To OEN management- A statement of discontent

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Dear Rob and  managing editors. I have just found out that several authors known as COTO  have been apparently banned from the site.  I have names of Rady Ananda and Mr.M. here.  Unfortunately I had no chance to track others. This purge if it really happened seems  to be  a very wrong way to do things, at least as it seems to  me. I have read the articles of those people as well as their comments. Most of those were informative, decent and also very courageous, especially when Bush was in  power. Morover, the ONE and ONLY  criteria by which the writer can be assessed is ABSENCE OF MALICE and  on my word of honor I state that I NEVER saw any malice in the writings of the COTO  people. I thus feel obligated to express my deep discontent and   my  desire  that those people should be reinstated. We need all people now. We need all voices.  Please, take my opinion into serious consideration.

Thanks

Mark Sashine