yep, that article certainly stinks, just as much as the anonymous jerk who posted it to the newswire, hoping to force this imc offline. the newswire policy was specifically amended so we could take down crap like that.

you can't point at a single post made by a provocateur and say that is what everyone who uses this imc believes. this newswire is specifically set up to allow people to post their stories anonymous, if they so chose. it's sad that a few people seek to abuse that anonymity, whether to slander others or to discredit this forum.

why pay any more attention to the juvenile post of an anonymous coward? whether you like this imc or not, you do yourself little credit by refering to content that is intentionally misleading and deceptive.

Julius Augustus: I tried clicking on that link to that anti-cop post on stlimc, but it has been taken down (curiously). But I found that the St. Louis CofCC copied it word for word, save three letters of a certain four-letter word these people seem to like so much:

countenance.wordpress.com/2006/02/03/the-first-embers/

This blogger didn't copy any comments though. Like this site's admin says above, this is probably a lone nutcase, and perhaps a lot of the comments to this post were boos and hisses.

Come to think of it, if I remember right, this post made local TV news.

That newswire post has indeed been finally deleted, as per the posting policy. Normally, content which runs counter this policy can be "hidden," which means that it is no longer available on the public newswire column.

However, renewed links to this post (such as the one above), do little to promote this imc as an open forum free of abuse, and so it was finally deleted.

Indeed, that very post prompted our creating the current posting policy in the first place.