Censorship and propaganda have long been tools used to silence the voices of dissidents. Every dictatorship in the history of mankind has used censorship as a tool to rule over the masses. What price do we put on our freedoms? What if any justification can be used to explain why we choose to let government or an organization steal our inalienable rights. We must learn from the past, censorship does not protect our freedoms or insure our safety. Censorship does one thing and one thing only it stifles the voices of dissidents. We need a diverse dichotomy of view points in this world, especially today. What gives one group the right to decide how another should talk, write, hear, read, or what they should listen to? No one on this earth has that right, in my humble opinion.
My labor organization, in which I have served for over 23 years, and loved dearly has turned to censorship. The current leaderships fear of viewpoints that differ from than their own are censored or censured indefinitely. For an organization that was started to protect and further workers rights in the Federal Sector to stoop to censorship is an embarrassment!!! Our profession is a very difficult tight knit group, that sometimes eats it's young. We are a group of type "A" personalities personified. We work hard and we play hard, but we never in the past have ever thrown a Brother or Sister under the bus until this leadership took over. It's like some Bush mentality on labor and human rights were morphed into our Unions leadership.
Our former past President has been banned for life from the bulletin board he helped create. Why I ask? Does the current President fear freedom of speech written or spoken by it's membership? Or is he just a vindictive, unskilled, weak little man, with a Napoleon complex as big as his ego? I really don't know the answer to those questions. What I do know is, a labor organization that calls you a Brother with one breath, and then curses your name with the next, is no labor organization I really need to be a part of. I am deeply saddened by these events.
I believe with all my being that freedom of speech is one of the most important rights we all should hold so very dear in our hearts. To have it trampled by an organization that was founded on protecting those rights of it's members is unconscionable.
If you think your feeble attempt to censure my voice for life from our BBS will ever work, then my former friends you are sadly mistaken.
Angry Fokker
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