Banned from Babble

Here's an excerpt from the wikipedia entry for Jeff House who was recently permanently banned from babble:

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Jeffry House was born in Wisconsin, United States of America and grew up in Milwaukee. After a year as an exchange student in Norway, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1969.

House was drafted into the US Armed Forces during the Vietnam War. In January 1970, House evaded the military draft and fled to Canada.

House received a Master's Degree in Political Theory from York University and a Law Degree from the Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has practiced law for nearly three decades.

For six years, House served as a quasi-judicial court enforcing the Ontario Human Rights Code. His decisions involve an early gay rights case in which spousal benefits were awarded to same sex partners (Clinton & Mercaz), and the Northwestern General Hospital case, where Crown disclosure obligation was held to apply in Human Rights cases.

In 1991, he was counsel on the Osborne decision in the Supreme Court of Canada which struck down the law which prevented public employees from participating in after work political activities.

He has two sons: Alex House (a well-known Canadian television actor) and Patrick House.

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Here's an excerpt from the wikipedia entry on Robespierre, (the babbler Jeff supposedly insulted leading to his banning):

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Robespierre believed that the Terror was a time of discovering and revealing the enemy within Paris, within France, the enemy that hid in the safety of apparent patriotism. Because he believed that the Revolution was still in progress, and in danger of being sabotaged, he made every attempt to instil in the populace and Convention the urgency of carrying out the Terror. In his Report and others, he brought tales and fears of traitors, monarchists, and saboteurs throughout the Republic and also the Convention itself.

Robespierre expanded the traditional list of the Revolutions' enemies to include moderates and "false revolutionaries". In Robespierres' understanding, these moderates and "false revolutionaries" were not only ignorant of the dangers facing the republic, but also in many cases disguised themselves as active contributors to the Revolution, who simply repeated the work of others, or even impeded the progress of the patriots. Anyone not in step with the decrees of Robespierres' committee is said to have been eventually purged from the Convention, and thoroughly hunted in the general population. While it is debated whether Robespierre targeted moderates to accelerate his own agenda, or out of legitimate concern for France, it is known that his definition of the word "traitor" led to the execution of many of the Revolutions' original and staunchest advocates.

Robespierre saw no room for mercy in his Terror, stating that "slowness of judgements is equal to impunity" and "uncertainty of punishment encourages all the guilty"

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That there is no place on babble for Canada's foremost social justice and human rights lawyer, while anonymous babblers like Robespierre are given free reign to spew their poison reflects poorly on this self-described progressive forum and its moderators.