[Peter Libra]

Hey Joe, from Canada by way of foggy old London Town. I have had my ups and downs on FR. Poor old Neville Chamberlain is being vilified again, cos' WW2 started on Sept 4th 1939. One in twenty persons will dare defend Chamberlain. I have taken flak. My watchword is never to engage in ad hominem.

It tends to hurt and make for bitterness. Give it another go! Lots of very nice posters here.

[Lazamataz]

I love you.

[FredZarguna]

It's one of the communist successes on par with identifying fascism as a "right wing ideology" that Chamberlain [and to a lesser extent, Daladier] get blamed for a wobbly foreign policy that started World War II.

The real truth is that the person most responsible for the aggressiveness of Nazi Germany was Josef Stalin. You'll find more people who know that per square inch on Free Republic than just about any other place on Earth.

More generally, your post is right. There are some asses here; I'm occasionally accused of being one of them because I don't suffer fools gladly. But none of it is personal in many cases; just strong opinion. And there are some very nice folks.

To FlJoePA, don't lose sight of a basic fact: anyone who claims Joe Paterno was a "pedophile enabler" is a moron whose opinion -- on any topic whatsoever -- is not to be taken seriously. Like the hysterical mob rule that sent so many people who ran day care operations to prison in the 1980's for "Satanic Practices," the actual truth about the Penn State "cover-up" is slowly coming out. It's highly unlikely that the idiots warming up their tar and lighting their torches will ever admit they were wrong. But that doesn't matter. They're wrong all the same.