Re: Improper Selection of Forum Moderators

OK. I agree. Bill Goichberg is technically correct. The board did not
actually vote to restore this posting by Jerry Hanken, but that was
because Louis Blair, who was Chairman of the Forum Oversight
Committee, was on the line on the speaker phone while this issue was
being debated by the board, and he said that they were agreeing to
restore this posting. This made a formal vote unnecessary, especially
since the board wanted to avoid any vote of this sort.

Bill Goichberg is also correct that the posting by Jerry Hanken does
not contain the words "Susan Polgar is an Honorable Woman".

I want to thank Bill Goichberg for supplying the original text of the
Hanken article.

However, the point is that this posting had been deleted by the
moderators and, in spite of numerous complaints about this deletion,
the moderators had refused to reinstate it.

Now that we can read the posting, one can see that there was nothing
wrong with it. It was legitimate political commentary. The fact that
the moderators would delete such a posting and nothing could be done
to reinstate it until the board was on the verge of voting to
reinstate it is a good example of how the moderators were using their
positions to control political controversy and to influence the
results of the election.

Also it is im****tant to remember that this was the only one ever to be
reinstated. There were thousands of other equal legitimate postings
that were deleted by the USCF Issues Forum Moderators during the
election campaign that were never restored and have never been seen
again.

Sam Sloan