Enough is enough
this is a politically rough and ready forum - that's expected, it comes with the territory and in a way, it can be stimulating.
When people start questioning something as serious as the state of their opponent's mental health is a different ball game altogether.
I don't have a lot of regard of what Bobad has to say - he is not particularly imaginative and tends to just repeat what others put up and confines the rest of his contributions to screeching insults at those who don't agree with him
Ake is a different matter altogether - he has questioned my sanity on half a dozen occasions now, and each time he has disappeared without being prepared to qualify his serious and deeply personal insulting behaviour.
A bridge too far, as far as I'm concerned.
If he had a shred of decency, he would withdraw what he has repeated over and over again, and apologise - or qualify his serious accusations with some examples of my mental problems.
I know, and he knows, that if he made such accusations off-line he would be liable to legal action, and if he behaved to anybody face to face he would run the serious risk of a smack in the mouth - nobody in their right mind accuses somebody of having mental problems unless they are qualified to make such an accusation.
He has already had one thread closed of late for his obsessive hatred of homosexuals and it seems that unfair that he is allowed to close another.
He won't apologise of course, nor will he withdraw his statements - he doesn't do that sort of thing.
Nor will he answer any of the arguments on any of the subjects he involves himself in - he doesn't do that sort of thing either.
If he or Bobad ever wade in the gutter with such personal insults again I will ask that they be expelled from this forum - as serious as some of us take these subjects, that is not what debating should be about.
I can put up with Bobad's mindless shrieking of "antisemite" - nobody other than his small circle of friends takes him seriously, and I suspect they find him an embarresment sometimes, but, as I said Ake is another matter, particularly because he takes himself seriously - spooky or what!!
As I said - enough is enough
Jim Carroll