Subject: Welcome
This post introduces the three boards together in order to make their distinction more clear. They are all available by clicking "All Boards" above:
1. Atheist Shrewds - https://www.shrewdm.com/MB?bid...
2. US Policy - https://www.shrewdm.com/MB?bid...
3. Political Asylum (this board)

I have moved all posts on the Atheist Shrewds board to US Policy, as at least 95% of the posts there were actually of that subject - US politics.

Likewise, when placing posts on this board (Political Asylum) consider if your post relates to US politics and if so then please strictly post only at the US Policy board. ( You can then optionally place a reference your US Policy board post here on the Political Asylum board, by copy-pasting a url reference to the US Policy post, adding a brief summary, and “OT:” at the start of the subject). Posts relating to US politics placed on this Political Asylum board will be moved to the US Policy board if they are not labelled OT, so better to just post on the board that actually best matches the topic of your post. )

I have created this Political Asylum board to discuss politics where there would ordinarily be fear of censorship elsewhere, but protection from that here. Let's try to warrant the word 'asylum' is in the board's name.

Political Asylum board guidelines:

1. Asylum character: This board should try to stay true to the 'asylum' character. The character of board may be completely different character to the US Policy board. If anyone wants to post something political, first decide if it relates to US politics consistent with what could conceivably be covered in the popular press, and if so then the post should be on the US Policy board - https://www.shrewdm.com/MB?bid... - and not the Political Asylum board.

2. Respecting national sovereignty:
(Example: Emphasize criticism of your own country, given that you are represented, with far greater emphasis than criticising of other counties for the straight forward logical that you have a legitimate right to change your country, but absolutely no right to impose change elsewhere, or even be represented by the government elsewhere.

3. Moral symmetry: Act towards others what you wish acted towards yourself.
(Example 1: If you advocate sending loads of weapons near the border of another country, you must necessarily also advocate other countries sending loads of weapons to your own border).
(Example 2: If you want to have freedom to express a view that others may detest, you must necessary also want others to have freedom to express a view that you detest. )

4. Non-circular referencing: We are surrounded by information (and just the direction of attention itself) repeated through most of our local news sources. To partly mitigate this brainwashing, place extra effort to reference information sources outside the conveniently available media.
(Example 1: Read the news from Iran, Russia, Cuba and North Korea (this is more difficult than it sounds as much of it really is censored by our own institutions, or at least inconvenience to access), not exclusively but with at least 15% of the reading-time placed towards local media).
(Example 2: Try to observe primary sources, rather than secondary sources – if the local media takes a quote from a speech, read the speech itself rather than the quote).

- Manlobbi