The Penguin
triple secret probation
- Location
- down by the river
I'm definately not taking SBT's side - cause I was banned several months agoLibel case "by" SBT ?
More likley case brought against them for 1st amendment free speech and civil rights violations. There is also the copyright issues of several members requesting their copy and images be removed. SBT's Admin has claimed it all now belongs to them and are refusing to remove it.
I myself have asked in writting for an explanation of why I was not given any warning and was banned permanently and without explanation. I was under the impression from reading one of SBT's Admin's own post that for a first offense you got a temporary ban and then permanent after later problems. I recieved no such "time out".
SBT may own that site but the rights guarenteed us by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights come way before the personal agenda of a small site's admin.
Before someone jumps in here and misconstrues this as a threat or libelous statement towards SBT, let me say this . . . . these are the observations of a private American citizen who knows what his rights are and has been down the road before on issues of First amendment rights.
I have no current intentions to persue this as a legal matter personally at this time, but there may be those who will . . . . . and rightfully so.
I personally believe that laws may have been broken and rights may have been violated . . . . . .that is JMO.
As far as the shirts go . . . . I kinda like:
"Banned" of Brothers Victim of the Bloody Monday Purge . . . . .
but it is a privately owned forum - therefore they have the right to allow or not allow whatever the hell they want to be posted on thier site.
YOU need to go and read the Bill of Rights again:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."