A Survey of COTO members - Why are you here?

Everyone here has a story of how they got to COTO. An unknown number of us were banned from oped, so make this posting your forum to give your side of the story, not the contorted version of Rob Kall and his sidekick Steve the Leser. It would be great to hear from everyone, and even with some transparency about the pecking order here, just so the members know who the CMFIC's of COTO are.

As far as I know, the acronym COTO was created by the infamous, nefarious, and brilliant Mr M in a comment on oped. Coalition of the obvious. Basically it was everyone out there who were questioning the same things, especially the events of 911 and coming to far more sinister conclusions about who's pulling the strings in this country. Btw, M is with us again under another name. I'll let him identify himself, should he choose to.

For myself, Rob gave me no warning. None of my comments had ever been rejected or even flagged. Other writers seemed to like what I had to say. What was the fuss? Well, I think it was one day when Rob was having one of his pity potty moments and was writing something under an article about gmo's... ruminating about life while eating a bowl of wheat chex. (Breakfast of chumpians?) I jumped all over him, saying how can he possibly think out of the box when he's got his nose stuck in one? I didn't even think that semi-enlightened beings still ate that shit. Besides being junk toyfood, it's also a byproduct of mega farming and monsanto, etc. Anyway, I think I might have ruffled his dander. He's pretty thin skinned - he can dish it out just great, but he can't take any back in return. Plus he holds grudges and has a tendency to be short with people. Eh? So what. Maybe in the end he did us all a favor... we're here together and I think we're going to do something great. A new paradigm in exposure and solutions.

So backing up a bit, what got me booted? Get a load of this...

"this comment did it. The managing editors made a decision. rob"

"What the heck did you folks think you were going to get? Jesus with melanin?  We've got a black body, and even darker soul. He's souled out - get the picture? Obama's just another MIC corporate shill with a gift for gab. And a teleprompter aided one at that. The illuminati puppeteers are pulling the strings, as always. When are all you obamanatis going to wake up? Vote 3rd party, and push for Jesse Ventura - a man of balls and straight talk!"

Geez, now I believed I was being pretty cool about my Obama comment. I was only calling the kettle black and bleak like it is. My only guess is that I committed a fatal "thought crime." It never occurred to me that anyone would take it as a racial slur. That was the last thing on my mind. It was intended as a slight to his flock of sheeple. But as they say in the new age, "to each his om." Anyway, lets hear from the rest of you folks at COTO. Aye, mates... speak up!

Aloha,
cinderfella