Beware The Liberal Mind Police

I can't even believe I typed that as a title to a blog entry.

I can't even believe what happened today.

I've been banned from a message board because someone there read my earlier blog entry and decided they knew exactly what and who I was talking about, that I was being mean to someone there, and should thus not be permitted to visit said message board. No one contacted me to even try to find out if I meant what they thought I meant. There is no rule in their guidelines of which I am aware that says you must follow their rules not only when on their board but apparently everywhere. Nonetheless, I am banned.

Talk about your mind police. Welcome to Big Brother and 1984, gang!

So, since I'm going to be prosecuted, tried, and convicted on hearsay and mind reading, I'm now going to come clean and start actually naming names so that we can at least be clear about whom I talking about when.

First and foremost, let's be clear. The message board is called CircleOf. As I understood it when I was first invited to join, it was created in reaction to perceived political biases and censorship of opinions on RealityTVWorld that led to several liberal posters being banned for violating the guidelines of the board, often during heated political discussions. Other posters were invited along and I was invited by someone, I don't really remember who. I knew and liked several of the banned posters and sympathized. I have (or, at least, thought I had) similar political convictions. I didn't spend as much time there as I do on RTVW, but I usually enjoyed myself there.

But then I once made a couple of snarky remarks about the Steelers and pizza. I even blogged about how shocked I was about the reaction of one particular poster regarding my football and team and my city in addition to said pizza opinion. Said poster then went on a real screed against me. In a way that was truly mentally and emotionally unhinged, considering the relative importance of football and pizza in the world. For that person, it went beyond the sports/pizza and pretty much tainted anything I said in any thread in which we both posted. If you're interested, the crazed poster is True. She doesn't like me. I really don't care about her. I'm not sure why we just couldn't keep it at that. I wrote about it here and that was the end of it for me. I just stayed away from the bitch after that.

Two times there, Landru (one of the "moderators") warned me to be nice. I assumed (but I was apparently wrong) both times that I got the warnings they were in reaction to my replies to some of the insults that were being slung at my football team (which, incidentally, had just won the Super Bowl to almost the entire board's chagrin) and my city. My reaction to those warnings was to stay away from the sports forums there altogether. And to never reply to a thread begun by True and to never post a reply to any of her posts. I thought that settled it.

Well, apparently I was wrong. Seems that, because some of the people on CircleOf read my blog, my entry about my little dust up with True was remembered. And, for some completely unknown reason, I can only assume that today's banning stems from that. I am unclear as to why anyone assumes that my little riff on karma has anything to do with someone to whom I pay no attention to and whom I care absolutely nothing about, but the powers that be at CircleOf have decided it does.

Anyway, just to clarify for those of you who may be wondering at this point? Karma hit my ex-best friend who was one of the women having an affair with X. She has been fired from her six-figure VP position and may be prosecuted for Medicare fraud. I don't give a flying fuck if I can't post at CircleOf if this is the reward.