I just want to give my opinion here. I think is a bad idea to remove messages from others, but i think it's ok if hutch should do it to put some order in the forum. I even don't like when users edit their post, i prefer to see a new post (or replies) with the correction. But all this it's just a personal taste and probably if you are going to be a moderator (whoever it is) you should apply the "powers" you have to the forum/subforum you moderate. So, even if we don't like it, it's kind of expected that moderators can delete replies. Probably it's a good idea to give users some kind of freedom without use censorship, but of course, to maintain legal content in the forum, some control rules must be applied.
Anyway, i like discussions in this forum of whichever topic, but i also like to see respect for each other. You guys still can "work" together...
