[jimworcs]

I think we are getting diverted from the issue. To be honest, if Butch was making that link up, it takes a lot of imagination to have picked such an obscure point of reference, and kudos to his vivid imagination. Phxflyer may have been playing with the skateboarder, may be playing with everyone on this board or Butch might be playing games. It is the internet, so you should always have a healthy amount of scepticism about anything you read on these forums.. in the end, what difference does it make?

Butch, I am not anti you or pro-Phx. I am pro-debate and feel that speech should be protected unless there is an overwhelming reason not too. The obscene and childish postings by Walnut et al needed to be banned because they were nuisance, spamming type posts and contributed nothing.

Both you and phx overstepped the mark when the debate got heated, and I have no quarrel with the moderator exercising control over that. You were wrong to post phx's personal email in the public forum. Phx was wrong to get so overheated that he posted abusive private and public messages to the mods and other posters.

But why is it necessary for people to launch into demands that each get banned from the forum. By all means suspend, issues warnings and if the behaviour doesn't change then as a last resort ban. The internet is one of the few truly free forums for debate, is highly democratic and limiting debate should always be a last resort.

Frankly, whether phx has been an airline employee or not is neither here nor there.