As another site editor, I support Rob's decision.

Like Rob wrote, we remove reposts in order to allow for more local content on the site. This policy also keeps NH IMC from becoming homogeneous with other IMC sites. We don't remove reposts because of their content, and we delete many good articles under this policy. However, since we prohibited reposts two years ago, our site has become more locally oriented and a better tool for the local community.

While we don't find and remove every article reposted to our site, we remove reposts all the time. In fact, I removed another IMC repost just a few minutes before seeing this discussion thread.

Thank you Rob for all your support,and one day Americas Middle Class and Working Poor Americans
will all be able to look back on this injustice and laugh about how the WWW free speech enjoyed on all of the Indy Media sites world wide was able to assist in bringing future Congressional legislation assisting the tens of thousands of falsely imprisoned American citizens across America their proper legal representation
in our US Federal Courts of Appeal.
Manny Gonzales is the Poster Child example of 100,000 in this country who are in need of federal appeal legal counsel,and if forced to write their own legal cases,are destined to stay falsely imprisoned for 20 or 25 more years! Rob,Federal Appeal lawyers are currently only for wealthy Americans to benefit from,and we are here lobbying for the rights of all Americans to utilize our US Federal Appeal judicial system properly, not just the guilty affluent!