For those of you who don't recall Edscan, he was a "quirky" poster who used quasi-haiku posts. While he did put the "theory" into "conspiracy theory", he occasionally hit on something uniquely perceptive. I repeat his penultimate diary Clinto Cleans up the Mess? below:
There is an old adage that said, "If you don't know your
history, you will make the same mistakes over and over again".
The hostilities between the United States and North Korea
bears out that statement.
Bill Cinton's administration cranked out an agreement with
North Korea to provide them with oil from the Alaska
North slope if they would cease building nuclear plants.
It worked.
George W. Bush Immediately defaulted on that agreement
in order to create the "Nuclear Problem". It worked.
This forced North Korea to return to high priced Saudi Oil.
Exactly what "The Bushes" and their
Saudi Prince friend wanted.
I beleve Bill Clinton made this gesture to bring home
the imprisoned journalists with the hope that some
sanity can return to the relations with North Korea.
Bush created "future enemies" with his mouth.
His "evil empire" statements were examples of what
no President should ever say.
George W. Bush was, and is a war monger.
We have a long way to go "sorting out our friends
and enemies".
But we can do it.
You will be surprised.
For some reason, perhaps his all-seeing haughty power, Markos chose to ban Edscan the blogger-savant. But it seems to me that (a) no one was particularly fooled or misled by his crackpot ideas and (b) some of the things he wrote, such as the one I post above, were in their own way remarkably perceptive and provocative.
And in my brief review of his diaries, they seem to have been rather well received. He had over 12,000 recommends and 140 followers.
And the diaries which were, well, let's say ... in need of some supporting evidence ... were readily identified as such by the commenters. And Edscan had some interesting ideas, expressed in a unique way:
All Americans need this reminder.
The "losers" are without a "scare word".
"Communist", "liberal" and the lesser used
"left winger" have lost their impact.
They are constructing a new "scare word".
It is a word that has defined the losers
for years.
They have just realized how damaging that
word can be---even when it is a blatant lie.
That new "hate word" is "Racist".
Most of them are "racists"------
and they have realized that they can turn
the term around and make the victims be
blamed as oppressors.
I think Dkos is big enough to put up with a unique voice such as Edscan. One has to take people as a whole, the good must come with the ... uh ... conspiracy theory. IMHO the good in Edscan's contributions outweighed the readily identifiable CT So I think he should be unbanned.
What do you think?