"Abner! Come quick! Look at these Republicans jaywalking!
They are . . . ILLEGALS!"
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.
I'm still waiting for a copy of today's transcript.
Sean's apparently making some FRSBL-like noises all of a sudden...so I've heard.
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Speaking of that, the OBL birdies are chirping too.
When we do get hit because we have given up our sovereign borders, poetic justice would have people that treat our Homeland Security so lightly, like you, absorb all the damage, loss and grief...you feelin' me?
You felt it...
I can feel the luv already seepin' / creepin' back into the thread...
LOL Just ignore the points you've been given that show what a hypocritical judgment that is, and keep on making it anyway.
Whatever. To me, she looks more like one of those who would call for "Abner" if she smelled her neighbor smoking pot. ; )
On the other hand, those of us who remember David Duke's Louisiana campaign think of him as a KKK leader who ran a campaign on an anti-immigrant theme, much like Pat Buchanan's campaign. Although at the time David Duke's target was Vietnamese immigrants who were having trouble with American shrimpers on the Gulf Coast. He and Louis Beam made several trips to Houston trying to raise money from the anti-immigrant crowd.
Maybe David Duke is a Nazi, I don't know, the only things I have heard him say are some of the same accusations about Hispanic immigrants on FR, such as "they are ruining our neighborhoods", "destroying our culture", lowering our educational standards","threatening our sovereignty", etc...
Those statements don't make him a Nazi though. Perhaps you should specify which David Duke you are referencing, the Nazi one or the anti-immigrant one.
Unless we're going to be pedantic, does it really make a difference?
I don't think anyone missed the point or would be any less justifiably outraged at being called a Klansman.
Hey Stone,
Note that Dane said "In my opinion".
I think drtl was posting a reply to her, not you with the "IMO you've got LOUSY opinions."
C'mon, can't we all get along? ;^)
Regards
FBD - You are right. I should have made my post a little clearer so I didn't set off the hair triggers that are set. LOL
LOL. That's the MO of the Dane posse.
Amen!
Until someone told me I had no idea you were a woman.
So there.
Whether nazi or kkk reference, neither is appropriate for debate.
Unless of course you're conceeding that you have no decent arguement in which case by all means use vieled insults to call people nazi's or kkk members.
I find it fascinating that there are two groups who masturbate like wild monkeys over the prospect of another attack on the United States, and eagerly pray for such attacks to take place.
The first group is made up of Islamist extremists.
The second group is made up of a few FReepers.
Well, it's an LLC that does take voluntary fees (for profits can't take "donations" per-se) from people to operate, so it's not *quite* as simple as that.
For instance, if the guests in your house paid your mortgage every month, even though they weren't forced to, they might be entitled to expect a certain amount of treatment in return. If people pay to be able to post, getting yanked, or the threat of being yanked for their views - would indeed be a concern.
I think the members of FR are by and large supporting it's existence ... so while in theory you are correct, there is some area of grey here.
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