Subj : I think things have gone
To   : MICHAEL GOTHREAU
From : PETER BRADIE
Date : Sat Oct 26 2002 02:38 pm

MG> Hello All,

MG> Wayne Chirnside is a user of Fidonet.

MG> Recently, Wayne got drunk and invited his neighbour and antogonist, Ed 
Koon, to
MG> visit Wayne's home so he could kill him.  Posts to that effect were made in
MG> HOLYSMOKE and in MATZDOBRE.

MG> Ed Koon refused to call the police.  Chirnside removed himself from 
HOLYSMOKE.

MG> Chirnside enterred the POLITICS echo and attempted to have normal 
discussions
MG> there.

MG> Stan Hardegree, a point off of Dale Ross announced that Dale Ross had 
removed
MG> POL_INC from his system because POL_INC did not ban Wayne Chirnside.  Wayne
MG> Chirnside made no threats in POL_INC.  Stan posted his fear that Dale Ross
MG> would remove POLITICS if that echo harboured him.

MG> Now, Gary Braswell has banned Wayne Chirnside from POLITICS, giving NO 
reason.

MG> The reason is Stan Hardegree, and more to the point, Dale Ross.  Who died 
and
MG> made this guy King?

MG> Anyone else feel that this is not good or fair?

MG> IMHO, we should all post our displeasure at this action.

MG> If the victim of the crime, Ed Koon, did not feel the threat was serious 
enough
MG> to cut Wayne out and have him charged, then not one of us has a right to 
judge
MG> him further, until he breaks the rules in one of our echoes.  Am I right?

Looking at it from a purely legal slant, cutting someone from an echo should 
be because they have done wrong in that echo.  Since Wayne removed himself 
from HOLYSMOKE where the bad behaviour occurred, it would be improper to remove 

him from echos where he's behaving himself.

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