As I've stated in other posts, I'm here to learn and share. Part of my Fender and musical experience is to discuss life altogether, everything music -- life, the basis of all songs. History and current events effect my Fender experience, my music, my lyrics, and my poetry, so I believe I'm firmly within in the policies (loosely written rules) of the site when discussing history and current events, even politics as politics effects everything, including Fender and music.

Can I discuss and discern this information elsewhere in relation to *my* musical and Fender experience? No, because my peers are here on the Fender forum and others have complimented me for my contributions, contributions others complain about.

Do my posts interfere with the site? I believe not. We all have the choice to either read or not read a thread. Some stuff offends me, but you don't hear me complaining to Fender if something offends me as I respect everybody's right to free speech.

Whenever the good ol' boys rant about political topics they don't agree with, that's them interfering with information they simply disagree with or are in denial over, their motives are clearly political in nature. Cow-towing to them and censoring relevant information I present is political in and of itself and therefore contradicts the "rules" because their political whims interfere with my relevant contributions to the overall forum.

Some good-hearted people engage in topics they don't expect to go the direction they lead to and then complain. If they don't want controversy, they should think about what they are posting before they create a thread or post in a thread.

In yet another locked thread, even Brad mentions there were zero complaints, plus people complimented me for my contributions. The thread was and is obviously interesting relevant to our Fender and musical experience but the thread got locked anyways. This is sad, so sad.

Again, this is all about free speech and everything music and everything Fender.

Let freedom ring.

I think the solution is; if you don't like a topic that relates to your musical experience, find another thread that does. Locking threads because somebody disagrees with issues raised, that's fascist censorship and clear violation of our free speech and the forum policies!

Some moderators just kill threads like that and while that does work I don't know that it is the only solution.

I also have the right to expect those threads not be locked in the spirit of free speech, correct?

I remain convinced that religious and political discussions have no rightful place here. In fact I would prefer it if Brad were to change the wording in the rules from "strongly discouraged" to "prohibited".