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My comment (PDF), just now, at Q and O, which was immediately deleted:

“the demands of justice require it”

Where were the demands of justice when you hung Steven Rhett out to dry?

This is the second time since Monday that my comment has been deleted by someone at Q and O. My previous comment was also a reminder of Steven Rhett’s mistreatment at the hands of Dale Franks. McQ posted that blogging would be light due to everyone at Q and O enjoying spending Memorial Day with their families, and invited open discussion in the comments. I left a comment noting that Steven Rhett would have also liked to have spent Memorial Day with his family. I checked back a day or so later only to find the entire post deleted.

Franks cannot change what he did. Everyone makes mistakes, especially me, but to continue to attempt to conceal reminders of those mistakes is just plain cowardly.

Update: I attempted to leave a second comment:

This thread is about miscarriage of justice, isn’t it?

…after Franks advised me:

COMMENT BY MATT REMOVED

If you can?t stop the impulse to hijack the thread, then leave.

Or I?ll ban you. But thread hijacking ain?t gonna fly.

But I found that I’d already been banned:

You have attempted to enter a comment using a blacklisted term, or your IP Address has been banned. Your comment cannot be saved until the offending term has been eliminated, or the IP Address ban has been lifted by a blog administrator.

That’s a record for me, getting banned after only two comments to a blog. I must have struck a raw nerve.

A woman in Pontiac, MI was shot by her ex-boyfriend this past weekend.

Police said the woman had a court-issued personal protection order against the man. Her brother had been in the apartment to provide protection.

She had a useless piece of paper to protect herself. Neither she nor her brother, who was supposedly providing protection, had armed themselves with a gun.

If you’re so afraid of an ex that you go to the trouble of getting a peronal protection order, do yourself a favor: get a gun, learn how to use it, and keep it handy.

“When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.“

“my mandatory national alcohol interlock on all cars would have prevented this!”:

http://www.duiblog.com/2008/05/16/first-dui-west-point-expulsion-one-year-prison/#comment-1002

Executing everyone on the planet would have prevented it, too.

How many times do I have to say it?: the ends cannot justify the means.

Last Saturday I was utterly shocked to learn that my dad cut off the tips of two fingers on a table saw. My dad is Mr. Safety. He survived more than 30 years working on elevators, on the edge of open shafts, and near huge machinery, with some injuries, but nothing like this.

I heard about SawStop saws a while ago. A saw like that would have prevented my dad from losing the tips of his fingers.

I’ve done some more reading about SawStop saws since last Saturday, and came across this:

In an effort to get the power-tool industry to adopt safer technology, Gass recenlty visited the Consumer Product Safety Commission outside Washington D.C.

SawStop sure has a great way to prevent injuries. I wish my dad had been using a SawStop saw last Saturday, but there is no way that I would ever use the club of government to bludgeon anyone into submission to some product of mine.

Steven Gass makes a great product, based on great intentions, but using government coercion to compel people to use anything is never right, no matter how great the product or intentions.

That’s what two Pontiac, MI high schools are euphemistically calling the prison environment they’ve created after two students attacked a teacher.

The victims of the “indefinite modified lockdown” are learning a valuable lesson of government coercion every moment they’re in those so-called schools: it doesn’t matter if you’re completely innocent; the actions of others will be used as an excuse to punish you and constrain your freedom.