http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

I've been banned from Alternet. I have pretty consistently commented on any articles about war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan, or torture, with mentions of what brought all of this to us: 9/11. I've mentioned that Alternet will not present any of the piles of evidence that proves the official story to be false. My comments have been spammed by trolls like GuitarBill and others, sometimes ten or fifteen comments from GuitarBill, all of them very insulting and vulgar.
That commenter has not been banned.
My comments have never been vulgar and far less insulting to anyone than those comments by the trolls.
And yet I have been banned.

The last article was one by Daniel Ellsberg, whom I call a great American hero. It is pretty typical of my comments. I guess this one got me banned. Go and see it at http://www.alternet.org/world/141822/hiroshima_day%3A_america_has_been_a...

Our message, the truth of 9/11, is not just banned by the mainstream press. It is banned and censored by venues that I'm sure all of us thought would be sympathetic, like DemocracyNow, Alternet, antiwar.com, MotherJones, the Nation, Common Dreams, Counterpunch, Truthout, and others.
THIS is our opposition. THIS censorship is what has ensured that 9/11 truth remains on fringe websites. It is time we realize that our opposition is NOT just Fox, or CNN and the NYTimes. It is the alternative media, the liberal press, whatever you want to call it.

I keep hearing about how the internet has ensured a real democracy, because the truth gets out. Well, it may get out to a few who search for it, but those who control the press, including the internet websites with any circulation at all, have the same kind of control and censorship that has always gone on.

Will the 9/11 truth story die out just like the JFK truth story died out until it was mostly meaningless..............because the press refused to investigate? I think it will. I think it will, unless we can put the pressure on our "opposition".............the alternative press...........to present the truth.

Don't let Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales and Patrick Cockburn and the rest hide behind a reputation of brave journalism when they are censoring the truth just like Fox.

Here is the email I got from Alternet:

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There is a posting as recent as yesterday. Maybe a technical issue?

http://www.123realchange.blogspot.com/

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http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7347

" "From my opinion, if I'm some of the current members of Congress, I'd be very very worried about the information that's going to come out of this. There are current members of Congress that she has implicated in bribery, espionage. It's not good. It's crazy, it's absolutely crazy. For people in power situations in the United States, who know about this information, if they don't take action against it, in my opinion, it's negligence.

[Which current members have been implicated?]

[Dan] Burton (R-IN), described as basically accepting bribes and involved in espionage for the Turkish government...she could not discuss the extremely illegal activities that Mr. Burton committed against U.S. interests, as she put it.

Also, a current female Democratic [ed note: I misheard, he later said he didn't know if she was Dem or Rep] member of Congress who has been blackmailed by the Turkish Government...called a 'hooking exercise'...she's apparently bi-sexual and they bugged her apartment, she's married with children, and they set up a relationship with another female who went in and had sexual relationships with her. And they had all the episodes bugged within this current Representatives home and they blackmailed her. ... She wouldn't give her name, but her photograph [is the one with the question mark on it in the "Sibel Edmonds Rogue Gallery" ] .

The context of the discussion was that this particular Representative was amenable to passage of the Armenian Genocide Resolution. And then based on this 'hooking' operation, changed her position. She was reluctant to put this person's name on record.

[Other people implicated included] Livingston (R-TX), Hastert (R-IL), Dick Gephardt (D-MO), other non-Congressional members, people like Brent Scowcroft, other appointed members of the U.S. government.

One of the reasons we sought her testimony is especially for these reasons. I can tell you that counsel for Schmidt has been objecting to much of the testimony. I stopped counting the number of objections that were raised. But, she's an extremely credible witness, she knows a lot about what happened. She's implicated Turkish organizations operating in the U.S. with both overt and covert operations.

[Q: Which ones?]

ATC, ATAA, TACO...She talked about how she was recruited to join these operations, she talked about the fact that the Inspector General's report exonerated her, she talked about the circumstances around her dismissal, she talked about the fact that these the fact that these Turkish American operations were, she said in her words 'all receiving support from the Turkish government'.

She talks about one of the main lobby issues is suppressing U.S. media coverage of the Armenian Genocide and preventing the Armenian Genocide resolution in Congress from passing. She said very very strongly that is one of their major issues.

She also attested there is no credible opposition to the historical facts of the Armenian genocide, that it's only coming from Turkey.

[Ed note: Edmonds was raised in Turkey, though is a U.S. citizen. Krikorian is of Armenian dissent. Schmidt is neither, but she is co-chair of the Congressional Turkish Caucus.]

Did not have very flattering things to say about former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert. ... Actually, I stopped taking notes because I was o fascinated by what she was saying. ... She talked about the Rand Corp., Brewster-Jennings, nuclear secrets...

Frankly it's disappointing that things like this are happening in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Is it a huge surprise? No. Should it be tolerated? Absolutely not. I can't imagine George Washington and Thomas Jefferson allowing this sort of thing to go on in the Republic that they created. I cannot imagine it.

We're talking about High Crimes against the United States government. If the Government is aware of these High Crimes and doesn't prosecute them, I'm not sure what can be said about this.

...

[Q: Do you predict problems with Democrats whose support you will need when running against Schmidt as a Dem in 2010?]

Problem with Democrats...?

Well, Mr. Gephardt and Mr. Solarz are no longer Representatives of the U.S. House of Representatives. I think it would be extremely naive and the height of folly for the Democratic leadership to suggest for a moment that Democrats aren't also corrupt. I don't mean as an entirety, but that there aren't corrupt members of the Democrat caucus. I think there was a recent Democrat down south somewhere who was found with thirty thousand dollars cash in his freezer, or whatever.

If Democratic National Committee or the DCCC [Democratic Congressional Campaign Comm.] came out and said, 'hey, we're entirely clean and there's no fault on us', I think the American public would laugh at them. So, this is not an indictment of one party or the other. This is about standing up for what's right for the country, and what is right for the citizens of our country.

Again, I ran as an independent last time [in 2008]. I'm running as a Democrat [in 2010] because I think right now they're probably the better of the two parties. But nevertheless, I don't necessarily buy into the fact that they're without blood on their hands...

[Q: Did she implicate any sitting Democrats?]

She did not indicate any names of any currently serving Democrats that I'm aware. [Though he wasn't certain if the unnamed female Representative was either Democratic or Republican]."