Time to Address Comments Section on Frank Report – as We Ready for Larger, More Diverse Audience
Nxivm is pretty much shattered, although there are some remnants in Mexico and a few stragglers in the USA.
There may also be a group of covert Nxivm sympathizers out there, whom I am currently investigating.
For the most part, however, Nxivm doesn’t seem to be much of a threat to people. Frank Report is now covering other major topics. Nxivm posts are presently the minority of posts.
Therefore, it is time to amend our comments section, as we get ready for prime time.
When Nxivm was the main subject, I wanted a rough and tumble comments section, but now it’s time for civility, especially since so many voices in our nation seem uncivil and angry.
This is a time for less divisiveness and I am going to begin with the comments section and with some of the posts.
Not that Frank Report will be shy about covering controversial topics, but the times require healing voices, not angry voices.
Of course, I believe in free speech, but I do not believe, at least on my own website, that I have to tolerate all kinds of angry voices. These can migrate to other places where they are welcome.
We may see a drop in comments. But the number of comments has little to do with readership anyway. For example, the most viewed story of the last two weeks [Half of Facebook’s Censorship Board Has Ties to George Soros] has elicited only two comments.
What Is Not Acceptable:
Lunatic voices are not acceptable.
Offensive image ahead:
Clearly demented people will likely find little luck commenting here going forward.
Funny voices will always be welcome, however.
Unusual voices are welcome.
Best yet, are distinguished voices.
Frank Report will not publish comments that rudely criticize other commenters – with the possible exception of humorous criticism. I will either delete these or edit out the offending portion of the comment.
If any commenter makes a comment that they wish to be abused, I will then permit that. So, if two commenters, say, for example, Bangkok and Nice Guy, both agree to be abused, then they can abuse each other and, if it is, at least, reasonably humorous, I will approve it.
Otherwise, I will either delete or edit it.
When I edit a comment, I will indicate I have done so by using ellipses [….] and the word “redacted.”
Here are a few examples of what I will edit:
A commenter, whom many are familiar with, named Scott Johnson, made the following comment:
“The point that the ghost of Scott made is that often people don’t care about other people. LOL. Everyone got it except you, Mr. Shadow, so I am happy to point out the obvious to you. LOL.”
He was rude to another commenter, Shadow State. I have edited Scott’s comment as follows:
“The point that the ghost of Scott made is that often people don’t care about other people. LOL…. [redacted] LOL”
Another comment made, also by Scott, was fairly lengthy, erudite, and substantive. But, unhappily, it ended with an insult of another commenter, which was:
“What a pathetic life you have Mr. conspiracy…Your place is in a mental institute, definitely. — This is a true statement, but not for the reasons you stated. In fact, the same things are true about you as well. LOL.”
I simply deleted the last part but kept the rest of Scott’s comment. However, I removed from the body of the comment I did not delete the following:
yeah, sure Mr. nutjob… still not locked away in a mental facility I see
YOU, THE nutjob of the nutjobs, king of stupidity and lies and conspiracy
Mr. Shadow has little to no impact on others, other than being quite entertaining
Speaking of a nutjob
idiot
Another Example
A comment made by another valuable contributor, Nice Guy, was problematic based on the new standards.
I will put in bold the words I deleted.
“Shadow,
“Will you or will you not address the Boston segment of your article?
“Can you not engage in intelligent discord and debate?
“Is your diatribe hit-piece posts emblematic of who you are as man?
“Execrable or irascible?
“I thought you were a learned and educated man. I thought you were a man of consecrated conservative values.
“Lying is not a virtue.
“Avoiding the inconvenient truth when it questions your narrative and beliefs is cowardly.
“A man who prefers dogma over truth personifies hubris.
“The Black Lives liberals never said they wanted money for illegal aliens. I am not a fan of their agenda. Attributing false quotes to any group obfuscates the truth and stirs the cauldron of hate on both sides.
“How honorable can you be? You spread lies which you know are lies. You have no honor.”
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Lewd and Nasty
Another comment from Nice Guy, whom I genuinely enjoy as a commenter, required fairly heavy editing.
The original comment was directed at Scott Johnson:
That only only happens when I provide your wife with ORAL sex. I end up smelling and look nauseous. LOL
Now that may be funny to Scott and to Nice Guy and perhaps some others, but it is not really what I want to see going forward as we attract a wider and more diverse audience.
I edited the comment to
That only only happens when I provide [redacted] I end up smelling and look nauseous. LOL
I posted this picture of what I thought Nice Guy might look like. However, I have never seen him.
This kind of ribald humor was fine when our role was to do a takedown of a sex cult. It provided comic relief when we were reporting on gruesome and depressing topics like the branding and blackmailing of women.
But the expansion of Frank Report requires a little more refinement. That is not to say that there will never be ribald humor. But when it is directed at another commenter’s wife, a woman reputed to be of impeccable character, I think we ought not encourage it.
I know, critics may say, I have published indelicate humor in the past. I referred to the Society of Protectors as the Society of Cuckolds and I recall, during the battle with Nxivm, photoshopping some fairly insulting [but I thought funny] photos of the SOP men, with Raniere sleeping with their women.
Here are a couple of examples.
The original caption when published in 2017: The Connubial Boudoir of the coupling of DOS and SOP – By artist Joann of DOS
‘The exquisite imagery of the artist suggests that Mr. Raniere’s presence is figurative only. This is made clear by the initials K R not being at the woman’s pubic region but floating seemingly in mid-air – where it transmutes the branded wife to higher consciousness whereby the husband is not a cuckold but a DOS slave himself subordinate to the higher teachings of Master Raniere” – L. Worthington Hammerton, art critic.
The original 2017 caption: This is an artist’s conception: Keith Raniere [standing in shower left] teaches a beta male of The Society of Protectors [lower center on hands and knees ] and his DOS slave wife.
[2017 Caption] Society of Protectors male [left] in his traditional SOP uniform.
I published these fairly obscene images to try to awaken the men of SOP to the noxious concept that they were allowing themselves to be weaklings for Raniere while encouraging their wives to follow this perverted man.
No Racist Words
It goes without saying that racism is not acceptable, against any race. There are plenty of websites where it is acceptable.
In short, I want more civility and more expression of opposing views without hatred and anger and insulting each other.
Thanks.
I always try to source my most important allegations.
With the utter insanity sweeping the country right now who would believe that major politicians in Seattle and Washington State would help Anarchists take over a chunk of Seattle?
Or that officials in California would release sex offenders and arrest kids going to the beach?
The story about BLM in Boston came out of Breitbart.
But another source claims that BLM demanded that Boston divert money from the police to hire illegal aliens.
BLM Boston: Use Cash from Defunding Cops to Hire ‘Undocumented’ Workers… A Policy Which Leads to MORE Black Unemployment and Crime
Raynard JacksonJune 9, 20205 min read
Black Lives Matter (BLM) Boston seeks to sizably cut its city’s police budget and reappropriate $15 million in taxpayer funds – including those from black Americans – for an initiative to “hire undocumented young people” for thousands of summer and year-round jobs.
Undocumented workers and mass migration are a catalyst for wage depression and high unemployment plaguing black communities, as noted by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
o-authors George Borjas, Jeffrey Grogger, and Gordon Hanson wrote in a paper entitled ‘Immigration and African-American Employment Opportunities: The Response of Wages, Employment, and Incarceration to Labor Supply Shocks’:
The 1980-2000 immigrant influx, therefore, generally ‘explains’ about 20 to 60 percent of the decline in wages, 25 percent of the decline in employment, and about 10 percent of the rise in incarceration rates among blacks with a high school education or less.
Calls to “defund the police” have proliferated nationwide in the wake of George Floyd’s death, yet most BLM activists fail to outline what would happen if the radical stance was to materialize.
The Boston chapter of the left-wing mega-donor George Soros-funded organization, however, provides insight on what BLM hopes to reappropriate the funds for:
The City should fund $15 million for 5000 summer jobs and 1000 year-round jobs lasting from September to June, including hiring 14-22 year olds, hiring undocumented young people, and providing grants to organizations.
The funds would come from cutting “the police budget by 10% from $414 million to $372 million or less, including cutting at least $40 million from the Police Department’s $60 million overtime budget,” significantly less radical than most of BLM’s chapters.
Originally written by the Youth Justice & Power Union, the petition has amassed over 1,500 signatures.
Beyond BLM championing policies that often result in higher crime and homicide rates in black communities and obscuring the overwhelmingly more present phenomenon of black-on-black violence with the “myth of systemic police racism,” pushing for this wage-depressing policy is just the latest harmful policy the group has embraced.
Not to mention, the policy would grant tax dollars – even those from black Americans – to provide a steady income flow for individuals who aren’t even U.S. citizens.
President Barack Obama’s own Federal Commission on Civil Rights report, “The Impact of Illegal Immigration on the Wages and Employment Opportunities of Black Workers,” concluded:
…illegal immigration to the United States in recent decades has tended to depress both wages and employment rates for low-skilled American citizens, a disproportionate number of whom are black men.
This results from the fact that “about six in 10 adult black males have a high school diploma or less, and black men are disproportionately employed in the low-skilled labor market, where they are more likely to be in labor competition with immigrants.”
The National Bureau of Economic Research corroborated immigration’s detrimental impact on the prospects of black workers and even linked immigrant influxes to spikes in black incarceration.
It stated: “Why would a boost in immigration effectively put more men, especially black men, behind bars? The authors put forward a straightforward theory: immigration causes wages and employment to fall for black workers. When this happens, some of those workers — especially those with the lowest skills — turn to crime to increase their income.”
Left-wing Politico magazine even conceded: “But because a disproportionate percentage of immigrants have few skills, it is low-skilled American workers, including many blacks and Hispanics, who have suffered most from this wage dip.”
Contrary to BLM’s narrative, black workers and wages do matter, and should not be sacrificed at the alter of socialism for the sake of political posturing.
Natalie Winters contributed to this report
https://thenationalpulse.com/politics/blm-undocumented-workers/
Here's a petition from Google Documents
DEFUND THE POLICE. INVEST IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND YOUTH JOBS.
If you can, please visit — this is where we are collecting new petition signatures! (If you have a problem finding the petition there, you can still sign it here.)
Police murders of Black people across the country reflect the larger violence that police departments and prisons commit against Black communities every day. We need to defund police departments across the country and reinvest in Black and Brown communities. Just as Minneapolis groups are demanding a $45 million cut to the police budget to reinvest in community-led health and safety, we must move funds from the Boston Police Department back into Boston communities.
We demand that Mayor Marty Walsh cut the police budget by 10% from $414 million to $372 million or less, including cutting at least $40 million from the Police Department's $60 million
overtime budget. Those funds should be reinvested in the needs of Black and Brown communities, including providing housing and jobs to people released from prison.
In addition, we demand that funds are reinvested in youth jobs during a global pandemic and economic crisis. The City should fund $15 million for 5000 summer jobs and 1000 year-round jobs lasting from September to June, including hiring 14-22 year olds, hiring undocumented young people, and providing grants to organizations. Mayor Walsh, CFO Emme Handy, and Director Justin Sterritt: meet with young people immediately to discuss protecting young people
this summer!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdZoznJ5F7QnSopYpdwnBq2oA8DMoWzFoPAc_h8v20DhouZ-g/viewform?fbclid=IwAR0GIizVloBIvznhyxzvTmLRjxzlpcCCI2l0XD2V28nYNWITXfLSDJrlZKo