This post, the one hundred and fourth that has been made to this thread, but now appearing as the one hundred and third to the OLO viewer, is made as a matter of record.

It is a 'carcase post'.

It takes note of the fact that for a brief period earlier this morning a post by the Lord High Dymo, Scourge of all the Sock-Puppets, Thread-Labeller-in-Chief of OLO, once appeared in this place.

It would be useful to know, in the interests of encouragement of more courteous and constructive discussion on OLO generally, whether the brevity of this appearance was due to a post deletion request by a user, an unsolicited one-off moderation decision, or because a temporary suspension had been somehow evaded before the post was noticed by the OLO administration.

I have been of the understanding that in the case of a suspension the subject userID is automatically blocked by the site software. Is that truly so, I wonder?

I'm not attempting to call into question this moderation decision. My own mouse cursor was at one time hovering over the post deletion request button, but I restrained my index finger, not wanting to be mean. In the interests of better opinionating, can we have some explanation for the removal of the Lord Dymo's post, if that can be productively done without generating contention?

Welcome to OLO, Von. Try not to feel too ashamed on your own behalf about the war in Iraq. Australia's participation might have been seen as necessary Wergild for Pearl Harbour. See: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=7725#120548 and subsequent posts in the thread.

Ya better watch out, Graham's got an itchy trigger finger lately.

Some say 9/11 was an Islamist_attack.

Others say it was an inside_job/false_flag operation by CIA/mossad etc.

Still others, while not denying either of the 2 above, claim it was the judgement_of_God. They extended this by connecting it to, among other things the gay and Lesbian movements and tolerance of them.

I wish to explore the possibility that whoever is behind it, it may indeed consitute some of the characteristics of divine judgement/wakeupcall/reminder.

When a nation becomes so obsessed with greed and gluttony, with materialism and moral miopia, they fall into the category of the Israelites when the prophets such as Isaiah addressed them.

Chap 1

15) When you spread out your hands in prayer,
I will hide my eyes from you;
even if you offer many prayers,
I will not listen.
Your hands are full of blood;

One prophet who stand out not by the length of his oration/prophecy, but by its nature is Habakkuk.

Just 3 short chapters (compared to Isaiah's 66)

He writes: (Ch 1)

4 Therefore the law is paralyzed,
and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous,
so that justice is perverted.

Sounds like a litigeous and greedy society to me.. Wall Street by any chance?

Gods response is that Judgement is coming.

6 I am raising up the Babylonians,
that ruthless and impetuous people,
who sweep across the whole earth
to seize dwelling places not their own.

One might be tempted without further reading to think that God saw some righteous quality in the Babylonians which suited them to be the 'stick' in His hand.. Habbakuk even asks God this

12) O LORD, you have appointed them to execute judgment;
O Rock, you have ordained them to punish.
Why are you silent while the wicked
swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

Indeed...why use people worse than the Israelites to punish the Israelites? Reason...they were mean't to be the source of salvation and righteousness to the world in God's name.

It was not that the Babylonians (or Saudis in the planes) were more righteous than the Americans.. but that America simply needed judgement.

That settles it then - God did it!

....and the CIA are his Chosen People...

Thank you for an interesting thread Daggett.

I'm not sufficiently researched to make much comment, however, I remain intrigued over the BBC's lame excuse for their pre-empted reporting of Building Seven's collapse.

What do you make of that Daggett:?

http://www.freewebs.com/911truthseeker/911andbuilding7.htm