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Title: State Silences Bakers Who Refused to Make Cake for Lesbian Couple, Fines Them $135K
Source: The Daily Signal
URL Source: http://dailysignal.com/2015/07/02/s ... esbian-couple-fines-them-135k/
Published: Jul 3, 2015
Author: Kelsey Harkness
Post Date: 2015-07-03 15:47:13 by Hondo68
Keywords: gag order on the Kleins, Christian beliefs, will not be silenced
Views: 26966
Comments: 124

Melissa Klein. (Photo: Patrick Frank)

Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian finalized a preliminary ruling today ordering Aaron and Melissa Klein, the bakers who refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding, to pay $135,000 in emotional damages to the couple they denied service.

“This case is not about a wedding cake or a marriage,” Avakian wrote. “It is about a business’s refusal to serve someone because of their sexual orientation. Under Oregon law, that is illegal.”

In the ruling, Avakian placed an effective gag order on the Kleins, ordering them to “cease and desist” from speaking publicly about not wanting to bake cakes for same-sex weddings based on their Christian beliefs.

“This effectively strips us of all our First Amendment rights,” the Kleins, owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, which has since closed, wrote on their Facebook page. “According to the state of Oregon we neither have freedom of religion or freedom of speech.”

The cease and desist came about after Aaron and Melissa Klein participated in an interview with Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins. During the interview, Aaron said among other things, “This fight is not over. We will continue to stand strong.”

Lawyers for plaintiffs, Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer, argued that in making this statement, the Kleins violated an Oregon law banning people from acting on behalf of a place of public accommodation (in this case, the place would be the Kleins’ former bakery) to communicate anything to the effect that the place of public accommodation would discriminate.

Administrative Law Judge Alan McCullough, who is employed by the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries and was appointed by Avakian, threw out the argument in the “proposed order” he issued back in April.

But today, Avakian, who was in charge of making the final ruling in the case—and is also an elected politician—reversed that decision.

“The Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries hereby orders [Aaron and Melissa Klein] to cease and desist from publishing, circulating, issuing or displaying, or causing to be published … any communication to the effect that any of the accommodations … will be refused, withheld from or denied to, or that any discrimination be made against, any person on account of their sexual orientation,” Avakian wrote.

(Photo: Alex Anderson/Facebook)

(Photo: Alex Anderson/Facebook)

The Kleins’ lawyer, Anna Harmon, was shocked by the provision.

“Brad Avakian has been outspoken throughout this case about his intent to ‘rehabilitate’ those whose beliefs do not conform to the state’s ideas,” she told The Daily Signal. “Now he has ruled that the Kleins’ simple statement of personal resolve to be true to their faith is unlawful. This is a brazen attack on every American’s right to freely speak and imposes government orthodoxy on those who do not agree with government sanctioned ideas.”

Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, called the order “outrageous” and said citizens of Oregon should be “ashamed.”

“This order is an outrageous abuse of the rights of the Kleins to freely practice their religion under the First Amendment,” he said.

It is exactly this kind of oppressive persecution by government officials that led the pilgrims to America. And Commissioner Avakian’s order that the Kleins stop speaking about this case is even more outrageous—and also a fundamental violation of their right to free speech under the First Amendment.

Avakian would have fit right in as a bureaucrat in the Soviet Union or Red China. Oregon should be ashamed that such an unprincipled, scurrilous individual is a government official in the state.

The case began in February 2013 when Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer filed a complaint against the Kleins for refusing to bake them a wedding cake.

At the time of the refusal, same-sex marriage had not yet been legalized in Oregon.

The Bowman-Cryers’ complaint went to the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, which is in charge of defending the law that prohibits businesses from refusing service to customers based on their sexual orientation, among other characteristics, called the Equality Act of 2007.

In January 2014, the agency found the Kleins unlawfully discriminated against the couple because of their sexual orientation. In April, McCullough recommended they pay $75,000 to Rachel and $60,000 to Laurel.

In order to reach the total amount, $135,000, Rachel and Laurel submitted a long list of alleged physical, emotional and mental damages they claim to have experienced as a result of the Kleins’ unlawful conduct.

Examples of symptoms included “acute loss of confidence,” “doubt,” “excessive sleep,” “felt mentally raped, dirty and shameful,” “high blood pressure,” “impaired digestion,” “loss of appetite,” “migraine headaches,” “pale and sick at home after work,” “resumption of smoking habit,” “shock” “stunned,” “surprise,” “uncertainty,” “weight gain” and “worry.”

In their Facebook post, the Kleins signaled their intention to appeal Avakian’s ruling, writing, “We will not give up this fight and we will not be silenced,” already perhaps putting themselves at risk of violating the cease and desist.


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#15. To: A K A Stone (#9)

I have a job coming up to work for two dykes. I've worked for fags before too.

So, their money spends too?

I don't get the distinction you make between recognizing their relationship for profit as you do versus baking a commercial cake for the same type of people.

Is it the marriage thingy?

If the dykes were married would you still do the work for them? Maybe you could try to convert them.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2015-07-03   16:35:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: misterwhite (#13)

GoFundMe kicked the Kleins off their site

Who cares? It is the Internet.

buckeroo  posted on  2015-07-03   16:36:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: A K A Stone (#14)

They are closer to God then [sic: than] non Christians.

What does that mean exactly?

buckeroo  posted on  2015-07-03   16:38:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: CZ82 (#12)

Ummmm I don't think the pro homosexual crowd

Are you saying Buckeroo is part of the homosexual crowd?

Are you also saying he doesn't know what tyranny was even though it is staring him in the face?

Is buckeroo just a runt of a wolf making a show by huffing and puffing and blowing?

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-07-03   16:39:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: buckeroo (#17)

They are closer to God then [sic: than] non Christians. What does that mean exactly?

That means that non Christians don't know God. Only Christians do. Therefore Christians are holier then non christians. I say that to mean true Christians not everyone who claims to be.

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-07-03   16:41:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: A K A Stone (#18)

Well, of course, according to your esteemed opinion it is ALL my fault. Man, I am humbled; yet, I have never advocated homosexual rights like your pal, yukon.

buckeroo  posted on  2015-07-03   16:42:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: hondo68 (#0) (Edited)

Welcome to the new America where groups of psychotics can impose their irrationality of your life and childish simpleton lawyers and judges can demonstrate their pseudointellectual prowess by helping them do it. This entire nation is being backed into a corner of childishness, mental illness, stupidity, and subverions by missionaries showing evidence of the preceeding.

rlk  posted on  2015-07-03   16:42:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: Fred Mertz (#15)

Is it the marriage thingy?

It is the forcing you to participate in a religious ceremony that you don't agree with. Prohibiting you from your free exercise of religion as established in the first amendment.

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-07-03   16:43:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: A K A Stone (#19)

That means that non Christians don't know God. Only Christians do. Therefore Christians are holier then non christians. I say that to mean true Christians not everyone who claims to be.

Are you a Christian, Stone?

buckeroo  posted on  2015-07-03   16:45:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: buckeroo (#20)

Well, of course, according to your esteemed opinion it is ALL my fault. Man, I am humbled; yet, I have never advocated homosexual rights like your pal, yukon.

You're getting off topic. But that thread I deleted the other day. Where you practically confessed that it was you that hacked Yukon. I should undelete it and chage the title to "Is This Buckeroos confession about Yukon". Yeah things can be undeleted.

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-07-03   16:45:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: A K A Stone (#24)

Please feel free to exercise your "divine" power and invite me back to challenge you and everyone just how it all works.

buckeroo  posted on  2015-07-03   16:48:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: buckeroo (#23)

Are you a Christian, Stone?

Yes. But not always a good one.

I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. I believe that sincerely. I do things wrong and I pray and ask for forgiveness.

Sometimes on here I say some stuff that doesn't represent me being a christian to well.

Often the destruction of our culture makes me quite angry and you can see it in my posts.

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-07-03   16:48:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: buckeroo (#16)

"Who cares? It is the Internet."

So a web site can discriminate because "it's the Internet", but a bakery can't.

You just make this shit up as you go along?

misterwhite  posted on  2015-07-03   16:50:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: misterwhite (#27)

but a bakery can't.

They can perform their practices for business, as they see it. You are going over the slippery slope, whitesands.

buckeroo  posted on  2015-07-03   16:54:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: A K A Stone (#26)

I do things wrong and I pray and ask for forgiveness.

hold on! lets get some Holy Water sprinkled on you before it is too late.

buckeroo  posted on  2015-07-03   16:56:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: Ferret Mike (#2)

They were paying customers who had not done anything more than gone to their dump to conduct a business transaction.

The State cannot force someone to violate their religious beliefs.

They could have bought their cake anywhere - the two carpet munchers were looking for a payday just like the one this liberal asshole awarded them.

Pain and suffering? Give me a frigging break.

Not Baking a Wedding Cake Leads to $135,000 Fine for Hurting Couple's Feelings

Respondent's denial of service made her feel as if God made a mistake when he made her, that she wasn't supposed to be, and that she wasn't supposed to love, have a family, and go to heaven. ... [She] interpreted the denial to represent that she was not a creature created by god, not created with a soul and unworthy of holy love and life. She felt anger, intense sorrow, and shame. These are reasonable and very real responses to not being allowed to participate in society like everybody else.

It was a cake. A cake! She has not been rejected from society. There is no actual argument or evidence presented that their ability to live their lives fully has been impaired by one rejection.

In fact, they got a free cake from semi-famous television baker Duff Goldman out of the publicity the state wanted to fine the Kleins for.

She sounds like she was driven nearly to suicide because she was rejected by a couple of bakers. I wonder what would have happened if these ladies stumbled across the Phelps family somewhere. They would end up in comas!

Much of the ruling is written in this vein, even though it also acknowledges at one point that testimony from one of the women was prone to exaggeration, and she gave testimony that was contradicted by others. They only considered her testimony when it was completely undisputed or corroborated by others.

The thing that is most repellant about this case is the gag order imposed on them.

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul

In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much

Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts

Deckard  posted on  2015-07-03   16:57:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: A K A Stone (#26)

Often the destruction of our culture makes me quite angry and you can see it in my posts.

If I owned your chit-chat channel I would have perm banned you, ISP and IP a long, long tyme ago.

buckeroo  posted on  2015-07-03   16:58:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: Ferret Mike (#2)

They do not have a right to refuse business based on discrimination.

They were paying customers who had not done anything more than gone to their dump to conduct a business transaction.

The right of free association is a cherished civil right. If you don't like someone, for whatever reason, you don't have to associate with them. Discrimination is essential to survival. If you don't discriminate you might end up eating a turd, instead of your burrito.

If you're commercial artist do you have to draw a picture of Muhammad if someone asks?

Hondo68  posted on  2015-07-03   17:09:26 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: hondo68 (#0)

Isn't this religious persecution and can not one take this to the supreme court?

Yes I know that the supremes are on a devilish roll right now but clearly this is over the top and a violation of their civil rights.

Justified  posted on  2015-07-03   17:50:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: Ferret Mike (#2)

Ferret, snitch, bootlicker....PERFECT name for you.

jeremiad  posted on  2015-07-03   19:03:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: hondo68 (#32)

If you're commercial artist do you have to draw a picture of Muhammad if someone asks?

I understand that Walmart will make you a cake with the ISIS flag. If you want the Confederate flag cake you're out of luck.

nativist nationalist  posted on  2015-07-03   19:34:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: A K A Stone (#24)

Well, of course, according to your esteemed opinion it is ALL my fault. Man, I am humbled; yet, I have never advocated homosexual rights like your pal, yukon.

You're getting off topic. But that thread I deleted the other day. Where you practically confessed that it was you that hacked Yukon. I should undelete it and chage the title to "Is This Buckeroos confession about Yukon". Yeah things can be undeleted.

That was a MOST interesting thread....yes, it was!

Gatlin  posted on  2015-07-03   19:43:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: Gatlin, A K A Stone, buckeroo (#36)

Where you practically confessed that it was you that hacked Yukon.

Pretty sure buck was kidding.

He's not computer savvy enough to pull off a stunt like that.

The blame for the entire incident lays squarely on the shoulders of yukon and his reprehensible henchmen.

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul

In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much

Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts

Deckard  posted on  2015-07-03   20:30:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: buckeroo (#31)

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-07-03   20:38:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: A K A Stone (#38)

And you can watch as you are made fun of and not able to respond.

Real classy Stone.

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul

In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much

Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts

Deckard  posted on  2015-07-03   20:43:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: Deckard (#39)

If someone says they would ban me. Then I ban them instead.

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-07-03   20:49:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: hondo68, buckeroo, Ferret Mike, A K A Stone, misterwhite, CZ82, Fred Mertz, rlk, Deckard, justified, jeremiad, nativist nationalist, Gatlin (#0)

The judge told them to STFU about Christ. They're not going to.

This is inaccurate.

The "Judge" spoken of was an Administrative Law Judge (an employee of an administrtive agency). An ALJ used to be called a Hearing Officer. He is not part of the judicial branch and does not preside over trials. As described below, the ALJ did not impose the cited cease and desist order, the Commissioner did.

In this case, [from the article]

Lawyers for plaintiffs, Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer, argued that in making this statement, the Kleins violated an Oregon law banning people from acting on behalf of a place of public accommodation (in this case, the place would be the Kleins’ former bakery) to communicate anything to the effect that the place of public accommodation would discriminate.

Administrative Law Judge Alan McCullough, who is employed by the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries and was appointed by Avakian, threw out the argument in the “proposed order” he issued back in April.

http://www.oregon.gov/boli/SiteAssets/pages/press/Sweetcakes%20signed%20PO.pdf PDF (112 pp.)

ALJ proposed order at 110-111: (underline added)

PROPOSED ORDER

A. NOW, THEREFORE, as authorized by ORS 659A.850, and to eliminate the effects of the violation of ORS 659A.403 by Respondent Aaron Klein, and as payment of the damages awarded, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries hereby orders Respondents Aaron Klein and Melissa Klein to deliver to the Administrative Prosecution Unit of the Bureau of Labor and Industries, 1045 State Office Building, 800 NE Oregon Street, Portland, Oregon 97232-2180, a certified check payable to the Bureau of Labor and Industries in trust for Complainants Rachel Bowman-Cryer and Laurel Bowman-Cryer in the amount of:

1) ONE HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($135,000), representing compensatory damages for emotional and mental physical suffering, to be apportioned as follows:

plus,

Rachel Bowman-Cryer: $75,000
Laurel Bowman-Cryer: $60,000

2) Interest at the legal rate on the sum of $135,000 from the date of issuance of the Final Order until Respondents comply with the requirements of the Order herein.

B. NOW, THEREFORE, as authorized by ORS 659A.850 and ORS 659A.855, and to further eliminate the effect of the violation of ORS 659AA03 by Respondent Aaron Klein, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries hereby orders Respondents Aaron Klein and Melissa Klein to cease and desist from denying the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of Sweetcakes by Melissa to any person based on that person's sexual orientation.

DATED this 21st day of April, 2015.

Alan McCullough,
Administrative Law Judge
Bureau of Labor and Industries

Note the absence of any gag order in the Proposed Order of the ALJ. It was later inserted into the Final Order by Commissioner Brad Avakian.

The ALJ who conducted the hearing submitted his Proposed Order to the Oregon Commissioner of Labor and Industry (BOLI) who issued the Final Order.

http://www.oregon.gov/boli/SiteAssets/pages/press/Sweet%20Cakes%20FO.pdf

Sweetcakes Final Order by Oregon Bureau of Labor and Insustry Commissioner Brad Avakian, at 42-43, ORDER. Pdf (122 pp.)

[underline added]

ORDER

NOW, THEREFORE, as authorized by ORS 659A850(4), and to eliminate the effects of the violation of ORS 659A403 by Respondent Aaron Klein, and as payment of the damages awarded, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries hereby orders Respondents Aaron Klein and Melissa Klein to deliver to the Administrative Prosecution Unit of the Bureau of Labor and Industries, 1045 State

Office Building, 800 NE Oregon Street, Portland, Oregon 97232-2180, a certified check payable to the Bureau of Labor and Industries in trust for Complainants Rachel Bowman-Cryer and Laurel Bowman-Cryer in the amount of:

1) ONE HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($135,000), representing compensatory damages for emotional, mental and physical suffering, to be apportioned as follows:

Rachel Bowman-Cryer: $75,000
Laurel. Bowman-Cryer: $60,000
plus,

2) Interest at the legal rate on the sum of $135,000 from the date of issuance of the Final Order until Respondents comply with the requirements of the Order herein.

B. NOW, THEREFORE, as authorized by ORS 659A850(4), and to further eliminate the effect of the violation of ORS 659A403 by Respondent Aaron Klein, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries hereby orders Respondents Aaron Klein and Melissa Klein to cease and desist from denying the full and equalaccommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of Sweetcakes by Melissa to any person based on that person's sexual orientation.

C. NOW, THEREFORE, as authorized by ORS 659A850(4), and to further eliminate the effect of the violations of ORS 659A409 by Respondents Aaron Klein and Melissa Klein, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries hereby

FINAL ORDER (Sweetcakes, ##44-14 & 45-14) - 42

- - - - -

orders Respondents Aaron Klein and Melissa Klein to cease and desist from publishing, circulating, issuing or displaying, or causing to be published, circulated, issued or displayed , any communication, notice, advertisement or sign of any kind to the effect that any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, services or privileges of a place of public accommodation will be refused, withheld from or denied to, or that any discrimination will be made against, any person on account of sexual orientation.

DATED this 2 day of July, 2015.

Brad Avakian, Commissioner
Bureau of Labor and Industries

Issued ON: July 2, 2015

FINAL ORDER (Sweetcakes, ##44-14 & 45-14) - 43

http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/659A.409

[underline added]

2013 ORS, Vol. 14, Chapter 659A, (Unlawful Discrimination In Public Accommodations)

§ 659A.409

Notice that discrimination will be made in place of public accommodation prohibited

age exceptions

Except as provided by laws governing the consumption of alcoholic beverages by minors and the frequenting by minors of places of public accommodation where alcoholic beverages are served, and except for special rates or services offered to persons 50 years of age or older, it is an unlawful practice for any person acting on behalf of any place of public accommodation as defined in ORS 659A.400 (Place of public accommodation defined) to publish, circulate, issue or display, or cause to be published, circulated, issued or displayed, any communication, notice, advertisement or sign of any kind to the effect that any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, services or privileges of the place of public accommodation will be refused, withheld from or denied to, or that any discrimination will be made against, any person on account of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status or age if the individual is 18 years of age or older. [Formerly 659.037; 2003 c.521 §3; 2005 c.131 §2; 2007 c.100 §7]

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Prior+Restraint

Prior Restraint

Government prohibition of speech in advance of publication.

One of the fundamental rights guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S.

Constitution is the freedom from prior restraint. Derived from English Common Law, the rule against prior restraint prohibits government from banning expression of ideas prior to their publication. The rule against prior restraint is based on the principle that Freedom of the Press is essential to a free society. Attempts by government to obtain a prior restraint have largely been unsuccessful.

The rule against prior restraint was undisputed for much of U.S. history. The landmark case of Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697, 51 S. Ct. 625, 75 L. Ed. 1357 (1931), finally settled the issue, with the U.S. Supreme Court finding that the First Amendment imposed a heavy presumption against the validity of a prior restraint.

In Near, the Court struck down a Minnesota state law that permitted public officials to seek an Injunction to stop publication of any "malicious, scandalous and defamatory newspaper, magazine, or other periodical." The statute was used to suppress publication of a small Minneapolis newspaper, the Saturday Press, which had crudely maligned local police and political officials, often in anti-Semitic terms. The law provided that once a newspaper was enjoined, further publication was punishable as Contempt of court.

Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, in his majority opinion, called the law "the essence of censorship" and declared it unconstitutional. With its decision, the Court incorporated the First Amendment freedom of the press into the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This incorporation made freedom of the press fully applicable to the states.

Though Hughes agreed that a rule against prior restraint was needed, he acknowledged that this restriction was not absolute. The rule would not, for example, prevent government in time of war from prohibiting publication of "the sailing dates of transports or the number and location of troops." Threats to national security interests are almost certain to prevail over freedom of the press, but it has proved difficult to invoke the "national security" justification.

[snip]

See also Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_restraint

IMHO, the Oregon law runs afoul of prior restraint and should be struck down as an unconstitutional exercise of assholedness. This does not appear to be a close call.

A constitutional issue might be whether the Klein's refused service because of the sexual orientation of the customers, or because of their own firmly held religious beliefs which prevented the Kleins from performing or partaking in certain actions.

nolu chan  posted on  2015-07-03   20:51:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#42. To: Deckard (#37)

He's not computer savvy enough to pull off a stunt like that.

Then why did he threaten someone that they best "strengthen their PASSWORD" just last week?

I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-07-03   21:04:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#43. To: A K A Stone, buckeroo, yukon, Murron, mcgowanjm (#38)

And you can watch as you are made fun of and not able to respond.

Way to go, Pebbles. You're a real class act.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2015-07-03   21:15:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#44. To: A K A Stone (#40)

He's mocked the site and called it the "chit chat channel" a hundred times. If he doesn't value or respect the site, then he obviously won't care if he's outcast.

Bye bye Ba ba ba ba Bucky

He'll return under another ID and disrupt. That's what no-rules, anything goes anarchists do.

I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-07-03   21:16:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#45. To: Fred Mertz (#43)

I can close the door on you too.

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-07-03   21:19:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#46. To: A K A Stone, Fred Mertz (#45) (Edited)

I can close the door on you too.

Maybe you should consider banning everyone who doesn't agree with you. We can call you Jim Rob then.

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul

In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much

Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts

Deckard  posted on  2015-07-03   21:46:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#47. To: Deckard (#46)

Maybe you should consider banning everyone who doesn't agree with you.

Do you always agree with me?

Why have I never threatened to ban you.

Answer: Because your behavior is much different then theirs.

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-07-03   21:49:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#48. To: GrandIsland (#44)

He's mocked the site and called it the "chit chat channel" a hundred times.

That's what it is, pig boy. I couple dozen people posting stuff.

Now, pebbles is trying to decrease this traffic by 10 or 20 percent.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2015-07-03   22:25:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#49. To: GrandIsland (#42)

He's not computer savvy enough to pull off a stunt like that.

Then why did he threaten someone that they best "strengthen their PASSWORD" just last week?

It sounds good.

nolu chan  posted on  2015-07-03   22:31:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#50. To: nolu chan, GrandIsland (#49)

I have absolutely no doubt he is computer savvy enought to pull it off.

I have been waiting to take the hit and expecting it any time.

My password remains unchanged.

Gatlin  posted on  2015-07-03   22:39:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#51. To: Fred Mertz (#48)

trying to decrease this traffic by 10 or 20 percent.

Then why post your hopeless message?

Might as well leave this site and eat a 3" magnum Buckyshot sandwich. lol

I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-07-03   22:40:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#52. To: GrandIsland, Fred Mertz, Deckard, hope 'n change, 3 inch yukon shot (#51)

our hopeless message?

eat a 3" magnum Buckyshot sandwich. lol

Show us how it's done, pigtard!

Free Bucky!

Hondo68  posted on  2015-07-03   22:52:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#53. To: Deckard (#46)

We can call you Jim Rob then.

Jim Robinstone...it has a nice ring to it. You can find me at freedom4um.com if and when pebbles suspends/bans me.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2015-07-03   23:19:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#54. To: Gatlin, GrandIsland (#50)

I have absolutely no doubt he is computer savvy enought to pull it off.

I have as little doubt that no hack was pulled off by anyone.

nolu chan  posted on  2015-07-03   23:52:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#55. To: nolu chan (#54) (Edited)

I have absolutely no doubt he is computer savvy enought to pull it off.

I have as little doubt that no hack was pulled off by anyone.

Someone posted this “Fine Already” thread.

What do you think happened?

Gatlin  posted on  2015-07-04   2:08:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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