I am very glad to see some semblance of altmed subject coming back to the 
echo.  It is getting almost pleasant to read it again.
  I was contemplating rule of behavior the other day and I noticed that there 
are rules everywhere...whether in a dept. store, beach, park, road, even to 
checking out library books, or where you live there are rules about what 
color your house has to be or if you disrupt the neighborhood.  Then to get 
even simpler, if you were having guests over to your home and some of them 
acted like some of the people here screaming they had THE RIGHT to say and do 
whatever they pleased and courtesy and other people's feeling be damned, how 
long would you personally have them in your house without asking them to 
leave?
    On a written note, if you walked into a newspaper office or a magazine 
publication and demanded that the editor print anything you wanted because 
you have freedom of speech and if he/she didn't he/she was a Nazi and was 
undemocratic, wouldn't you find that a little ridiculous?  Well, the same 
applies to any echo.  The moderator not unlike an editor, host or anyone else 
that has any say so decides what IS and is NOT proper on his/her echo. 
SOMEONE has to make rules and in this case that someone is me.  I tried to 
treat all of you like thinking, intelligent adults capable of understanding 
there are MANY opinions in the world, many will not fit into your lifestyle, 
belief system etc.  I was hoping you were all mature enough to accept this 
and let what didn't fit on go but that doesn't seem to be the case so up 
steps mean, nasty incompetant moderator, Dia.  From this point on, if you are 
unhappy with the echo, leave.  If you don't like the rules, start an echo of 
your own and do what you damn well please.  In Spock's words (probably badly 
misquoted) The rights of the many sometimes supercede the rights of the 
individual.  What is BEST for the whole of altmed is my decision and anyone 
not liking it, exit stage left.  A simple, polite request, a warning and then 
you're outta here.
        No need to reply to this or argue.  Abide or leave, simple choices. 
--- D'Bridge 1.30/002111
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