Was there some part of the post that has been edited out since the ban? From what I see, all he did was use hyperbole, (albeit wild hyperbole,) to describe the actions of security at the RNC. Who does the, “we” in your post refer to?

Also, while the metaphor is heavy handed, In “Expelled”, Ben Stein drew a connection between Intelligent Design dissidents and Nazi Germany. Does he have a standing ban from the site as well until he apologizes for his heavy handed analogy?

Finally, why are you silencing profg? Let him/her speak. If he/she’s a Ronulan, (which he/she never actually indicates,) or whatever you guys call them and all Ronulans are idiots, then people will tire of the idiocy and ignore him/her anyway. By banning them, you take away their ability to respond and turned what could have been an intelligent exchange into an admin censoring posts for uniformity.

is acting like KGB in one specific way is not equating that someone with all of the KGB’s actions. It’s hyberbole, and common hyperbole at that. If I had a quarter for every time someone compared anythying to Hitler, or the KGB, etc….

First of all, thank you Erick for unblocking my account.

Second, I will say this in the most respectful way it can be said: I was blocked for a comment that anyone else would never have been blocked for.

And the only obvious reason is because I supported Ron Paul in this election, and not the Democrat John McCain.

Please don’t try to deny it. As “liandro” noted below (wow, he didn’t get blocked for it?), “saying that someone is acting like KGB in one specific way is not equating that someone with all of the KGB’s actions. It’s hyperbole, and common hyperbole at that. If I had a quarter for every time someone compared anything to Hitler, or the KGB, etc…”

I made a simple comment about the repressive TACTICS of the RedHats and BlackHats at the RNC, which I experienced first-hand, and I was blocked by someone who obviously refuses to blocked people who use invectives here that are just as bad or worse.

I’m referring to all of the uses of well-recognized insults to people who are mentally handicapped - specifically, the use of the word “retard”. So many posters here simply slap on Ron Paul’s name, and Wheee, they get to insinuate that supporters of Ron Paul are mentally handicapped. You know - retards. Or, as you so love to spew, “Paultards”.

How very respectful of you.

I have been a registered member of RedState since my friend Mike Krempasky first created the site. I have been an active and involved conservative Republican for over 20 years. My comment is even one of the ten that Erick and Patrick selected to encourage everyone to vote up. And because I supported Ron Paul in this election — and NOT because I called the McCain camp on the carpet for their Gestapo-like “security” techniques, which I witnessed first-hand — I was blocked.

Shame.

He may have been one of them.

although there still remain big differences between originalist Justices and living Constitution Justices.

But it is indeed difficult to see how federalism will return in any serious way without three more Justice Thomases on the Court, or without a Republican Party made up mainly of Congressmen like Goode (now gone), Flake, etc.

The FDR interpretation of the Constitution has simply gone too long unopposed.

This doesn’t stop me from continuing to work for the return of federalism, even if I think there is little chance of it. Even a small step in that direction is worthwhile.

But it kept melting in my pocket and making a mess. I think I’ll stick to fiat money for now.

Just because this is a conservative/Republican site doesn’t mean stupid ideas need to be discussed.

I treat this kind of stupidity with the same deference I give to discussions of Flat Earth theories.

Let’s assume that everything you say is true. First, the proposal is unconstitutional on its face as the Constitution gives Congress the exclusive power to produce currency. You may call it “fiat money” the rest of us call it “money.”

Nothing prevents you from either hoarding commodities or bartering said commodities for goods and services.

You apparently are really unclear on the difference between money and money supply.

The idea that only the Fed can increase the money supply is simply stupid. If one looks back in history to the 1880s you’ll find the money supply was increased by the opening of sliver mines in the west. In fact, every day on Wall Street the money supply changes as a function of stock prices.

So no, I don’t intend to see this kind of idiocy debated here.