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Press Release - October 23, 2009 Free Republic LLC. Targeted For Fraud
some wackjob who is annoyed at being repeatedly banned at FR | 10/23/09 | Kevin Martin

Posted on 10/23/2009 4:55:48 PM PDT by Jean S

Edited on 10/23/2009 6:00:12 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlOmsVUS1lw

For immediate release. As you know, I am one that is sick of scammers of this world. From global warming, to the very laws that control the people. However, one scam is starting to stick out right now.

Free Republic LLC. has viewers, in which only seems to be run by one or two people. The donations on that site are enormous, but the costs just do not add up. We at the SCWXA use about 5% of our server's bandwidth and do not need over $20,000 monthly. It seems owner Jim Robinson is scamming the viewers by using the country's issues on hand, to make money.

I've seen it done before, on many other websites. However this one just takes the cake. While Robinson claims the donations keep the website running, I believe a lot of this is going for vacation (travel), and personal needs. He has brainwashed the people into donating for the site.

I do urge people to step back, and look at it. The site says "The very country you save could be your own". My question is, how is this one site going to save our economy, our world, or our country?

It is just is not going to happen, and has promised this since 1996? The website is making the owner one rich puppy off people's money, promising "change". We've heard this before from a certain someone have we not? The website is a fraud, and the poor people are brainwashed by this individual, simple as that. Donate to a better cause, not this guy's wallet.

When I hear the Free Republic LLC. has donated 50% of it to a better cause, I will retract the statement. Till then, I am on the phone with a group of entities to see exactly what can be done about these donations coming in from obviously brainwashed people.


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: extortion
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1 posted on 10/23/2009 4:55:49 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: Jean S

Kevin is buckin for fundraiser of the quarter.


2 posted on 10/23/2009 4:57:04 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: Jean S

zzzzzot


3 posted on 10/23/2009 4:57:52 PM PDT by bboop (Tar and feathers -- good back then, good now)
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To: Jean S

Barack, is that you?

” the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in the society. To that extent, as radical ... put together the actual coalitions of powers through which you bring about redistributive change.”

Trying to redistribute the wealth?


4 posted on 10/23/2009 4:58:40 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: Jean S
...I am on the phone with a group of entities to see exactly what can be done...

That's scary right there, folks... /s

5 posted on 10/23/2009 4:59:04 PM PDT by frankenMonkey ("Natural Born Citizen" - US Constitution, 1787; "Words have meaning" - Barack Obama, 2009)
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To: Jean S

Is he an alumni of StormFront?


6 posted on 10/23/2009 4:59:19 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: Jean S

For those who don’t know, Kevin Martin (not related to FR’s Kevin Martin) is a known troublemaker all over the Internet. A quick search shows he has tried to pull this kind of extortion stunt all over the place.


7 posted on 10/23/2009 5:01:27 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: Jean S; Jim Robinson
My question is, how is this one site going to save our economy, our world, or our country?

Documentgate? Poll FReeping? Exposing the leftist agenda and informing conservative "viewers"?

I don't give a rat's ass how much money Jim Thompson makes off this site. I do care that w/o it I would have to look elsewhere for the wealth of information I get here each day.

8 posted on 10/23/2009 5:03:16 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a long tradition of tolerance." ~Hussein Obama, June 4, 2009, Cairo, Egypt)
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To: Jean S

This site is clearly labeled a for-profit, privately owned site.

Take a hike dork.


9 posted on 10/23/2009 5:04:30 PM PDT by paulycy (Predatory Pricing = Public Option = Unethical Competition.)
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To: cripplecreek

Kevin is buckin’ for a visit from the men in white coats.


10 posted on 10/23/2009 5:04:32 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Jean S

Better Jim Robinson than any government parasite (military excluded).


11 posted on 10/23/2009 5:05:02 PM PDT by VR-21 (There was a rush, along the Fulham Road....)
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To: bboop

No, this is not a ZOT thread. The author of the material has been multiply-ZOTted already, but Jean S is a longtime FReeper who is just following JimRob’s lead by posting Round 2 of this whackjob’s latest tantrum so that we can have fun making fun of him.


12 posted on 10/23/2009 5:08:21 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Jean S

13 posted on 10/23/2009 5:09:39 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
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To: Jean S

Anybody have a full name for this dork?


14 posted on 10/23/2009 5:11:00 PM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: Jean S
He has brainwashed the people into donating for the site.

This guy is BIG TIME NUTSO! Plus on the other thread he said FR has vendors....I'm still looking for the vendor that sells soft pretzels.

15 posted on 10/23/2009 5:11:51 PM PDT by azishot
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To: Jean S

That did it! I just made a $50 contribution to FreeRepublic.


16 posted on 10/23/2009 5:12:01 PM PDT by PackerBoy (Just my opinion ....)
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To: Jean S

Well, the libertarians are a little wacky, but I think that is because of Ayn Rand. Most everybody else here seems pretty normal. Except for me.

parsy, who is checking his brains for soap scum now


17 posted on 10/23/2009 5:13:05 PM PDT by parsifal (Abatis: Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside)
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To: Jean S

Martin really ought to forget the shake-down try. Who does he think he is? The Reverends Jackson and Sharpton?


18 posted on 10/23/2009 5:16:19 PM PDT by YHAOS
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To: PackerBoy

Everyone who does so should make the contribution in this guy’s name. :-)


19 posted on 10/23/2009 5:16:25 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a long tradition of tolerance." ~Hussein Obama, June 4, 2009, Cairo, Egypt)
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To: Jean S

Jim Robinson doesn’t reach into my pocket a take my money!

I donate monthly because I love Freerepublic.com and have always donated my hard earned money willingly to keep it up and running.

If I’m brainwashed, then this other guy is brain dead!


20 posted on 10/23/2009 5:19:00 PM PDT by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!)
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To: azishot
He has brainwashed the people into donating for the site.
Hey wait he's right - they're taking money right out of my bank account every month! Oh wait ... now I remember ... nevermind. ;-)
21 posted on 10/23/2009 5:20:03 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: South40
Everyone who does so should make the contribution in this guy’s name. :-)

Money has been tight for us and lots of other Freepers but this ah has motivated me to kick in an extra $20 this quarter.

22 posted on 10/23/2009 5:20:53 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: Para-Ord.45

Van Jones is that you?


23 posted on 10/23/2009 5:27:09 PM PDT by Freddd (CNN is not credible.)
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To: Jean S

OK, so Alexa isn’t the be all and end all of web rating, but here goes...

Freerepublic.com

Traffic rank in US 1067
Sites linking in 7241

Martin’s scwxa.org

Traffic rank in US 236,726
Sites linking in 16

There is absolutely no way to compare FR’s bandwidth costs and needs to some random little site. FR has dedicated physical servers in a colocation facility, not some cheap shared bandwidth hosting solution.

I know people who run major newspaper sites. Bandwidth costs don’t scale down, they scale up. The bigger the site, the bigger the bandwidth bill.

...and I don’t see any reason why JimRob shouldn’t make a comfortable living.


24 posted on 10/23/2009 5:29:23 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: MediaMole

Another site had rankings of news sites and FR was in the top 20 with more visits than the New York Post, Townhall, and other major sites. If I recall correctly, it was right below The Huffington Post and NYT.


25 posted on 10/23/2009 5:32:44 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: cripplecreek

Jim is really Kevin.

(Sarcasm! OK? Just KIDDING! I’ve just donated this week!)


26 posted on 10/23/2009 5:32:46 PM PDT by listenhillary (A "cult of personality" arises when a leader uses mass media creating idealized/heroic public image)
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To: MediaMole
...and I don’t see any reason why JimRob shouldn’t make a comfortable living.

You know that fancy SUV that the Afers always talk about? Well, I saw it in person a month ago. It's a beat up mini-van with a wheelchair lift.

I can't believe it made it from Fresno to D.C. and back.

27 posted on 10/23/2009 5:36:19 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: Jean S

According to some of the ankle biters, it is really a Rolls Royce that is disguised as a van with a wheel chair lift.


28 posted on 10/23/2009 5:37:58 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: Jean S
It seems owner Jim Robinson is scamming the viewers by using the country's issues on hand, to make money.

I hope that Jim makes good money while running Free Republic.

Unlike some, Conservatives believe that one should be paid for their work and paid handsomely for excellent work.

29 posted on 10/23/2009 5:39:01 PM PDT by RJL
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To: Jean S

Suggest you add your comments to the other thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2369579/posts?page=1

...since there are some bets that will increase donations! It needs to hit 1000 posts over there ;)


30 posted on 10/23/2009 5:52:28 PM PDT by FrogMom (No such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: Jean S

Here’s this delusional retard’s video statement on this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlOmsVUS1lw


31 posted on 10/23/2009 5:58:33 PM PDT by xjcsa (And these three remain: change, hope and government. But the greatest of these is government.)
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To: xjcsa

What a stoner.. Does he keep his mother’s mummy in a rocking chair in his attic?


32 posted on 10/23/2009 6:03:03 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: FrogMom

Thanks, I’m aware of the other thread, that’s why I linked to it.


33 posted on 10/23/2009 6:08:39 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: South40; Jean S; Jim Robinson
I don't give a rat's ass how much money Jim Thompson makes off this site. I do care that w/o it I would have to look elsewhere for the wealth of information I get here each day.
Needed to get that up again so Martin doesn't miss it!
Thank you Jim and All !!
34 posted on 10/23/2009 6:21:33 PM PDT by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !! Â)
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To: GovernmentShrinker

Oh, ok, good to know.


35 posted on 10/24/2009 11:17:18 AM PDT by bboop (Tar and feathers -- good back then, good now)
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To: brityank

Dear Kevin

As a long time Freeper I wish to share my thoughts about your attempts to slander Jim Rob and his wonder site.

You swine. You vulgar little maggot. Don’t you know that you are pathetic? You worthless bag of filth. As we say in Texas, I’ll bet you couldn’t pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won’t go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you.

You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you. You are a bloody nardless newbie twit protohominid chromosomally aberrant caricature of a coprophagic cloacal parasitic pond scum and I wish you would go away.

You’re a putrescence mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon.

You are a bleating fool, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done.

I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell?

If you aren’t an idiot, you made a world-class effort at simulating one. Try to edit your writing of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly.

You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs.

You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You’re a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won’t have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot.

And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake?

You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile one-handed slack-jawed drooling meatslapper.

On a good day you’re a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go.

I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I’m sorry. I can’t go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me. After this, you may not hear from me again for a while. I don’t have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. Duh.

The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. I have snipped away most of what you wrote, because, well... it didn’t really say anything. Your attempt at constructing a creative flame was pitiful. I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling was hardly effective... Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us “normal” people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are “challenged” persons in this world who find these things more difficult. If I had known, that this was your case then I would have never read your post. It just wouldn’t have been “right”. Sort of like parking in a handicap space. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you.

P.S.: You are hypocritical, greedy, violent, malevolent, vengeful, cowardly, deadly, mendacious, meretricious, loathsome, despicable, belligerent, opportunistic, barratrous, contemptible, criminal, fascistic, bigoted, racist, sexist, avaricious, tasteless, idiotic, brain-damaged, imbecilic, insane, arrogant, deceitful, demented, lame, self-righteous, byzantine, conspiratorial, satanic, fraudulent, libelous, bilious, splenetic, spastic, ignorant, clueless, illegitimate, harmful, destructive, dumb, evasive, double-talking, devious, revisionist, narrow, manipulative, paternalistic, fundamentalist, dogmatic, idolatrous, unethical, cultic, diseased, suppressive, controlling, restrictive, malignant, deceptive, dim, crazy, weird, dystopic, stifling, uncaring, plantigrade, grim, unsympathetic, jargon-spouting, censorious, secretive, aggressive, mind-numbing, arassive, poisonous, flagrant, self-destructive, abusive, socially-retarded, puerile, clueless, and generally Not Good.

I Hope This Helps...


36 posted on 10/24/2009 12:20:17 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Note to the GOP: Do not count your votes until they are cast.)
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To: MNJohnnie; South40; Jean S; Jim Robinson
LOL Concur - but don't stop now, you're on a roll!
37 posted on 10/24/2009 1:56:59 PM PDT by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !! Â)
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To: MNJohnnie; 50mm

LoL! Use a thesaurus much? But seriously, tell us how you really feel!

(50mm pppping)


38 posted on 10/25/2009 1:07:15 AM PDT by ~Kim4VRWC's~ (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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To: Jean S

I’ll thank you to keep your judgements of my brain to yourself.


39 posted on 10/30/2009 6:00:42 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (Froggie sez water nice and warm)
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To: azishot

Can this guy be sued for defamation?


40 posted on 10/31/2009 7:27:49 AM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: xjcsa

This video is private.


41 posted on 10/31/2009 7:51:17 AM PDT by Dust in the Wind (if it is slimy, sticky and smells bad, it will need handled at some point)
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To: thethirddegree

I do believe that some FReepers (can’t remember the names) have encouraged JR to sue him.


42 posted on 10/31/2009 8:11:20 AM PDT by azishot
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To: Jean S
From his site---

Southern California Weather Authority Mission and Official Statement

SCWXA.org is the first private weather forecast service in Southern California that does weather forecasting in a professional and political matter on our own. We do this without the help of reading NOAA forecasts and bring you, the reader, a different perspective and opinion in the weather of Southern California.

SCWXA's Meteorologist Kevin Martin has been known for scientific weather forecasting, and specializes in the micro-climates of Southern California . For 10 years the organization went through various other names and finally decided on SCWXA.org this past year.

Meteorologist Kevin Martin was the sole person that forecasted two weeks out that Las Vegas and the Southwestern USA would get hit by a rare arctic blast in December 2008 with the help of a new model called the UJEAS program, developed for weather pattern outlooks in the longer range.

We will share forecast videos, photos, blog forecasts, and much more so you the reader can determine if you like the new age weather forecast office in Southern California or not.

He sure needs to study the language and learn to proof read.

He is sure enough using NOAA equipment to use on that site. So who is scamming whom?

43 posted on 10/31/2009 8:13:21 AM PDT by Dust in the Wind (if it is slimy, sticky and smells bad, it will need handled at some point)
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To: South40
I don't give a rat's ass how much money Jim Thompson makes off this site. I do care that w/o it I would have to look elsewhere for the wealth of information I get here each day.

You betcha'. FR is the first and last website I check every day. When it's down I keep checking every few minutes to see if it's back up yet.

I can, however, quit FR anytime I desire.

Photobucket

44 posted on 11/02/2009 3:36:22 AM PST by barker (Sarah Palin 2012? You betcha!)
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To: Jean S

Hasn’t this person been around before? What a load of bs. This person sounds like they are threatening too.


45 posted on 11/09/2009 1:17:19 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Freddd

Just another one of Mighty Mouse’s up in the WH thugs.


46 posted on 11/09/2009 1:19:59 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: RGSpincich
"Anybody have a full name for this dork?"

Umm, that would be Dork D.(MIO) Dork, Esq. "Dork" for short.

47 posted on 11/14/2009 5:31:50 PM PST by Eastbound
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