Come on, can't we all just get along... This bickering doesn't exactly further our cause, nor does it entice fence-sitters to get on board. 
Anyone who can be scared away by a discussion on an Internet forum... probably won't make a very good activist... 
Joe
Seeing as the internet forum gives a disproportionate amount of what newbies see about what porcupines are like, I think that someone might figure "well, I'd love to join but it seems my view on x and y issues would make me unwelcome" if that's the only kind of responses they see on the forum.
I say get over your tuberculosis(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis) BEFORE you join and before you move...
No one here wants any part of YOUR sickness...we get enough massholes as it is...
Looters, bureaucrats, jackboots, and mercenaries can all go to hell...
There is plenty of good information immediately available to prove the Non-Aggression Principle beyond a shade of a doubt...
Read it, learn it, and live it...BEFORE you come pissing in our pickle jar...
Liberty and Freedom are NOT for the faint of heart...
There are fates worse than death...
Live Free Or Die!
Go figure...
RAD
Enjoy!