I should seriously start paying more attention, I find that when I am reading forums and see stuff that's not to interest to me I glance over it not taking note, but clearly there are a few posts of Davey I must have missed to get this kind of backlash.
I only had one incident where a regular member took something I said out of context and made me out to be a idiot, I replied and let the water run of my back, worst is I cant even remember who the member was and would probably have a beer with him at a meet.
I get "people" sometimes more than I should. I acknowledge there is very different takes on things, but I still feel one should not feel that you can not voice your opinions on a forum, all news sites have disclaimers"the views expressed by the readers are not necessarily the views of this publication/editor/organisation"
I had to laugh as the racist thing is quite funny.
I am a proudly white South African, therefore I am a racist is a view most ignorant people in the UK shared. I actually retort with jokes to diffuse the situation. IE: I dont hate blacks every white man should own one, etc.. In fact if anyone bothered to get to know me they will find out I am far from racist and shared my life with both white and black friends, but for me they are friends not labelled by color.
The irony here is if I have to be completely honest, lets say I am a racist so we dislike blacks...since coming here I have met some racists that would make the most right winged fanatic look mild. The uk racists hates everyone!! Chinese, pakistani,black,muslim....sheesh at least we only get labelled hating one race.
Since coming to the UK and being exposed to more of the world I have to be honest, but my views on Muslims has changed dramatically.
Now the other side of my family are German, My grandfather was a Waffen SS Panzer Commander and I am bloody proud of this, again society would tell me not to be because what the Germans did, again forgetting most Germans were just obeying orders, at war time refusing a order is treason and immediate execution, unfortunately I will never know what my granddads views were as by the time I had enough brains to want to talk to him he was a damaged man, his brain was letting go of his body faster than he was aging.
As I could not find forum rules on the site, maybe someone can point me to them if I missed it? Davey has broken no rules except for pissing some people off, if we are going to ban people for pissing people off then this forum is no longer for me. If the forum has clear rules in place and a member chose to disobey the rules fair enough ban him, because having rules means the member has read them and decided to join the forum.
As said in my previous posts, I love biking and bikers because of our diversity, if we go down this road...
I voted no to the ban as I do not know the man behind the name.
Simply some people on the forums I would love to meet, ie: Pow Low Andybird, Wolfie as they are come across as solid and nice blokes in real life they might be nobs...who knows, then when I first joined I dunno why but I thought Ianrobbo was a nob..cant remember the details why(might be the red bike), then I met Ian...what a bloody nice guy, he went out of his way to help me when I was in need without ever meeting me, a true gent and biker and I am proud to say a friend!! I am now glad I met him and a few others on here.
Well thats my 2 cents worth.