Vanity: Is protecting Constitution no longer goal of Freerepublic.com?

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[libertylady]

I have recently noticed that the home page of Free Republic no longer has the icon at the top which states that one of the goals of this website is protecting our freedom and our Constitution. Can anyone help me shed some light on this? I would hope that this is a temporary change and not an official declaration made by the staff of this website. With the lack of articles and lack of alarm posted on this website about the Draconian Patriot 1 and Patriot Act 2 I have began to wonder about whether this site really does support the Constitution.

[Lloyd227]

"anti-"War On Drugs" ==> "pro-drugs" "

Sorry, but I have to take issue with your "boolean" logic[?]

Mass inability to separate legal concepts from morals and personal preference is the only explanation I can provide for those who allow rights to be trampled as long as it's in the name of our favorite cause.

The simple rule to remember is that if another's rights can become meaningless to enforce your ideas then your rights can just as quickly be made meaningless to enforce my ideas on you.

Not all of course, but many of the actions taken in the name of first the "War on drugs" and now the "War on Terror" are just plain wrong and unconstitutional. The fact that we allow these actions to stand doesn't make it right.

[humblegunner]

Then why is CulturalJihad still around?

Local color.

[sweetliberty]

I was simply responding to IMHO's post. I have no personal issue with CJ, although I have noticed that he often comes across as the proverbial skunk at the picnic.

[Jhoffa_]

He [Cultural Jihad] is a legitimate member of this site and a Conservative American. He isnt a prefabricated arguement cut & paste artist or a person given to warped logic.

I completely agree..

CJ has been unfortunate (or, fortunate.. depending on your take) enough to have de-throned Dane and Kevin Curry as head Drug War Demon. (the others have been relegated to mere minion status, I believe.)

So, now it's common practice to place a slur in a thread attached to his handle or just outright bait him and then gripe to everyone (including Admod) when he shows up.

I don't agree with everything the he types either, but if you don't agree with him, well then by all means don't bait him and then freeking whine when he shows up to post.

[Howlin]

He is a legitimate member of this site and a Conservative American. He isnt a prefabricated arguement cut & paste artist or a person given to warped logic.

Amen!

[VaBthang4]

Nice homepage.

[Havoc]

Bull. Alcohol companies flourished and propogated once prohibition was lifted. And alcohol is not a controlled substance. The money has not by far dryed up. If any thing there is far more of it and far more alcohols to choose from now.

Drugs are far more dangerous than alcohol and more damaging. You wish to argue that legalizing pot would legitimize it and make it a controlled and regulated trade which would keep it out of the hands of minors, etc. Just like it keeps alcohol out of the hands of minors.. Uhem. Truth is, most of you just want to carry on the activity you should have been arrested for long ago without fear of being arrested for something so innocent as breaking the law. All this crap about the war on drugs being destructive is just a side show diversion - much as the shouting concerns about iraqi civilians and unilateralism is just a diversion to cover the fact that closed minded liberals hate Bush and will do anything to make him look bad. One argument serves another - like the notion of legalizing abortion so that it can be used in "rare" cases where the life of the mother is in jeopardy - a red herring argument used to break the doors down so that poeple could set up an industry of murdering children as a form of birth control. I'm sure satanists in many of those clinics are greatful for Roe v. Wade allowing them to murder children for their religion in the guise of providing a "health service".

Sorry, sell it walkin.

[VaBthang4]

"So, now it's common practice to place a slur in a thread attached to his handle or just outright bait him and then gripe to everyone (including Admod) when he shows up."

That is precisely what it is.

It is also the spirit that drives alot of anti-FR sites. All of which seem to be riddled with bitterness, extremism and Liberal[tarian] thought process'.

[mlo]

I am also concerned and deeply troubled that there is no official stance on chocolate pudding on this site.

I like cheese.

[Steve Van Doorn]

"Alcohol companies flourished and propogated once prohibition was lifted."

Lets assume you are correct. That would mean Alcohol company's no longer used thugs and criminals to move their product. Same holds true with drugs and terrorist organizations. Either way we win if drugs are legalized.

[Steve Van Doorn]

"Truth is, most of you just want to carry on the activity you should have been arrested for long ago without fear of being arrested for something so innocent as breaking the law."

Generalizations about my character should not be allowed in any debate. To be honest, when I was in High school I tried smoking pot. I did not like its effects on me and would never try it again I am now 40 years old. Besides Alcohol and Caffeine I never used any other form of recreational drug.

[hinckley buzzard]

"Provide evidence for your claim."

Well, it wasn't my claim but just for the heck of it I gave it about 30 seconds thought and came up with these"

WW II: Internment of Japanese and German aliens, discontinued after the war. Wage and price controls, rationing of basic commodities by government order, discontinued after the war. Conversion of private property in the form of industrial plants, into war production, discontinued after the war. Censorship of journalist reports, meaning REAL censorship, with a black pen, discontinued after the war. Servicemen's mail opened and censored for sensitive information, discontinued after the war.

VietNam War: As soon as the end of the war was in sight, the military Draft was ended.

No doubt there are many more examples, but I quickly found the exercise pointless and tedious so I quit. However, I encourage you to go educate yourself on the rudiments of American history, and find a few examples of your own.

[FreeTheHostages]

There's a reason they call 'em vanity posts.

What a self-indulgent, weirdly paranoid idea.

Not saying you're that way, saying your post reads that way.

Vanity posts: you don't HAVE to make them.

[FreeTheHostages]

"Darth was banned for acting like a jerk."

Then why is CulturalJihad still around?

Why am I around? ;)

[Havoc]

Oh, you mean decriminalizing theft would stop people getting killed in robberies? Wow, perhaps we should decriminalize theft. Maybe we should decriminalize every crime in which people have tended to get killed so we can say that society is safer. I'm sure that would work (/sarcasm). You noteably dodged the rest - as expected.

[metesky]

Can you find anything in the Constitution that allows the building and maintanence of Interstate Highways?

"Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 1:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States"

Parts of the highway system are designated as the Strategic Highway Network(STRAHNET)): This is a network of highways which are important to the United States' strategic defense policy and which provide defense access, continuity and emergency capabilities for defense purposes.

The original Eisenhower Interstate Highway System was also built for defense purposes, ie; moving of troops and equipment.

A little more solid ground than the WOsD.

[FreeTheHostages]

Jim Robinson: You guys are simply running up the white flag. I see nothing patriotic or principled in that.

The guy gets too many pings, bless him, so I'll say it to you all instead: this bears repeating, JR's totally Right.