Moreover, banning users for anything other than grave violations of the ToU is counterproductive because it stunts activities and conduces to stagnation. It's much better to let the community marginalize users it deems unfavorable - they either leave or change their ways.

The brutal truth is that, if you think like that, you will never succeed.

You don't know rights. You point to permissions. If you have the right to be free, how the hell can you then support government giving you permission to be free? You are adding and unnecessary middle man that is the one that's being unlawful.

Contain yourself. I know you are going to laugh, but where in our law does it say government rules people? The federal government follows the rules of the people, which are free seeing as they can create a law that is the government and is for the government. How do they have this power, yet fail to remove themselves from an insubordinate creation?

@sSubZerOo: Acting upon it as in banning it. Treason? I didn't read...

The north was afraid of the south removing "its" economy. The north cared more about trade than slaves.

Calling the north, the north is even wrong. States can form allies with other states, but they can't coerce other states into doing something.

All states have every right to secede since they have the right to become a state in the first place. The federal government didn't create states then include them in the United States. So then they have the right to remove themselves from the union and become a different state because they created themselves first.

"Fact: The southern states only gave a shit about "states rights" when it affected them, they had no problem in supporting a federal law like the Fugitive Slave act which would force northern free states to enforce it even when it was against their wishes.."

Did the northern states fight for their new citizens or just hand them over the boarder? If they did the latter it would seem that they cared more about something else.