"samsloan" wrote in message
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3. I am a candidate for election. Candidates for election should not
be suspended from posting for any reason.

I for one, disagree. Candidates who cannot differentiate freedom from
licence should not speak at all!

In this instance it would have been appropriate to have noted Hall's
[purported] absenses from the workplace as a concern to getting work done
[and I presume, to directing other work].

As Rob Mitchell has pointed out, Sam Sloan's posts are way-over the top, and
include details of [purported] medical conditions, which is simply against
the current law!

If a candidate posts
something false or in bad taste, it is up to his opponents or to the
general membership to refute it.

And I suppose the way to 'refute' what is illegal is to sue.

But beyond answering Sam Sloan in his own terms, it is not enough to
'refute' it, if Sam Sloan is oblivious to his error or excessiveness.

In that case 'refutation' has to be some other sanction that having to prove
to Sam Sloan that he is in error, since he does not even acknowledge that
others think he is! Blaming the [admittedly, pathetically biased and inane
political-appointee hacks who act as] moderators, is simply not to own his
own part. These are simply two similar factions in conflict, neither of
which can seem to conduct a civil conversation.

Meanwhile, personalities overt and under-cover proxy ones, compete for the
election - and what we don't get to read about is managing the enterprise
known as USCF, and while the national championship is now the Frank Berry
Championship, as Rob Mitchell again points out, there is a danger of USCF
becoming the BillHallCF as default property in a lawsuit.

Both moderators [ROFL] and offender are guilty of the same nonsense -
literaly being not response-able to more sober judgement, and in the usual
election power-play, freedom of speech is sharply divided from responsible
speech, which is the real victim here.

Phil Innes
Vermont

It simply cannot be allowed that
members of the board who oppose a certain candidate can use their own
hand-picked stooges to suspend a candidate from posting.

As this matter concerns the election campaign that is going on right
now, I request that this appeal be heard on an expedited basis.

Sam Sloan