Posted on 02/11/2005 10:55:36 AM PST by Jim Robinson
The shot heard around the Internet has been fired on FreeRepublic.com The owner Jim Robinson and his moderators have launched a sniper style purge against members that disagree with the President’s ‘guest worker’ amnesty or support more control of illegal immigration. Free Republic is an amazing tool for those looking for a good debate and news from around the country.
The problem for the administration of the site is that their creation is allowing the participants to learn that the Bush immigration record and plans are shockingly out of line with the views of most conservatives. The management’s answer to this conflict between the majority of conservatives and the influence of the White House on their Web site has become electronic executions and censorship.
Members and readers of Free Republic would be surprised to know that many members of their community have fallen silent on the discussions about illegal immigration lately because free speech is an illusion on FR.com. They are silent because they have been banned from the Web site without warning, cause, or explanation in most cases. For weeks the moderators have been suspending and banning new members that chimed in quickly on the immigration debates.
Now this trend has broadened as the first groups of long-term users were suspended or banned this past week. Although Robinson and his staff removed many members of the Free Republic community in the first few days of the purge, those that religiously support President Bush’s immigration plan, open borders and approve of public benefits for illegal aliens remain on the forum. Those that were banned were the members that wanted more done to control illegal immigration and a strict observance to the President’s Oath of Office.
That is just sooooo wrong......
Shhhhhhhh! You'll blow my cover. Muahhhhaaahhhhhhhhahahhhhh!
Hehe, you ain't heard the rest of that song, either!
ROTFLMAO!
By the way, what is the Biker Bar and TOS?
"And furthermore if posts about the Minuteman Project are not allowed on Free Republic how about telling someone and perhaps listing that in your rules instead of just banning posters without explanation."
I would ask you to reassure me that you aren't truly that stupid, but you are.
ROTHFLMFO! What a GREAT series of images...Kudos!
Um...I'm a Christian, gun totin' granny. The leftst description of the alleged VWRC is indeed a stereotype, not a demographic.
My post was A: not addressed to you and B: was evident as mild sarcasm to anyone familiar with my posts. It's good to meet you. The length of you time can be on FR and discover old timers you never even met is a tribute to FR's size, scope and addictive power. Looking forward to getting to know your thoughts and positions on issues.
Your post qualifies as the most inane so far on this thread.
Go, Spiff. I have to wonder when another poster goes out of their way to attack me with the worst insults possible when I wasn't even posting to that person, and I have a very difficult time having their insults deleted, I see them flaming other pro-legal immigration posters AND they are still on the forum, I have to wonder if that person is carrying out an assignment to "pick us off." Just wondering . . .
Oh, and I have to wonder when my immigration ping list is dwindling rapidly.
Shees Darks, this thread is just too much fun! I can't drag myself away! LOL!
That was kinda cruel, wasn't it..
Is that really how it happens?
Perfect example of the unwarranted racist assertions made on these illegal immigration threads. If JR doesn't want references to the Minuteman Project, so be it. However, their project is pretty harmless.
Main Entry: vig·i·lan·te
Pronunciation: "vi-j&-'lan-tE
Function: noun
Etymology: Spanish, watchman, guard, from vigilante
vigilant, from Latin vigilant-, vigilans
: a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law appear inadequate); broadly : a self-appointed doer of justice
I have yet to read of any of these groups "punishing crime summarily". Educate yourself.
I love telling the disruptors that they most emphatically do NOT have an unrestricted right to spew anything they want on this site.
I keep expecting to get banned as well...but I guess even I am not obnoxious enough...and I use my real name too!
I am so ROFLMBO here!! That William dude is about as delusional as they come!
No, all that is need is the Government to stop welfare and enforce our current laws.
No fences, no Army, none of that. Take away the welfare and the free jobs and enact a viable guest worker program and illegal immigration will drop to a very manageable situation.
so does this impact wetback jokes at all ?
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