Posted on 06/25/2009 12:41:23 AM PDT by ThePythonicCow
Good-bye.
A few months ago, I posted some information on bank financial strength. The post was a complex table and it took me sometime to make the post. Not long after, I forget but perhaps 10 or 20 minutes, the post disappeared. Figuring I made a mistake, I posted it again. This time I was pretty sure I posted it correctly. It disappeared within a few minutes. To verify that this was what was happening, I posted a third time. It again disappeared immediately.
I never received any feedback from FreeRepublic on this matter.
It annoyed me, but since I have always trusted FR, and since I have so far as I know maintained a sterling reputation here as a well behaved citizen for the eight or ten years I've been here, I shook my head in confusion and forgot that incident.
Just tonight I posted a more controversial post involving 9/11. It disappeared within minutes (after I had verified that the post succeeded).
Again, no notice public or private, before or after the fact. Just poof.
Good-bye.
I will cancel future monthly FR donations and leave. I cannot support a political discussion and news site which makes seriously intended posts by long standing contributors of good standing just disappear without notice, public or private, before or after.
The SanityIsland.us site, with some Daily Dose images, will remain around likely for one year, then go away without further notice. I may be reached via email at pj@usa.net (yes, I have excellent spam filters.)
Sites have a right to do as they please, but also a responsibility to stand up for the actions they take, at least involving participants acting in good faith. FR apparently is failing to honor this responsibility.
I would ask that in the future removals of posts made in good faith by members in good standing at least be recognized in private messages to the poster after the fact, stating the approximate cause for removal. Even a 'boilerplate' explanation would be better than nothing.
I wish this fine community and the good people here well. This nation is in dire need of honest reporting and discussion.
I had heard these charges second hand so it was interesting to get them from the horse’s mouth. What is odd to him, proving conspiracy is all weak speculation from a man who has found a home with hard core communists, his greatest fans.
For example: He claims it was odd that Fema was dispactched after the first plane hit? Why was it odd? Because Fema did not go into New Orleans for days even though they saw the hurricane coming...says he.
New Orleans was flooded and Fema was staged outside of New Orleans before the hurricane hit. The Gov. and the Mayor were wackadoos failing to evacuate then blocking Fed. efforts to conduct rescue for fear of Bush gaining a leg up politically in the mess they caused. Fema does not go into a hurrican area, set up and wait as this idiot asserts. This is simply leftist anti-Bush slogans, devoid of analysis of facts on the ground wrapped up in “odd” proclaimations by a Leftist. It is not odd at all that Fema would dispatch to NY upon seeing a plane crash into the World Trade Center.
Words...just words.
Communists are the best disinfo experts on the planet.
Yeah, I had my account locked once for posting something asking questions about that.
I know what you’re talking about.
Why, so Palin’s campaign can be contaminated by troother morons too? Sheesh.
I was gonna say something like, “Hang around, it will be okay.” Then I saw what crap has apparently been integral to the the evolution of your views on 9-1-1.
For my part, you won’t be missed. I wish you will, but at the same time I wish you absolute failure in your attempts to spread your bullsh!t around.
*I will you well
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