This is essentially an alert to Open Salon participants so that you can protect yourselves when you have the audacity to write something that a protected or powerful person doesn't like.  Dissent is not tolerated, and these communities are nothing like what progressives value.

 

The post is from my own blog, Home of the Brave, and that, along with my dormant blog, Universal Health, is where you can find all of my online work.  I've turned comments off here because I am leaving this as a protest piece.  My contact information is found on my own blogs, and commenting is enabled there, where everyone is welcome. My comment history on Salon.com may be found here.

 

Glenn Greenwald also practices the censorship of the contemptuous faux progressive.  From my letter to the Salon.com editor and Greenwald:

I wrote a letter to the editor on Glenn Greenwald's radio column discussing Jane Hamsher, Markos Moulitsas and the SEIU that was critical, yet respectful.  Immediately after publishing it and viewing it in the letters section, it disappeared when I refreshed the screen. I am requesting that it be reinstated, as it clearly meets all of the Salon.com criteria for publication. That act confirms my belief of Mr. Greenwald's contempt for me and others with similar circumstances and viewpoints. Regardless, I believe that he has crossed over the line into baseless censorship.

There was no response to my letter from either Greenwald or the Salon.com editors. Quelle surprise.

[UPDATE]  Right on cue, here's Beth Israel Deaconess monitoring and continuing its blacklisting.  The thugs, Marsha and her HR pal, threatened me outright that I would never work again, and one thing terrorists do is keep their threats. They like to watch and watch and watch (and they take ample time off for their lunches) - just like you. (On my own blog, I published the visit times and blog mining that BIDMC is doing.)

 

 

 

They used me as entertainment porn. A crazy.  A charity case in which the charity was neither charity nor help. When I discovered some of what was being done, I expressed my fear and wrote for them to leave me alone and at least to identify themselves and what they had done.  I was banned by Markos Moulitsas for that - after he himself posted all sorts of identifying information about me in a post that garnered over 1000 comments and in which I was used to drive up his site traffic and his profit.

 

Subsequently I attempted to engage at Firedoglake, which turned out to be another phony progressive website.  

 

I'm a slow learner.  It took me a second assault to finally learn that these people are all about profit, power and control.  They are no different than their right wing counterparts except that they deny that they censor, control and oppress, while the right wing celebrates this.

 

What they really do well is to fundraise for Democrats.  That's their purpose, and they manipulate people well to do it to the point that they can be influential and become Washington insiders.  Part of the "Village".

 

It's no coincidence that Salon's Glenn Greenwald has become a close working associate of Markos Moulitsas and Jane Hamsher.

 

So, beware, Open Salon participants.  Don't give away your writing and your work.  Maintain your own blogs or participate in group blogs where you retain full rights and ownership of your work.

 

Otherwise, the sucker born everyday will be you, too.

 

Here's my last comment and its response on Firedoglake in response to a post by Tula Connell, who writes about labor and workers rights issues.  There's no response there, you say?  You're absolutely correct: