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Bornmann

Sorry, I didn't realize that I was editing over you. I hope that I didn't disrupt anything. --JGGardiner 19:47, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Do NOT delete other's posts on Talk pages

You are not an admin, and not even admins delete talkpage postings made by other editors. You are not a censor, though you are behaving one, and interpreting Wiki rules to suit yourself. The questions you deleted, and comments such as those I made, are not placed on the article page, but on the Talk page, as part of the discussion; rules for article content do NOT apply to talk page content. I reviewed your various edits and mutliple/repeated deletions/vandalisms in detail last night (nice thing about edit histories) and am going to seek to have you blocked for your deletions and vandalism, both in the article and in the talk page. If you're Erik Bornmann, you've seriously violated the "do not edit articles about yourself" guideline, also (your username may hide your IP address from the rest of us; it doesn't hide it from admins, and IPs can be traced down to individual desktops/networks; give your head a shake - if you are Bornmann, or one of his pals, then systematically vandalizing Misplaced Pages isa great way to get an article written on your attempts to silence criticism of your up-and-coming legal/political career. I leave it to you to restore my post, which you had no business in deleting. Would have been so much better if you'd had the cojones to respond. But like so many other political animals in this country, it's not about honesty, it's about covering things up, whatever the "things" are. If you don't like critical comments, you shouldn't be in politics. If you're not Erik Bornmann (but obviously have links to him) the existence of an information-suppression campaign in Misplaced Pages is being documented every time you make an edit/deletion/post, and by the look of all the shenanigans going on in the Ledgegate-related pages this is going to make a real nice article, which should reach print just as the Basi-Virk trials come underway and Bornmann is called to the stand. I'm not a journalist (have lots of friends who are, though) but seeing behaviour like yours really makes me wonder if it's necessary to take up the cause; since p.r. consultants and communications consultants are in the business of massaging truth into something else, while politicians are not in the business of truth at all. Not that journalists are, necessarily (cf. Gary Mason's puffpiece on Basi in the Globe).Skookum1 19:04, 27 December 2006 (UTC) I can see the headline now: "Bornmann blocked from Misplaced Pages for vandalism; efforts to censor truth about career kiboshed by Wiki admins". Oh, hell, I'm sure the Province will come up with something a lot pithier/catchier. I'm sure it'll be a feather in your political cap, if that's who you turn out to be....Skookum1 19:27, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

And by the look of Gardiner's comment above, it appears that you, Rascalpatrol, ARE in fact Erik Bornmann. So I suggest you use your Wiki-edit tools a little more carefully now. Misplaced Pages is a very big sandbox and while you and your pals can invoke legalities as a form of libel chill, all that does to the casual observer (and I'm actually non-partisan in this) is offend them, and make them think "where there's smoke there's fire". If you're innocent of wrongdoing, then there's no need to delete well-known and well-documented facts. And rather than deleting other's questions, if you had more integrity you'd seek to answer them; you wouldn't presume to DELETE THEM. Silencing opposition is a hallmark of authoritarian states, but also of Canadian political parties and their armies of consultants; the suppression of truth in this country is increasingly nauseating, whether it's being perpetrated by Tories, Grits, the RCMP, the courts, whomever, "even the CBC". We do not live in an open society, in a real democracy, and one of the reasons why is people like you who are interested only in their own skins, and not in the public good.Skookum1 19:35, 27 December 2006 (UTC)