or other notice saying I'd been banned, and frankly, I hadn't done anything to get banned. So I was a bit mystified.

A day or two later, I attempted to create a new account (the unsubtle 'LorenC'), and it worked. I didn't proceed to post anything, though, and by the time I attempted to post, I found that that account had been disabled too. I finally wrote the webmaster an email asking about my status, and I didn't hear back.

So presumably, I've been banned from Phil Berg's site. I don't know why. If I had to guess, I'd fathom that someone was unhappy with my series of posts just prior to the Tribe/Olson one, where I went through Berg's August Complaint and pointed out what evidence had and hadn't been publicly produced (I'll be reproducing those posts here soon).

But one big nagging aspect of this is that in the weeks since, as far as I can tell, it's never been announced that I was banned. When a frequent poster named 'greatkim' was banned, the board was informed of it. When a frequent poster named 'allison' was banned, it was not only announced, but the board was provided with an explanation of WHY she was banned. As far as I can tell, the board has never been informed why I was banned, or even informed that I was banned at all. I was, for lack of a better term, simply 'disappered,' and posters were permitted to assume that I'd voluntarily quit posting.

So, barring further evidence, it certainly seems that someone over at obamacrimes.us not only wanted to keep me from posting there anymore, but they didn't want anybody to know that they'd silenced me. And hey, it's their board...they're not obligated to allow me to post, and if they were troubled by my posts pointing out the gaping holes in Berg's claims, then they're certainly free to keep me from exposing him on their own site.

Fortunately, they can't silence me everywhere, so rather than make me shut up, they inspired me to create this blog, and hopefully reach even more people. In a roundabout way, perhaps I should thank them.

And if anyone who happens to read this also happens to still post over at Berg's site, I wouldn't complain if you shared what's become of me.

Does Orly Taitz Censor Her Comments?

Once Orly Taitz made her second misinformed post about Charles Payne, I took the opportunity to post the first comment in the thread, linking to the article she was citing and disproving what she claimed it said. I posted the following:

Do I have any newspaper articles from October 21-22? Yes. I have the exact Seattle Times article you (and Buelah) are referencing:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008295093_campgrandmother22.html

IT DOESN'T SAY THAT CHARLES PAYNE DIED. To the contrary, it has a couple of quotes from Mr. Payne regarding his sister.

So even though you say "The Seattle times ran an article showing Charles Payne, Madelyn Payne Dunham's brother dying Oct 22, 2008," that's completely false. You obviously haven't even looked at the article you're talking about, and yet you're citing it as a source. Heck, you've already made TWO posts about it, without doing even any cursory research or fact-checking.

http://Barackryphal.com

It's harsh, I know. But it's completely true; she clearly hadn't read the article she was relying on. The second post in the thread was something of a response to mine, saying that if he's alive, then he can be contacted.

So I went to supper, and when I got home, both my comment and the second comment have disappeared. If I didn't know better, I'd say Ms. Taitz was censoring her comment threads.

To test this theory, I reposted my comment, and this time, I took a screenshot for good measure:



Now to sit back and see if this comment disappears too.