Political! The Delete Button is your option. Mary and Pam, You have done it now. However, I rather expected it - if for no other reason than you need to devote your efforts to ALHN. Still the reasons for your leaving the TNGenWeb Project are obviously deeply involved in Dr B’s actions regarding the banishment of the "four." It is also sad to note that the banishment occurred during a USGenWeb Project election period. Because the action involved an open, not required, mailing list use by the USGenWeb Project and is not any in any sense an official organ of our state project, the banishment should not have reached into our state unit. In fact, very few of our TGW volunteers subscribe to that list. With that being said, Pam was also blocked from posting to our closed state CC list - a list that she was required to use. Now that does involve our state project! And your removal of your outstanding Johnson Co. TN page certainly is great loss for our state unit. It has been suggested to me that Dr. B has made great contributions to the USGenWeb Project and I make no claims otherwise. I have been told that the last event that caused the banishment may have been "the straw that broke the camel’s back," and that may be so. But that is not the point here. The point really is, the banishment is censorship. To stifle the voice of dissent is to stifle the voice of freedom, the voice of America. None of us really like to hear criticisms of our actions and the voices of the dissenter can be very annoying. Yet one synonym for the word dissenter is "protestant." All of us genealogists know what that means. Dissidence is in our blood. It is our right! Our forefathers earned that right for us. Fred Smoot