When President Bush announced Negroponte's appointment to the UN shortly after coming to office, it was met with scattered protest. Some critics asserted that the administration intentionally arranged the deportation from the United States of several former Honduran death squad members who could have provided damaging testimony against Negroponte in his Senate confirmation hearings.
One of the deportees was General Luis Alonso Discua, founder of Battalion 3-16. In the preceding month, the U.S. government had revoked the visa of Discua, who was Honduras's Deputy Ambassador to the UN. After returning to Honduras, Discua stated that, in 1983, he had been brought to the United States to spend two months organizing Battalion 3-16.
Nothing but negative comments about Negroponte. Seems to be the Democrats' latest new tool of choice to go after Republicans.
If you don't know what Wikipedia then you're in for a surprise. Wikipedia, a free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
I'm sure more will be added to further discredit Negroponte's February 17, 2005 naming as Director of National Intelligence.
And hey, it isn't La Shawn's fault who wanted her name removed from Wikipedia. It's not some Liberal agenda to have her name removed from Wikipedia's site. She personally wanted it to be removed and for obvious reasons. From Wikipedia on La Shawn Barber:
Her witty editorials have gained her notoriety and hatred from liberals.
You can't really say it's a truly objective online "encyclopedia" seeing comments like that. It's more like editorial commentaries than an encyclopedia. So, Wickedpedia is more like it. The Ultra Free Editable World Online Encyclopedia. Watch where you step.
UPDATE: Wikipedia has gotten words from "voters" on the "yea" or "nay" to have Wikipedia on La Shawn Barber deleted. Not a Liberal conspiracy here even though La Shawn wanted to see it gone in the first place. What's worse is seeing on the vitriolic comments on her.
How quaint and democratic this whole thing is when it's La Shawn Barber that Wikipedia ought to listen to...not the voters. But it's wickedly laughable to read these voters' inane postings (see the first link below), man. Wickedpedia Rules! Not for long though.
A request has been made on Wikipedia for this article to be deleted in accordance with the deletion policy.
This request is being discussed to form a consensus whether this is, or could be, an article appropriate for Wikipedia. Please see this page's entry on the votes for deletion page for details. Also see possible outlets for removed articles. If you feel deletion is not justified by Wikipedia deletion policy you may vote against its deletion. Please do not remove this notice or blank this page while the question is being considered. However, you are welcome to continue editing this article and improve it, especially if you can address the concerns of those who believe the article should be deleted. Should you improve the article and address the concerns of those who believe the article should be deleted, please remark on this page's entry regarding its improvement.
UPDATE 2: Things are going sidewise here on the voting process to keep or delete La Shawn Barber's Wickedpedia commentaries in an otherwise online "encylopedia":
Tentative - Keep and cleanup. Seems notable, but I can't say for sure. The fact that she doesn't like Wikipedia or want to be in it should have no bearing on whether we have an article—if you blog and write newspaper columns then you lose your right to complain about other people commenting on you. TenOfAllTrades Talk 17:48, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
So, La Shawn Barber lost her right to object as a blogger? And he's calling Wickedpedia on La Shawn Barber an "article"? It's an online, EDITABLE, encyclopedia you dimwits!! Maybe we should revist Howard Dean's latest gaffe and hopefully somebody's head will get screwed on straight the second time.
UPDATE 3: Too bad La Shawn Barber's is not on Wickedpedia's "Most Vandalized Pages." It would add a bit of extra notoriety for La Shawn. You can even see that President Bush (see the latest tape recording addition) and P.M. Blair are not immune to Wickedpedia's weakness to constant revisions and negative attacks. There is even a "Neutrality" objection at the beginning of President Bush' Wickedpedia's page.
The neutrality of this article is disputed.Please see the relevant discussion on the talk page.
Check out the "Vandalism" report page. Check out the pages vandalized by a "Mr. Treason," also. This kind of reminds me of stalkers to a degree. Leftist Loony Bins everywhere.
UPDATE 4: Yep. Loony Bins everywhere. There is now a blogsite dedicated to "expose" La Shawn Barber in "La Shawn Barber, Exposed." One anonymous, how nice, poster makes a comment:
The discussion of her entry has set off a firestorm of comments on Wikipedia. Nothing like this occured on Rush Limbaugh, Little Green Footballs or DailyKos. Her minions are voting but Wikipedia isn't a blog -- you need to register and set up an account or your vote is considered 'sock puppets' (their term).
So ... our self-crowned star may find herself on the wrong end of a Barber-gate scandal!
Barber-gate? Might want to try Wickedpedia-gate. Now, why is that Liberal Lefties go after successful people of various races outside of the Caucasin circle? Condoleeza Rice? Gonzalez? Colin Powell? Michelle Malkin? And yet this guy who is going after La Shawn Barber says:
in part to suggest that my differences with ms. barber are not personal, but positional
Positional? And he/she has a website to go after La Shawn Barber? Yet this blogger is anonymous. Very brave.
Yep, Leftist Racist Loony Bins everywhere!
4 comments:
Thanks for the "crusade," Mike. Things are definitely getting strange. Would tell whoever is "in charge" to delete the entry?
--La Shawn, formerly of Wikipedia
I wouldn't know who to contact regarding the deletion of your Wickedpedia page. Hmmm...unfortunately seems like Jimmy Wales is the owner and has this comment:
Jimmy Wales - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Jimmy Wales created this site and other Wiki products. He ownz your soul, along with Gates and Wal*Mart. You have been warned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales
Sounds like no such luck in getting him to recant?
La Shawn's situation really blew up quickly over there. Odd.
More discussion occuring here.
Tae, do you actually believe that Wikipedia is a neutral-free content of information on individuals (i.e. political) when it is entirely editable by people from outside from all forms of persuasion? And for Wikipedia to claim to be an "online encyclopedia" is nothing but laughable. There is no control over content when everybody can literally get their hands on to constantly revise and change the contents (for the good or worse). Or haven't you seen the vandalism page by Wickedpedia? They know they have a problem...a serious one. And Wickedpedia's concept of this type of "encylopedia" is basically not sound.
She has every right to request that her name be removed from a site that has a serious "neutrality" problem. That's a different story altogether.
The other story of what you don't like about her is another one, too. And for you to say on your website that yours is not "personal" but "positional" can be, too, seen as seriously questionable. With a title of your blogsite, diatribes that borders on frothing, picture of La Shawn with splinters into her eyes (do you have planks in your eyes? gotta be careful there), poking fun of her....all these reminds me of anonymous stalker here with the subject being "La Shawn Barber." A vendetta "positional" in the make on your part is what I see (plus hoping to generate a bit of traffic on your part, too?). This is my perception. I could be wrong but that's my first impression. I've yet to read all of your blogs. Give me time.
You have your perception of La Shawn, and La Shawn has her own perception and opinion of what she sees and feel out there. Everybody's free to criticize but when somebody becomes a single focal point of a person's life in their blogs....that's a red flag on my part. But that's my opinion. And I hope that if there is any inequity on La Shawn's part that you've discovered and with any intellectual honesty you display will La Shawn acknowledge her errors. But I doubt she'll change her mind when people act like that around her.
Would you?
Good luck on your blogging.
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