June 9, 2007
Comment is Free - But Not That Free
I wondered how the Guardian would react to my criticism of their editorial staff on comment is free. What they appear to have done is attempt to delete the entire article altogether. I tried to do that with a posting on this blog, but found that if you had the exact url it would still appear, no matter how comprehensively off this server. So this link still works -
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/craig_murray/2007/06/reids_new_best_friends.html
The remarks in question come in a comment I added at the end of the thread.
The Guardian has removed any reference to the article from the home page and cif listings, so there is no way anybody visiting the Guardian today knows it is there. I don't know whether it is still possible to post a comment below it.
So I am asking everybody with access to a blog or site to post the above link over the course of the next week, to defeat the Guardian's attempt to cut off dissent at its abandonment of its liberal tradition.
We have now mirrored the Guardian page just in case they do manage to find a way to scrub the original
http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/CiF/reids_new_best_friends.html
People can also, of course, post on other Guardian comment is free threads protesting at the deletion of this article. Then we will see how free comment really is at the Guardian.
Posted by craig on 9:41 AM 09/06/07 under UK Policy | Comments (1)
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16 comments:
Have linked this HG
Thanx L
Oh, your mentor is back with all his rational, manly arguments, elevating the tone of your blog HG. What would we do without men like him to put us straight?
really this
morning I've
nothing to do.'
Said HG
to the cur,
...'
'I'll be
judge, I'll
be jury,'
...
'I'll try
the whole
cause, and
condemn
you
to
death.'
You should be afraid. Labour trolls like you can never distinguish between the defence of civil liberties and political stance; and you members of the lumpenproletariat were never skilled enough to be Angels.
'Hypocrite, ignorant, malicious '
I have deleted you before for applying untrue epithets to commenters here, not for your posing arguments against views expressed. I explained that others often disagree firmly with what I say but never lose the capacity to do so courteously.
You cannot.
You can have whatever political views you like TBNGU, but if you can't be civil to HG or refrain from being patronising in her personal space, and insist that you have the higher (moral?political?) ground you will get it back (ref: your previous comments on this blog). All in favour of free speech mate, doesn't mean anyone has to listen though... I dont think you have ANY IDEA of how rude you have been to your host. If you were at my party, I would ask you to leave. Is that censorship? Or simply a refusal to take abuse from an ill bred fool?
And you are like the Hatter, if we are going all "Alice" TBNGU. (I am the caterpillar by the way)
Mr HG met Craig Murray; lovely man and very brave. It takes much more, as Ambassador or permanent secretary, or senior Foreign office legal advisor to face these authoritarians than ignore them on a blog I imagine.
I so admire people who are having their careers smashed rather than back down in the face of the vile Labour Executive and their apologists and beneficiary hangers-on.
Newmania had a post on what would we have done as national socialism came to power; I hope we would all have at least SAID something.
Sometimes I have to have guests 'officially' L, as I'm sure we all have; come 11.30 and the awful ones have to leave once time's up.
Would you care to stay on for a little supper?
"what's that sucking sound?"
"John Reid with a straw and your liberties."
Hmmm, I'd love to HG. Will there be cherries?
Craig Murray is an extraordinarily brave man. He is lucky not to have met with some "terrible accident". He was just trying to do his job!
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