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On Apr 6, 2:48 pm, RudiL  wrote: > On 6 Apr, 13:28, "Brian Robertson"  wrote: > > > > > Brimstone wrote: > > > Judith Smith wrote: > > >> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 12:39:52 +0100, "Brian Robertson" > > >>  wrote: > > > >>> Tosspot wrote: > > >>>> Brian Robertson wrote: > > >>>>> Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: > > >>>>>> On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:06:29 +0100, Roger Thorpe > > >>>>>>  said in > > >>>>>> : > > > >>>>>>> Eh? I can't see anything there but Guy's explanation of conflict > > >>>>>>> with a cold fusion nutcase and endorsements of support for Guy's > > >>>>>>> stance. > > >>>>>>> I hope that you will be able to explain it for me and point out > > >>>>>>> his ghastly bad behaviour. > > >>>>>> And we (not me, unless I was more WP:ROUGE than I remember) > > >>>>>> blacklisted ED for good reason too. Wikipedia is an > > >>>>>> encyclopaedia, links are for sources, ED is not a source. End > > >>>>>> of. Guy > > > >>>>> My God, you have got yourself some vile enemies. > > > >>>> Who was it that said you can judge a man by his enemies? > > > >>> I'm not pretending that Chapman would be my idea of a person to be > > >>> marooned with on a desert island, but no way does he deserved the > > >>> violent abuse that he suffers on here and elsewhere. > > > >> Indeed - but *why* does he attract the abuse which no-one else does? > > > > You're best placed to answer that since you seem to be his chief > > > abuser. > > > All I've said about Chapman, and I have no problem repeating it, is that he > > brings a lot of the trolls here and he could do a lot more to get rid of > > them. > > Personally I would be quite happy to see this group moderated (even > by Guy) if it would get rid of all the petrol heads and supporters.

Well, it's been obvious for a long time that the anti-motorist crowd like to censor their opponents (and their nasty true arguments), but that's about the most explicit admission I've ever seen. Thanks, Rudeboy: you've made the job of humiliating the motorist-haters even easier.