So much for “Free Speech” on the internet!  I had a few problems on my Newsvine Column yesterday (Sunday), and had another “run-in” with someone on there who has been the bane of my Newsvine life ever since I joined the site over a year ago.

To cut a (very) long story short, the gist of the matter is this;

I am in regular contact with articles and news from many different sites, among them the BNP site.

There was a very good piece about those Terrorists in India, that the BNP had asked people to put about on other sites. So, I did so.

Now I have been informed that because I posted the article from the BNP site, my account has been suspended for a week as I have breached the Newsvine “Code of Honor”.

Apparently, the British National Party site is on their “Banned” list, and I was hauled over the coals for doing what I did.

So, I am now “personna non gratia” there.

Will I go back after the suspension?

I shall really need to think carefully about it. I hate being told what I can write and what I can’t write. After all, it isn’t as if they are paying my salary or anything, last month my “earnings” from the site was a paltry Nine Dollars!

So, I shall have to give this some serious thought, and I shall see how I feel in a weeks time.

I’ll keep you all informed.

I may just put my own Domain to good use now instead.

I dislike ‘Conjurors’ popularly known as ‘magicians’ very much. I think that the popular image of a ‘magician’ is totally wrong. You know the type of person I’m talking about, people like Paul Daniels, who use the term totally out of context.
A person who puts on a ‘magic’ show, is nothing but a hoodwinking deciever, who uses trickery and deception to make his audience think that he can perform ‘magic tricks’.
My dislike of these con-artists goes way back to when I was about nine years old. My local fete had booked a so-called ‘magician’ to put on his act on an open air stage. As usual, he asked for members of the audience to come up on the stage to ‘help’ him perform certain tricks. Well, I was with my parents in the front row, and he picked on me to help him do one of his cons. It involved tying a knot in some rope. Well, he showed me how he wanted it tied, then passed the rope to me to tie the knot. Now, I have never been very good tying knots, and quite simply I couldn’t do it. He snatched the rope back and began making fun of me in front of about two hundred people. Well, you can imagine how I felt. The audience weren’t laughing with me, but AT me! I had never felt such shame and humiliation in my young life before, and I burst into tears and ran off the stage sobbing.
He never apologised to me or my parents, but found another mug to help him with the trick.
I never forgave him, and have never forgotten it, either, and to this day, I absolutly hate performers of this type of act.
Many years later, I discovered what a ‘Real Magician’ was, and he certainly wasn’t a member of the ‘Magic Circle’!