3 Cheers for WTMHouston!
THIS post will likely live in infamy and be copied to all the message boards on the Internet over time.
It will live as a hallowed sacrament to those who read posts, who wish to write posts, who don't post posts because they have bad grammar, or who don't post because they are at a library somewhere in READ ONLY MODE!
Nonetheless, WTMHouston's post will long outlive the decaying attitude's of both posters and non posters alike.
Some day in Congress, there just may be a Special Session to include WTMHouston's post into the Constitution of The United States of THE INTERNET!
Here is the post of WTMHouston...in it's original entirety!......
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Posted by: WTMHouston
In reply to: IH Admin [Matt] who wrote msg# 29498Date:9/13/2003 12:03:55 AM
Post #of 29717
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in posting history as the greatest demonstration for posting freedom in the history of IHUB.
Five score and more months ago, a great programmer, in whose symbolic shadow we post today, joined and signed the IHUB Business Plan. This momentous decree came as a great beacon of hope to millions of posting slaves, who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their posting captivity. But one hundred days and more later, the poster is still not free. One hundred days and more later, the life of the poster is still sadly crippled by the manacle of posting political segregation and the chains of posting discrimination.
One hundred and more days later, the poster lives on a lonely island of posting poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material posting prosperity. One hundred and more days later, the poster is still languishing in the corners of IHUB society and finds himself an exile in his own and others land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful posting condition.
In a sense we have come to our Q&A Thread to cash a check. When the architects of our great thread wrote the magnificent words of the Terms of Use and Terms of Service, they were signing a promissory note to which every civil poster was to fall heir.
This note was a promise that all posters, yes, liberals as well as conservatives, would be guaranteed to the inalienable rights of life liberty and the pursuit of posting happiness.
It is obvious today that IHUB has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her posters of political persuasion are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, IHUB has given the poster people a bad check, a check that has come back marked "insufficient posting funds."
But we refuse to believe that the bank of IHUB justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of posting opportunity of this community. So we have come to cash this posting check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom of posting and security of moderators.
We have also come to this hallowed board to remind IHUB of the fierce urgency of Now. This is not time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of posting gradualism.
Now is the time to make real the promise of civil posting.
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of deletion to the sunlit path of posting justice.
Now is the time to lift our moderators from the quicksands of posting injustice to the solid rock of equal posting brotherhood.
Now is the time to make posting justice a reality to all of God's IHUB children.
It would be fatal for the founders to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of it's posting citizens. This sweltering summer of the posters and moderators legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality in posting and moderating. Two Thousand Three is not an end but a beginning. Those who hope that the posters needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the posting nation returns to business as usual.
There will be neither rest nor tranquility in IHUB land until the poster is granted his posting citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our boards until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of posting justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful posting deeds.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for posting freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred and instigation. We must ever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical posting violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting posting physical force with posting soul force.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the posting community must not lead us to a distrust of all posting people, for many of our posting brothers and sisters, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their posting destiny is tied up with our posting destiny. They have come to realize that their posting freedom is inextricably bound to our posting freedom. We cannot post alone.
And as we post, we must make the pledge that we shall always post ahead. We cannot turn back posts.
There are those who are asking the devotees of posting rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the poster is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of moderator deletion brutality.
We can never be satisfied as long as our posting fingers, heavy with the fatigue of typing, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the information highways and the hotels of IHUB.
We cannot be satisfied as long as the posters basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto board to a larger one.
We can never be satisfied as long as our second posting aliases, er children are stripped of their posting selfhood and robbed of their posting dignity by signs stating "for certain posters only."
We cannot be satisfied as long as a poster in Boston cannot vote and a moderator in Texas believes he has nothing for which to vote.
No, no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until posting justice rolls down like waters and posting righteousness like a mighty stream.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of your trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow posting jail cells and showers. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for posting freedom left you battered by storms of persecutions and staggered by the winds of moderator and posting brutality.
You have been the veterans of creative posting suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned posting suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Boston and Hawaii, go back to Texas, go back to New York, go back to Florida, go back to the hills of New Jersey, go back to San Francisco, go back to Portland, go back to Boogerville, go back to Tampa, go back to North Carolina, go back to Rhode Island, go back to Canada, go back to Los Angeles, go back to Colorado, go back to Washington, go back to So Cal, go back to Ottawa, go back to San Juans, go back to the posting slums and ghettos of RB and our modern IHUB cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us not wallow in the valley of posting despair.
I say to you today, my friends, that even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow. I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American posting dream.
I have a posting dream that one day this message board will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all posters are created equal.
I have a posting dream that one day on the red hills of NoLib land the sons of former posters and the sons of former moderators will be able to sit down together at the table of posting brotherhood.
I have a posting dream that one day even the state of NoLib land, a board sweltering
with the heat of liberal oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a posting dream that our little liberal instigators will one day post in a place where they will not be judged by the name of their politics but by the content of their opinions.
I have a posting dream today.
I have a posting dream that one day down in Rant Land, with its vicious rules, with its moderator having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; that one day right down in Rant Land little liberal boys and liberal girls will be able to join hands with little conservative boys and conservative girls as sisters and brothers in posting.
I have a posting dream today.
I have a posting dream that one day every view shall be exalted, and every hill and every mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plains and the crooked places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together while posting at IHUB.
This is our posting hope. This is the posting faith that I will go back to the threads with. With this posting faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of moderator despair a stone of posting hope
With this posting faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our boards into a beautiful symphony of posting brotherhood.
With this posting faith we will be able to post together, to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to climb up for posting freedom together, knowing that we will be free posters one day.
This will be the day when all of God's posting children will be able to sing with new meaning "My IHUB 'tis of thee, sweet land of posting liberty, of thee I post. Land where my politics died, land of the posters pride, from every posting-site, let posting freedom ring!"
And if IHUB is to be a great message nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the hilltops of Tallahassee. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of Boogerville.
Let posting freedom ring from the castrated woods in Tennessee.
Let posting freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let posting freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California and posting fems.
But not only that, let freedom, ring from Stone Mountain of NoLib land.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Liberalville and every conservative posting
mountainside.
And when this happens, when we let posting freedom ring, when we let it ring from every posting tenement and every posting hamlet, from every posting state and every posting city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's posting children, liberal men and conservative men, posting Jews and Gentiles, posting Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join posting hands and sing in the words of the old spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are posting free at last."
Troy
