[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

No, you obviously labour to understand my posts - despite the lucidity with which I write.

I clearly did not attempt to define your post or your opinion as redundant - merely the relevant parts of it which clearly were, and which I clearly defined. The rest of your post I actually said that I "agreed with" and "genuinely understood" and I even underscored the word genuinely.

I only took you off my ignore list because despite us agreeing to ignore each other's posts you breached that agreement by responding to one of my posts and obviously addressing that response to me, even though you did not use my name. What's more, my post which you responded to was neither directly addressed to, or directed at you - and still I answered your response very civilly and with clarity as I always do, but already you are starting again with the misrepresentation and the thinly veiled edge in your response so I see that taking you off my ignore list was a great mistake.

Now before you report this innocuous and reasoned response and have it removed - I will ask you again not to respond to my posts and quote them and to please put me on your ignore list and I will immediately put you back on mine.

Thank you.

Kirk, Kizzy didn't quote your post (so i don't know how you saw her post if you had her on ignore?) But even if she had, this is the serious debate section, everyone is perfectly entitled to quote anyone they wish, if they want to make a point. You of course, are under no obligation to respond to that post.

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Democracy is just a vision that counties aspire to. There is not a single country in the world that truely practices democracy. Among the worst offenders are the USA and UK who maintain they have wonderful democracies when they are nothing of the sort.

Democracy is a matter of degree. Each country practices democracy as it best fits their needs and objectives. It truely angers me when the USA and UK set themselves up as the standard bearers of democracy when their corruption is hidden from view. At least with the likes of Russia, there is no pretence, everyone knows what they are dealing with.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Kirk, Kizzy didn't quote your post (so i don't know how you saw her post if you had her on ignore?) But even if she had, this is the serious debate section, everyone is perfectly entitled to quote anyone they wish, if they want to make a point. You of course, are under no obligation to respond to that post.

Thank you Niamh.

I often browse Tibb without logging in and that's when I saw Kizzy's post which clearly - because of what she writes and comments upon - was a response to my post. She did actually quote directly from my post with "Lawyers with briefcases etc", and the fact that I posted at 8.43 am and then Kizzy posted directly after my post at 9.16 am is also telling.

But the above is not the problem Niamh. What is the problem is that although I responded to Kizzy's response, civilly and reasonably, her reply was nothing more than a deliberate misrepresentation of my response and that very thing is what caused most of the trouble between us before - something I do not wish to undergo again.

Anyone checking what I wrote against what Kizzy alleges what I wrote will clearly see just what I am talking about.

I realise that this is the Serious Debate section Niamh and that everyone is perfectly entitled to quote anyone they wish, if they want to make a point, but continual misrepresentation of what one has said in a post is not debate at all, and neither is it fair.

As for me being under no obligation to respond to that post, I am compelled to respond to any post which misrepresents what I have said, if only to redress the misrepresentation, because no one likes to be falsely quoted - especially on a Serious Debate section.

Anyway, I am not falling out with anyone, merely politely and reasonably requesting someone who seems incapable of understanding what I write and who therefore continually misrepresents me, to please put me on her ignore list and refrain from quoting my posts in the interests of forum harmony and I will reciprocate.

I do not believe that I am asking too much or that I am wrong to ask.