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Well, this is interesting:

I clicked on my browser shortcut to the Little Green Footballs site today (May 25, 2009) … and got a “403: Forbidden” error. So I tried accessing LGF through The Cloak. And sure enough, the site is up.

And yet I, and only I, am not allowed to access it.

What this means, I think, is that, after my first comment on LGF, Charles Johnson is not content to prevent me from posting on LGF, he doesn’t even want me reading it.

So, he’s blocked my IP address.

Oh. My. Fucking. God. I knew the guy was an out-of-control control-freak, but this is beyond the pale! This isn’t just “under the LGF bus,” it’s … it’s … well, I don’t even know what it is!

It’s like I’ve been banned from even looking at the Lizard Highway, much less driving on it!!

What kind of a twisted, paranoid, dictatorial dumbfuck-loser blocks you from even reading his site?!! Someone who really would make a good cult leader (no joke), that’s who. Or a good Party member in China, in my opinion. (Remember search engines blocking “offensive” sites, there?)

He’s also deleted my one-and-only posting. Fortunately, I saved a copy, for just such an occasion as this:

I don’t know of any examples in history where mass deportations weren’t cruel, brutal and just plain evil.

There are other alternatives, such as those which are currently being implemented by the Japanese, in dealing with their own (non-Muslim) issues: Japan to Foreign Workers: ‘Here’s Money, Now Go Away’.

Descendants of Japanese emigrants from Latin and South America, namely Brazil, are being told by the government of Japan that they will pay them to leave and go back to their home countries. Many of these people were born by Japanese emigrants who moved abroad in the past for work, and so have direct ties to Japanese culture through their families.

Now they are being told, thanks for playing, here’s a little coin for airfare, have a nice life. And if you take the door prize, your visa is void. So you can’t ever come back to work here. Thanks for playing!

One Japanese government official, Jiro Kawasaki, a senior lawmaker of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was quoted in The New York Times as saying: “We should stop letting unskilled laborers into Japan. We should make sure that even the three-K jobs are paid well, and that they are filled by Japanese,” he said. “I do not think that Japan should ever become a multiethnic society.”

The same non-cruel, non-brutal, and (IMO) non-evil approach has been advocated by Steve Sailer: A Buyout Option For Europe’s Muslims?

Incidentally, Bernie Planck (bernieg1) has a post up with regard to his experiences on this thread, earlier today: Kicked Off Little Green Footballs after One Comment.

This is also my first comment. (Well, technically the second, since the way your Ajax keeps grabbing control caused me to accidentally press the “post this comment” button earlier, when I was trying to click on a page in a different browser instance. I build software and websites myself, and I have to tell you: “Cool” is no substitute for “usable.”) It doesn’t really matter to me whether or not it’s also my last comment, as this is the only point I particularly want to contribute to the discussion.

The primary reason I have kept LGF bookmarked is for your postings on evolution and against Intelligent Design, which are truly valuable. Aside from that, I personally am just as happy under the LGF bus, as on it.

If I were you though, Charles, I’d read what Bernie has written, and then go take a good, long, hard look at myself in the mirror.

So I guess this means the cowardly “lizard-cult leader” won’t be taking a long, hard look at himself in the mirror, eh? That’s a shame.

Because, you know, all I was doing was suggesting that we follow the lead of the Japanese. And if the “Japs” are doing it, it can’t be racist, right?

Right? Help me out here, Charles.

If he wanted to delete my posting, that would be “understandable,” given his state of mind. If he wanted to close my account, that would also not be unexpected. But to block an IP address, so that the “offending party” can’t even access your site … even to view the genuinely valuable anti-ID postings … is, I think, past the point where you’ve genuinely lost it.

P.S. Web-2.0 “cool” really is no substitute for “usable.” And no real programmer would get so excited about simple JavaScript toolkits and the like as CJ periodically does.

Also, while I happen to be subscribed to an Internet package which involves a modem (and thus presumably a static IP address), my ISP also offers wireless USB packages (which would surely have their IP addresses assigned dynamically). So, if I was subscribed to the latter sort of package, Johnson could actually end up blocking access to his site, not for me specifically, but rather for random users (on that wireless network) in Toronto!

It was for exactly that sort of brain-fart that the phrase “Nice going, Einstein” was invented. Amateur.

No doubt it’s worth it to Control-Freak Johnson though, to ensure that I can’t access his site, except through a proxy….