My Retirement from this Forum.

Once again I have had my reply without notice or discussion deleted/removed from a topic.

As a form of protest I refuse to participate any futher on this forum group.

PeterM.

If thats all it takes to upset you its a miracle you lasted this long.
PJ

It is there Forum is it not?

Peter, If your see this, Sorry to hear your out. I understand your upset about this issue. From what i can see this is about the ANZAC thread. To slightly disagree with you, Anzac day, to me isn't to remember a certain war or certain time in military history, it is to remember the servicemen/women who gave their lives for our country, and to show appreciation for those who are serving our country now.
Not everyone has the same opinion/ideas on things but that's what life is about.
I hope that this can can be sorted out and you stay on the forum because i, and i would have to say, a lot of others feel you have valuable input to this forum. The end of the day this is a car forum. So let's not let an issue, that's not even car related, effect it.

To the moderators/administrators, As an ex-serviceman (Navy), who has returned from 'active service'(Iraq), I feel i have the right to speak out on this issue and I was not offended by anything Peter said, it is always interesting to hear others opinions. Please respond.

Open for other opinions.

Regards, Richo

I did not read what PeterM posted, so I don't know why a moderator intervened.

Just for my education, where are the powers of a moderator stated on this forum?

I'm curious because unless there was something blasphemous, defamatory or the like in PeterM's post, the Australian Constitution guarantees freedom of speech.

Why should I blog myself when all I would be doing is repeating well documented historical facts?

My reply to the Anzac topic was not of a political nature, but based on well known and well accepted historical documentation that can be found in any one of 1001 books, and can be seen on oodles of television documentaries, and has been openly taught in Australian schools from way back whenever to current day.

For those of you that know me will be able to confirm I am a non political person.

I deny I have insulted or offended anyone.

If my comment had no place on the classic ford forum due to being off topic then the Anzac topic itself should be removed. All I was doing was replying to that topic.

If I have inadvertently breached forum rules by speaking non classic ford then I apologise However if this is so, the topic “THE PUB” should have a clear concise footnote informing users of the limitations of the forum. As stands “THE PUB” appears to be an area of open discussions of any topic.

Forum groups by their nature are environments promoting educated open discussions. By deleting/removing that educated discussion without prior warning or acknowledgement to the author is preventing that open discussion. Hence therefore can be assumed as blatant poorly administered censorship of true documented facts, of which I am critical.

Anyway good luck with it all.

I am making my protest vote and will say no more.

According to the link below the Australian constitution does NOT guarantee freedom of speech as most people think, in America the bill of rights covers all that stuff.

I did see what was posted and thought it was unnecessary and not in the the spirit of the thread.

http://www.aph.gov.au/LIBRARY/pubs/rn/2001-02/02rn42.htm

The Australian Constitution does not have any express provision relating to freedom of speech. In theory, therefore, the Commonwealth Parliament may restrict or censor speech through censorship legislation or other laws, as long as they are otherwise within constitutional power. The Constitution consists mainly of provisions relating to the structure of the Commonwealth Parliament, executive government and the federal judicial system.(6) There is no list of personal rights or freedoms which may be enforced in the courts. There are however some provisions relating to personal rights such as the right to trial by jury (section 80), and the right to freedom of religion (section 116).

Just for the record,Peter i did not report you.




.."I MIGHT NOT AGREE WITH WHAT YOU SAY, BUT ILL DEFEND YOUR RIGHT TO SAY IT".


Regards
James