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I'm stating a fact. And you're falling into a trap. First, here is the fact of the situation with the hispanic with the car stereo.

It's only one car. It's my next door neighbor. I've gone out to politely ask him to stop, and he threatened me. He's been evicted since (not for the threat) and it doesn't happen anymore. The owner of the rental house is STILL cleaning up that mess.

I worded that post carefully because I wanted to show everyone something serious that I'm seeing here on FR lately.

You see, I followed that last thread all day and saw you (and others) go after that other FReeper with intense emotion. There must be a line that everyone shouldn't cross -and one is to instantly attack those who we know that are different in their views. Labeling someone from the posts they make might be common, but not to the point where insults are hurled about the thread. No matter what side of this issue you or I or anyone else may stand.

This is another thing that the media has succeeded at: Turning us against each other. They KNOW we are the enemy. They KNOW we can take down their finest soldier. So they must do all that they can do to take us out of the picture. Remove our teeth, as it were.

What better way to remove teeth than internally? Using cavities. Decay.

Everyone on these threads should watch for each other, and watch themselves. We're being torn apart by this issue, and if that happens, all WILL be lost.

Use patience, calm and thought in all your postings, FRiends. And know that there's eyes watching. Enemy eyes.

We're all on the same side here: AMERICAN SUCCESS. Differing opinions shouldn't change this fact.

Please, RMDupree. No hard feelings? I hope you'll understand this. I meant absolutely no insult whatsoever.

(Frankly, I hope that Jim puts this out here. I hope he's seeing this phenomenon as I am.)

No insult taken, Randall.

I think the bigger threat here is giving the media ammunition to use against us.

Ammo in the form of using posts found right here on FR that could easily be seen as "racist" to trivialize an important issue and have FReepers set aside as a lunatic fringe group.

I did not attack Full Court. I asked for a source to find out why the "Mexican immigrant" words were added to the headline when no evidence was found in the actual article.

She became defensive and accused me of being a "illegal apologist".

Her lack of a source disturbs me far worse than anything else, as she could easily be a troll trying to paint us into a corner by throwing out racial assumptions as a FReeper.