America now honors one of its greatest non-conformists who withstood great condemnation and was ruthlessly silenced before the truth he fearlessly spoke was widely acknowledged, and the creator and supporters of what was the only protected space for non-violent free speech at wacco, the Red Pill Roundtable, are very saddened by what its recent silencing represents.
To the Wacco Community and Barry,
Supporters of the Red Pill Roundtable (RPR) are gathering in unity to bring to the community's attention numerous ways in which protected non-violent free speech, community diversity and respect for privacy are not being supported at wacco, and how these unsupportive practices are both being condoned and practiced by it's moderator Barry who has repeatedly called this faction of the community 'loonies and nutjobs' yet declares his forum motto to be a 'Connected Conscious Community'.
Did you even know RPR existed? Maybe not because Barry refused to put it in the digest and few knew they had to 'opt-in' to get any of it's postings.
A little background... Alex, an original wacco member and 3-year co-moderator asked Barry to let her create the 'Red Pill Roundtable' as a protected category for the non-conformist members who saw things differently than Barry and those who shared his mainstream opinions, to discuss non-mainstream topics. A condition was that it be kept completely free of the members who always ridiculed the topics without ever first trying to understand the reasons the people posting found convincing before responding, and/or used other condescending, disrespectful behaviors that Barry not only tolerated but always thanked.
The Red Pill Roundtable category was finally launched March 20, 2015, though Alex's purpose for RPR was to create a supportive space to seek answers to disturbing questions, while Barry's purpose was to have a place to isolate and confine conspiracy theorists.
"Let's get going on the red pill. I'm losing patience for the kind of stuff below in the regular categories...."
-Barry to Alex about a post suggesting exaggerated media panic about Ebola
The Red Pill Category never gained traction from the feeling of pointlessness to post where no one one was looking, but it did no harm, and achieved showing how respectful true open-minded discussion could be. Suddenly without any respect or consideration for those who cared, on March 19, 2016 Barry suddenly silenced and eliminated both 10-year member Alex and the entire Red Pill Roundtable Category.
Email Spying: Additionally, this past year we also learned that Barry has been intercepting, spying on and not forwarding some members' private emails. This means no one at wacco can ever know Barry is not spying on them too - and it's spying on both the sender and receiver. These are the same shadow side tactics appearing right in our faces that RPR was so dedicated to exposing in the macrocosm.
In unity we are expressing our great disappointment at how disrespectfully the non-conformists in this community have long been treated at wacco and for the censoring and privacy intrusions taken against us. Many other non-conformists noticed the same patterns and left because of it, and we suspect participation in RPR would have been much greater had it not been hidden.
Regardless of how small we are, it is a significant and disturbing act to silence any non-conformists raising valid questions. We suspect that Martin would have agreed.
Alex to Barry 3-19-16:[I] My RPR moderating tools suddenly disappeared from one minute to the next. Are you really breaking our agreement and rudely making this unnecessary, destructive and dictatorial move?
Barry to Alex 3-19-16 Yes I am
The supporters of the Red Pill Roundtable sincerely thank all it's participants, supporters and potential supporters who never even knew it was there for anything big or small you ever do to stand for truth despite any inconveniences.
We invite any other advocates of non-violent, protected free speech,tolerance for community diversity and reliable privacy to add your name in support of this statement and/or share any wacco experiences of your own regarding these topics.
In Unity,
Shandi
Comodin
Conservationalist
Alex, RPR Creator and Moderator