For those that oppose censorship, here are two posts that were censored from the Greensboro News & Record's FedEx Discussion Board:

raven74 0 6/18/2001 04:09:47 PM (#2371 of 2371)
One more thing..... Ron....you stated..."We just do not think it makes sense for this community to sell it's soul to replace one OLD world economy for another!" Well...I agree about not replacing one old world economy with another, but your way off to regard FedEx as old world economy. In fact, your so far off that I have a little story for you to read. It might help put you back on course. Wired magazine recently did a story about the economy...titled... The New Blue Chips: Forget the Dow. Here comes the New Economy!

The reply:

WayneQ  06/18/2001 06:50:59 PM (#2372 of 2372)

All I can say about you quoting an article three years old like it's new is, ROTFLMAOAY! (Rolling on the floor laughing my a** off at you! - in case you didn't get it.) You said "Wired magazine recently did a story about the economy...titled...The New Blue Chips: Forget the Dow. Here comes the New Economy!"
My guess is, you saw the "June 6th" part of the date, but neglected to see the "1998" part. Things have changed since then. In June of 1998, Yahoo was selling at about $40 a share. It at one point went above $200, then dove down to a low of $11.37. My point? Many of those "Top 40" stocks they picked have had the bottom drop out. Even your vaunted FDX stock is down by over half from less than a year ago (Sept. 2000 - $49.85, Today's quote - $24.89, a loss of over 50%.) <br> Sorry, Ravin, but Nostradamus you ain't. <br> Oh, yeah, your claims you made in rebuttle to Ronn88 are about 180 degrees off the mark. Every single one of them was disproved way before you came on board. An example: You said "The package carrier also will pay millions of dollars in taxes to state and county government for items not covered by incentives, including trucks, cargo tugs, computer systems and other hub equipment not physically part of the proposed building."
Here's an excerpt from the RTS Report the pro-FedEx people have been waving about: "FedEx is exempted from adhering to low-bid contracting requirements, thus ensuring that the company will be able to purchase specialized computer and sorting equipment from its own out-of-state vendors." (Pg. 47; RTS report)
I can't wait to see you twist this one around to your own warped view of the world.