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.

[Mo1]

OK .. instead of having to read all 280 posts .. could ya give me a little cheap sheet .. what is this all about?

[Havoc]

That's about a sorry load of whining crap if I've seen one tonight. Pathetic!

[Dec31,1999]

Since the country is as polarized as it is, the decision is easy. Never vote for the Democrat baby-killer-terrorist sympathizers. Period!

[Dec31,1999]

To ignore CJ's opinions is akin to being ignorant.

[arete]

That's about a sorry load of whining crap if I've seen one tonight. Pathetic!

No whining. Just stating facts that most Bush-bot Republicans flunkies like yourself try to ignore. You are giving up the very freedoms that you claim to cherish and protect. All because you've lost your identity by associating with one party and hating everything else. I've seen so little posted here about how we should be demanding that the Constitution be followed as written regardless of which party nitwit is sitting in the Oval Office.

Richard W.

[FreeReign]

That's better than voting for a Republican who increased the size of the federal budget by 22 percent in only two years

The president's discretionary spending has been flat for his first two years. Any increases in the federal budget have been manadatory increases from Medicare, Medicaide and SSI -- this while the senate was controlled by D's.

[FreeReign]

..You can always vote for a Libertarian, Constitution Party candidate or.the rare, endangered right-wing Democrat like Ralph Hall (a D, but with a 100% ACU rating.)

Hall has a lifetime rating of 88 in 22 years.

[Mo1]

Oh dang ..

cheap sheet = Cheat sheet

And no need .. I think I figured it out .. the world is coming to an end because I vote republican

[Tall_Texan]

Sometimes I wonder if FR is beginning to morph from a truly conservative website to a wholly-owned subsidiary of High Times Magazine.

You sound like a smart lady, perhaps you can answer this for me. I seem to notice a correlation between the posters who hate our drug laws and the posters who hate searches at airport terminals, sobriety checkpoints, drug-sniffing dogs and the like. Do you think these people might possibly be more motivated by not wanting their stash discovered than they would be any high-minded defense of our constitution? Just curious.

[Boot Hill]

tpaine claims:   "we now have a viable alternative, a method to get people to think about principle over politics."

  Serious Libertarian Party Candidates  The face of the new Libertarian Party --- The Party of Principle

 

 

Steve "the fugitive"   Kubby
1998 Libertarian candidate for Governor of California

QUALIFICATIONS:	I can grow some really righteous weed, dude!
CURRENT STATUS:	Fugitive from justice, having fled the country to avoid a non-jail sentence for possession of the hallucinogens psilocybin and peyote.
HEADQUARTERS:	Somewhere in Canada
MEMORABLE QUOTE:	Turning your back on America is a small price to pay for liberty.

 

 

Gary "spitball"   Copeland
2002 Libertarian candidate for Governor of California

QUALIFICATIONS:	Druid Existentialist (honest!)
CAMPAIGN SLOGAN:	I'll put a spell on you!
CAUTION:	Approach with caution. Considered armed (with spit) and extremely dangerous. Avoid making jokes about camels. If you have any information concerning this person, please contact your local health department.

 

 

Stan "the smurf"   Jones
2002 Libertarian Candidate for Senator from Montana

CAMPAIGN ISSUES:	Taking colloidal silver is a fundamental right.
MEMORABLE QUOTE:	What the hell do you mean this blue skin color is permanent?
FUTURE GOALS:	Founding father of the Blue Party.
GREATEST FEAR:	Smurf jokes.

 

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--Boot Hill

[Havoc]

Sorry chum, I ain't giving up any freedoms. It is not and never has been my right to engage in anything that puts another's rights in jeopardy. Grownups tend to realize that the end of their rights is where the rights of others begin. You're just upset you can't do whatever you like whenever you like - something that is in no way enumerated as a right of yours under the constitution. Nowhere - your whining/name calling notwithstanding. The problem most of you have is that you want to whine about what the constitution says while you haven't the slightest clue what it says.

[Tall_Texan]

The goal is 60 in '04! No more democrat obstruction! No more fillibustering conservative appointments! We must gain a supermajority and remake the entire judiciary! This will set the liberals/socialists back 40 years or more. We've never had an opportunity like this in modern history! Do it now while we have the chance!

THAT needs to be on the front page!

[Tall_Texan]

A right not held by everyone is not held by anyone.

So you favor emptying our prisons? Giving day-schoolers the right to vote? Empty posterboard cliches don't fly around here, pal.

[FreeReign]

You can always vote for a Libertarian, Constitution Party candidate or.the rare, endangered right-wing Democrat like Ralph Hall (a D, but with a 100% ACU rating.)

You've advocated the Libertarian party and the ACU in the same sentence.

It would be more consistant to advocated the Republican party and the ACU.

[Steve Van Doorn]

"that in a perfect utopian world that would exist if it was just legal.. "

That is funny, that is what i was thinking about people that make laws to create their own utopian world. Then they wonder why no one follows the law.
Something like seat belt laws... people don't use them lets make a law to make everyone do it because its best for them. Once you start down that road it is never ending.

[Kevin Curry]

If you havn't noticed, the moderators have been moving anti-"War on Drugs" postings to the Smokey Backroom almost immediately.

That's not right. They should be summarily tossed into the Dirty Dumpster--not moved into the Smokey Backroom.

I wager that a thread that argued the good and bad of asset forfeiture laws would likely survive intact in the front room. But the WOD threads are only nominally about the Constitution. They are really quite transparent cheerleading exercises in seeking to make dope easily and readily available.

[FreeReign]

I wager that a thread that argued the good and bad of asset forfeiture laws would likely survive intact in the front room. But the WOD threads are only nominally about the Constitution.

All of which makes the WOD threads mostly a disservice to serious debate on asset forfeiture laws.

[Tall_Texan]

I stopped throwing away my vote on Republicans a long time ago.

So we have YOU to blame for Clinton getting elected? Gee, thanks, Farmboy.

[Tall_Texan]

Thanks. I let that comment slip but you did a much better job answering it than I would have.