To Our Readers

We're letting you guys and gals know that we've been censoring a lot of the comments being submitted for publication lately. They seem to be falling into a couple of categories:

• People using the words "savages" and "animals" in contexts that can't be construed as anything but in a derogatory manner.
• Liberals, left-tards and loonies spouting their standard tripe about "Bush lied, people died," "blood for oil," the economy is in the tank, blah blah blah, and the blanket anti police baiting
  
• Lately, anything by "coldtype" or someone calling themselves "Chris Morton"

We walk a pretty fine line here. We try to give everyone the ability to say what they want to on a subject at hand. We automatically censor any of the really naughty terms regarding certain races (i.e. nigger, spic, etc), certain genders (i.e. cunt, whore, etc) , certain behaviors (i.e. all of x's are this or that along with the faggot references). Recently, we're censoring a lot of stuff with the terms "savages" and "animals." We are aware that these are so-called "code words" among various groups to describe some elements of society and we are attempting to filter those out. Where the words are used generically to describe behaviors, we've been giving it a pass more often than not. Like we've said, it's a fine line and we don't know that we aren't erring on one side or the other more often than not. We do our best.

The liberal stuff, we've been filtering out because it contributes nothing to the debate, repeats lies and faulty arguments and just generally annoys us. Our blog, our rules. We've been linked by various liberal blogs as examples of the worst in the CPD. Once again, for the benefit of these tiny brains, the only people here that we know for a fact are Chicago Police Officers are the ones running the blog. Anyone else we have no idea (except for those guys using the HQ IP address - we're pretty sure they're the police, too). We have readers on SIX continents - only Antarctica has neglected to visit.

As for the last category, the poster called "coldtype" has continued to annoy us, repeating tired arguments and lies from the DU and Kos, taking contrarian positions just to provoke, and generally just being an asshat. Anything under his moniker is hereby banned for the time being. He has his own blog and readers - he can publish his nonsense there. Good luck finding it. We're sure coldtype be writing us a nasty comment that no one will ever see and will attempt to publish some stuff anonymously. Some of it might even slip through our screening. But as long as he doesn't get credit for it, we don't care.

Same goes for this "Chris Morton" character. He exists solely to rip Chicago police officers. We don't know if he got shot down by an officer he was trying to date, got locked up by us at some point, or had a relative interrogated by Burge. He is a media driven creation that believes every fiction published about the CPD and refuses to acknowledge that there are thousands of police officers here and nationwide doing a thankless job for an uncaring populace. Every little nitpicking law that the mayor and city council pass is the fault of the CPD according to this putz. Every time the media blows something out of proportion, his only chant is "Abbate, Abbate - you guys defend Abbate" while complete disregarding the fact that the vast majority of our readership advocated his firing. If we recall correctly, he too has a blog somewhere. Maybe he can get together with coldtype and they can read each other's ramblings. But you won't be reading it here anytime soon.