Well the issue of free speech appears to be a losing proposition as most people seem content to be secure and subjugated. I will fight alongside those willing to defend liberty but no one can defend liberty for those unwilling to do so for themselves.

I lament these times we are in for my disappointment with community and country are great, perhaps most of all with myself. Yet I also understand this is the way of ages coming to a close heralding the phoenix rising. This new age of life o... read more

It's been nice to meet many of you and I figure soon this place will be a different place.

To say I am disappointed is an understatement. I joined tribe precisely because it was a place of free thinkers. I don't plan on leaving right away and I doubt they will kick me out. But as the quality of debate in most of the tribes I belong to has deteriorated so badly of late I figure as so many of the people I respect are leaving it is downhill from here.

Tonight when I sign off I won't be... read more

Let's do it.

For all those that are interested in sending a mild but meaningful statement to Tribe.net that we are dissatisfied with the upcoming changes; let us count our numbers.

For those of us in the US let's take this coming Sunday off from 12am PST to 12am PST and make it 12am Sunday till 12 Noon Monday GMT for our international brethren.

A good day away from the computer, not just Tribe is a good idea. It seems already that many have begun to leave. Some wil be sorely missed. ... read more

This link is too funny in a morbid kind of way.

Please listen to it because this is where society is headed even faster if organizations like Tribe begin to represent the Feds more than the members.

www.adcritic.com/interactive/view.php

There is hope however and the boycott idea has been getting a lot of support. There are other ideas out there too but there is no inherent contradiction between these various protest plans and a boycott. What really matters is a coordi... read more

I want to know hope but it is no hope.

I have no sense of humor. I guess it is true that I am humor impaired. I can tell something is missing but I find so little of what makes people laugh effects me the same way.

I guess it is why I feel like an alien here.

I am not going to rant today but say how interesting to me how fast things can change. I thrive on change so for me that is very satisfying. I am trying to alter what I spend my time on.

I have been away from the computer... read more