SV650.org - SV650 & Gladius 650 Forum - Anti freedom of thought posts

I am bored, I mean bored damn silly, with reading anti-freedom of thought threads on here. It's not what I come on here for. They're from the same people, time and time again. OK I know what you think and where you're coming from. You're entitled to your views. And I'm entitled to mine.

Course, I don't have to read them. But why shouldn't I? I make a few comments on some of them, just a few mind, to indicate that I have fairly well though out views. But the current one just sticks in my craw.

Some people seem to do their best to mis-represent what others have posted; by summarising their supposed thoughts and intentions in one mind numbingly boring thread - rhetoric at work (Note to Jelster: THIS is rhetoric at work.)

Examples of this are the use of terms such as Anti-British/Anti-US - so have we got to the stage already, that anyone who criticises the decision making behind 'police-state' actions such as the shooting of two innocent men.... are branded as Anti-British?? That is something that some people should take a long hard think about....... sounds crazy, but it is certainly the case here.

Some people say that they are 'so fed up with teh establishment being bashed' - well that is great, and completely their perogitive. But why the need to create a new thread just to say this. I mean, this is a bike forum god damnit.

Take the paragraph below as a fine example of this rhetoric:

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And then I read of British soldiers court-martialled for trying to do the impossible job of keeping the peace in a country that has only known savagery and fear for so long. Of their colleagues butcherered by a bloodthirsty mob at a police station in Basra, or blown up by a roadside bomb, simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Some of them lived close to here. And it makes me sick. And selfish me is glad that I'm not there, glad that I don't live in that hell-hole with all the chaos that so many brave British and American soldiers are doing their best to prevent, in the teeth of the most fervent and passionate opposition by people who post on forums such as this which can't logically be an appropriate place for their spleen, hate and fury, people who are following their own agenda for reasons best known to themselves, so that I can enjoy my fabulous British motorcycle that runs on Iraqi oil (after all, that was the purpose of the war wasn't it, so that I can continue to ride my bike on the cheap and on the back of other peoples' suffering, no???)

A typical troll tactic, to help represent their own agenda whilst seemingly diminishing the cause of another.... Over simplification of an opponents argument. Yes, I agree, it reads very nicely and even made me chuckle a little. But really, if you have to resort to spelling out your own agenda whilst mocking another. Lol, just lol.

But I agree with the sentiment of the statement quoted above...... it is a terrible waste that British soldiers are dying every week in atrocities such as shootings and bombings. And what is even sadder, is that these people are dying on a weekly basis fighting a war that was and is unnecasery. I find it slightly unnerving that you are quite capable of feeling sadness at these deaths, whilst at the very same time defending the state and the cause of the deaths. True rhetoric at work.