Defend them? That's a major slap in the face!

The more you defend them, the less I see the difference between Perverted Qaeda and the original Qaeda.

I take it you mean PJ. Know this qtns2di4: I have never uttered a word in defense of an anties' foul plans nor actions in my life-here or anywhere. On the other hand, I do act as one who is, en large, co-responsible for maintaining the existence of GirlChat-both by helping to build it, rebuild it, maintain it, finance it, and moderate it. It is in this capacity of responsibility that I see a stark duty to draw attention to the need for all to self moderate our hate speech.

As rule three of the FAQ states:

"We're trying to provide a respectful, non-judgmental place where girl lovers can get ideas out in the open. Hate-mongering just doesn't fit in with that mission. If you must disagree, please do so without being disagreeably rude."

You also write:

The people they have outed have overwhelmingly been non-offenders.

First, I will address that statement with regard to outing. One can not be outed if one does not give PJ information to work with. But you have just underscored a second reason for keeping a low hate profile. I am convinced PJ keeps a dossier on every poster as well as their habits. Indeed, I have visited a sight where I have seen more than I imagined. We continuously do our part to guard each of you by counseling you to use an anonymizer, not to keep cookies so you can't be followed, and by our personal counsel and counsel in the FAQ we labor over keeping updated so as to urge you in every way possible not to reveal identifying information about yourselves nor to needlessly draw attention about yourselves by antagonizing them.

The people they have outed have overwhelmingly been non-offenders

Second, let me say a word about my concern for those whom I was talking about: those who have erred and kissed, got caught, convicted, sentenced, served their sentences, and were kept in confinement due to being perceived as a violent risk-even without having acted violently.

I have two friends. One friend served with me as co-webmaster of Common Ground. The other served as a member of our Committee. Both, despite knowing better let down their guard and erred, loved, got caught, convicted to very long terms. How will our conduct sway the decision of their state to keep them after they have served their sentences or release them-which all do well to note that three of 19 states have backpedaled after an unknown number of interested individuals and groups lobbied on behalf of justice for the convicted pedophile who had served their terms and agreed to end civil confinement. We who post should know each post is a potential letter as each post can end up on the desk of those who have the power to reverse the trend and increase the cost of a kiss. It is not only anties who send model posts. Some supporters do so by including excerpts of posts which show we are a rational people-using neither nicknames nor identifying information.

Will you write angry letters, via the anties, copying you as well as your nick, which will serve no purpose but to reaffirm we put society at risk; or, will you write letters of appeal which demonstrates we are people of reason-and capable of living peaceably within the law?

The more you defend them...

Let's put that broken record in its place in the wastebasket, qtns2di4. I'm defending you and all of my brothers and sisters whom I work for-not the anties, babe. Indeed, I'm defending you when I call for self moderation of hate speech. Know thy enemy. You antagonize them at the board's peril. This is a wake up call-not a denunciation of a valid basis for anger. I choose not to join in expressions of anger for the same reasons I do not respond to your false accusations more sternly.

Anger accomplishes naught. It is a prize fighter's worse enemy. And I fight for the prize of freedom to love those whom God or nature has decreed old enough to love by virtue of their ability to conceive. I also fight for our ability to express affection for those who express a desire to receive our affection-without harm to the less maturated body and mind of that younger person.

Cordialy, Shξξpy