Posted on 03/22/2004 6:22:17 PM PST by Jim Robinson
I posted the following statement to our front page in response to the criticism I'm receiving lately as to not being fair and balanced and perceived mistreatment of trolls and assorted malcontents. Got news for all, I'm NOT fair and balanced. I'm biased toward God, country, family, liberty and freedom and against liberalism, socialism, anarchism, wackoism, global balonyism and any other form of tyranny. Hope this helps.
Statement by the founder of Free Republic:
In our continuing fight for freedom, for America and our constitution and against totalitarianism, socialism, tyranny, terrorism, etc., Free Republic stands firmly on the side of right, i.e., the conservative side. Believing that the best defense is a strong offense, we (myself and those whom I'm trying to attract to FR) support the strategy of taking the fight to the enemy as opposed to allowing the enemy the luxury of conducting their attacks on us at home on their terms and on their schedule.
Therefore, we wholeheartedly support the Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive strikes on known terrorist states and organizations that are believed to present a clear threat to our freedom or national security. We support our military, our troops and our Commander-in-Chief and we oppose turning control of our government back over to the liberals and socialists who favor appeasement, weakness, and subserviency. We do not believe in surrendering to the terrorists as France, Germany, Russia and Spain have done and as Kerry, Kennedy, Clinton and the Democrats, et al, are proposing.
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We aggressively defend our God-given and first amendment guaranteed rights to free speech, free press, free religion, and freedom of association, as well as our constitutional right to control the use and content of our own personal private property. Despite the wailing of the liberal trolls and other doom & gloom naysayers, we feel no compelling need to allow them a platform to promote their repugnant and obnoxious propaganda from our forum. Free Republic is not a liberal debating society. We are conservative activists dedicated to defending our rights, defending our constitution, defending our republic and defending our traditional American way of life.
Our God-given liberty and freedoms are not negotiable.
May God bless and protect our men and women in uniform fighting for our freedom and may God continue to bless America.
Jim Robinson
If what I read is correct, Russian agents recently killed a major chechen terrorist figure who was holed up in Qatar, and American agents aided the Quataris in capturing the Russian agents and American officials are now boasting about it.
Apparently America's anti-terrorist policy does not apply when terrorists are targeting slavic orthodox Christian nations for some reason. I'd be curious to know why.
In particular, I'd hoped that George W. Bush would reverse a number of the most noxious of the Clinton policies and yet, in too many cases, those policies appear to simply roll merrily along as if nothing had changed and, if they don't start changing fast, I'm going to be sorely tempted to start withholding support from the RNC and sending it to the Russian government or to somebody who appears to be more serious about dealing with terrorism as it actually lies.
In particular, I view "palestinians", chechens, and albanians and their political organizations as savages and do not want my tax dollars doing anything whatsoever involving them other than perhaps for providing those unfortunate enough to have to deal with them at close quarters with the necessary weaponry and other means of doing so.
Comments?
Frankly, that's the best news I've heard in a long time.
As I've tried to point out on several threads----FR is not a debating forum re those basic conservative issues enumerated by JimRob. We can differ among ourselves on strategy, framing issues, and the like. But as JimRob says, FR should be off-limits to disruptive left-leaners who, to my mind, are intent on proselytizing FR users.
As Jim has unambiguously declared, trolls, malcontents, and other disrupters should take their keyboards and go elsewhere.
I'm a day late and a dollar short, as usual.
Thank you JimRob for the stance that you continue to take in the best interests of our country. This attitude is what has kept us here at FR and away from FR-wannabe knock-off sites. May God continue to bless you abundantly.
To all who don't agree: Take a hike, move along, nothing to see here. We have a job to do.
((((((JimRob)))))))
I love that phrase! Thanks Jim, for providing a place to meet and learn.
Thank you one and all for making me feel welcome.
I must run. Photo shoot today. Let's see, I've already done snowboard, surfboard, hockey, rolling stone,... What am I missing?
Please buy Heinz products to support my retaking of the country for the little guy.
John F. Kerry
PS - you seem a smart group. Any campaign tips I can use against the (let's be frank) dumb cowboy now in office?
No t-shirts? ;)
I'll thank you not to pretend to be me. No one is capable of being me, but me.
I would however, be open to any advice from this group.
JFK (I LOVE WRITING THAT!)
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