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I want Free Republic to remain what it has always been: a community of people who are committed to conservatism and to examining the evidence on issues that the lamestream won’t touch. America desperately needs it to be that. All the true Freepers who pitch in what they can to keep this site going know this is desperately needed, which is why we give. We love America, we love the truth, we love conservatism, and we desperately need this place to be salt.

We all know Jim loves this country, and that’s why he set this place up. Because the work he has done is so critical to the battle for America, this place is a high-level target for enemy operations. We all know that. I don’t pretend to know all the things Jim is trying to balance in his decisions.

What I do know is that this is a great place for people to talk, for deep anlaysis and detection of BS from whatever quarters it comes, and for the numbers of viewers that can make a real difference in the direction of America. The lamestream cuts off discussion of anything they think is “crazy” - without regard to what evidence supports it. They blew off the Dan Rather Memo-gate story, which was only carried by places like Free Republic. I didn’t even touch on NSA-gate in the post, but it takes more than one hand to count off the number of really critical issues that Congress is supposedly investigating (or should be) that the MSM poo-poohs because it’s “crazy conspiracy talk” and “could never happen here”.

If that’s the kind of filtering we want, we can get that anywhere we look. Dime a dozen. If Free Republic goes that same direction then we’ve all lost something really, really precious and FR will be just like any other government indoctrination avenue. Just like abc.gov.

The only people I want to “give hell” to are the people who are lying to destroy this country. With everybody else, all I ask/want is the chance for the evidence to be sorted out so people can make up their minds. That’s what FR has been and I cherish that. All of us who support this place do.

For the record:
Sudden Cardiac Arrest is the number one cause of natural death in the United States with approximately 325,000 people dying in that way each year.

Stress is a key contributing factor to Sudden Cardiac Arrest. It is rare that people dying after Sudden Cardiac Arrest exhibit any prior symptoms. Several young, healthy athletes die in this way every year.

It can be stressful to have a plane that you are riding in crash into the ocean.

Keith Yamamoto, Deputy Director of Health said in the first reports after the rescue that he was holding Loretta Fuddy’s hand “trying to calm her down.”

Conspiracy theories are fun hobbies for internet blogs. There are still people debating the Grassy Knoll Kennedy assassination plot theory, 51 years later.