Censorship alive and well at Huffpost

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   mchellap on January 3, 2014 at 6:13 am

   Tried once again, just to give them a chance. This time this was my comment that got blocked:

   This article appears to be a deliberate attempt to fan the flames of a conflict. And not publishing negative comments makes the suspicion worse. In the interests of doing a little bit to at least prevent rumor mongering, I will try again to address the so called security issue.
   The ‘security barricades’ that were removed were actually reopening the street running behind the US consulate in New Delhi. This public road is also the front entrance of the Swedish consulate. The Swedes and the French have been upset for over a decade due to this inconvenience because the security assessments repeatedly negated the need of any such drastic measure.
   It was a gesture from the Indian side after 911 in response to American paranoia which were 100% understandable at that point in time but not any more. India still is responsible for security of all consulates on her soil and continues to ensure that. To claim that India somehow downgraded the security of US embassy staffers is plain malicious and really misleads the American public.

   One thing that makes it clear as to how blinkered much of the US media is over this is the non mention of Indian concerns over converting the parking spots outside the Indian embassy into paid public parking. Which has clear security implications and was done in spite of repeat requests to not do so from India.

   Lets see if this one makes it through the Huffpost censors.

   It didn’t.

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   mchellap on January 3, 2014 at 6:18 am

   Then I removed the first para and the last line. It went through and got posted 🙂 Very very amusing….

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