Prima fascism

You gotta spread the word about this blog. This blog is one of the most strident voices of working-class populism out there to counter the wingnutosphere's bigotry and greed, so - despite our rapid growth - we still need to bring in business.

This is especially true because this blog is being blackballed because of its views. Legal-like types would say the proof of this is prima facie (pronounced "PRY-muh FAY-shee"), which means this assertion is self-evident.

The old Conservative Fool Of The Day blog had an entry on Brian Crall - a Kentucky crackpot who introduced the state's Rockefeller drug law against cold medicine, was investigated in Ernie Fletcher's corruption scandal, and illegally mailed out envelopes showing state employees' Social Security numbers in plain sight. The comment section of Crall's entry was flooded by the head of Partnership for a Drug Free Kentucky, who praised Crall for his drug law. I can't count the number of times this commenter said something to the effect of, "'Prima facie' means 'on its face.'"

His argument was that if a person had more than 24 grams of cold medicine, it was prima facie evidence of intent to cook meth. This man's attempt at mind-reading was laughed at by about 15 different commenters. He was misusing the term to justify deeming someone guilty without even proving it.

If anything is prima facie, it's the evidence that The Online Lunchpail is being blacklisted. If you search on engines like Google or AltaVista, you find hardly any mentions of this blog except on the blog itself. I don't blame the search engines. Rather, I think - actually know - that someone is gaming the system to have this blog suppressed.

I know how many hits the 'Pail gets daily, and although it's a decent number, it's nowhere close to what it should be - considering that, although it's not the only populist-leaning blog, it's probably the only one that dares to publicly recognize the Spittle Doctrine (a concept with widespread support outside the blogosphere), and this blog has at least several entries a day.

As even more solid proof we're being shunned, peep Wikipedia. I'm not saying every person or website who's ever existed should get a Wikipedia entry, but there's certainly a bias by the volunteers who have been allowed to infiltrate the reader-edited encyclopedia. The 'Pail once had an entry. It was quickly deleted - despite the fact that every teensy-weensy right-wing blog or blogger that you can think of had a detailed entry, no matter how minor or how laughable the blog was.

Based on prima facie evidence, the fact of the matter is that there's a concerted right-wing effort to suppress this blog. It's a racket, if you will. There's no doubt in my mind about it.

This was long the case with The Last Word: I remember the deletions of The Last Word that Nazi ISP admins refused to do anything about (because they considered these deletions to be free speech).

It boils down to a powerful clique of fascists being terrified of the free flow of ideas. The problem has gone on for years. It was an issue when I had my first Internet account in 1995, and I'm sure it's a bigger issue now.

So spread the word about this blog. We're in this fight together, workers of America and the world.