To date, 26 people posted on this thread.

Not all of them commented on my censored letter. Many of those who did not comment said that they had not seen it but found it hard to believe, based on my other postings, that it was in violation of the TOS.

Of those who did see it, three found it objectionable. One of those three was ftomnibox who called it a "racist rant" and a "hateful, bigoted, post."

As the letter did not mention race, much less in a bigoted manner, absolutely nobody, including the moderators, agreed with what he said.

The remaing two who found my letter objectionable were moderators. It was their feeling that it constituted a personal attack.

Some posters, including people with whom I (almost) never find common political ground, stated their disagreement with that assessment. Not a single poster stated that he/she agreed with the moderators.

I, personally, can not understand how the moderators came to the conclusion that it was a personal attack.

Yes, it called into question debo_nair's line of reasoning, but as anrkitek pointed out, "You cannot debate any serious issue or idea without being able to call into question a persons line of reasoning, but doing so does not necessarily constitute a personal attack."

As anrkitek's own postings, doing the same thing in the same thread, were not censored, I can only assume that the moderators have no problem with questioning a person's line of reasoning.

Before going public with my objections to the censorship, I exchanged letters with the moderators. Only after they refused to budge did I make my objections openly.

Hopefully now, after having the advantage of seeing the viewpoints of various FTers, the moderators will reconsider their decision and allow the letter to be re-instated.

This would constitute neither a personal victory for me nor a defeat for the moderators. Indeed, it would be very much to their credit as they would demonstrate that they are open-minded enough to listen to, and accept, the views of others.

For myself, and hopefully for others on the political Right, it would be a signal that we will be treated equally on OMNI -- which is the only thing that I (and I believe others) require in order to resume posting there.