A few months ago, I was arguing here with Slim about how, back in the old days, she and others were targeting just about anyone as being a LaRouchie, and I described the chaos that witchhunt had caused. I especially noted an incident when herself and long time user (and another anti-LaRouche figure)
172Â
(T-C-L-K-R-D)
discussed banning a totally innocent guy as a "New LaRouche editor" back in 2007.
Here is my post, Slim simply batted this incident off by not addressing it specifically - claiming that people weren't banned as LaRouchies without good reason.
QUOTE(Kato @ Sun 12th April 2009, 6:07am)
Not necessarily so. The whole LaRouche vs anti-LaRouche thing was a farce that had spilled out all over Wikipedia. Wholly unrelated people were getting threatened by Wikipedia powerplayers as "LaRouchies" on a regular basis. People saw it with their own eyes and have not been swayed by Hersch at this site. It was outrageous, and one of my
first posts at this site was to highlight one such offense.
In April, 2007, an editor went to SlimVirgin and Willbeback and
wrote this about
MbhiiiÂ
(T-C-L-K-R-D)
:
QUOTE(User:172)
New LaRouche editorThis looks quite familar now. [
10] Like the last HK sockpuppet blocked by SlimVirgin, HonourableSchoolboy, this account has been editing articles that appear in my recent contributions history or are linked to my userpage. Sigh. 172 | Talk 19:59, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. Sadly, by now I can spot LaRouche propaganda from a mile away. 172 | Talk 20:23, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
The message to SlimVirgin has since been deleted. But the spirit of the message is typical. The accused had nothing to do with LaRouche, and his edits had nothing to do with LaRouche. Yet he was immediately attacked as a "New LaRouche" editor.
A group of editors, led by SlimVirgin, and accompanied by anti-LaRouche campaigners Chip Berlet and Dennis King (whose Conflicts Of Interest were never questioned) were allowed to treat Wikipedia like an anti-LaRouche version of the McCarthy witch-hunts. Thus creating massive bad feelings and subverting the whole culture of the place.
Well here comes the most ridiculous development yet. Having spent years orchestrating witch-hunts with Slim and Will against LaRouchies, former admin User:172
has himself been indefinitely banned by some lunatic administrator - on the declaration that he is the pro-LaRouche renegade
CognitionÂ
(T-C-L-K-R-D)
based on "checkuser evidence".
So either User:172 was the most brilliant stooge account ever (going back to 2002), or WP's checkuser facitilities are so incompetent, it has convicted the Witchfinder General of being a witch! (IMG:
smilys0b23ax56/default/laugh.gif)
And to cap it off. Slim was
right in the mix during these latest banning discussions which nailed 172!
The idiocy and the irony, banning nonsense goes full circle
