My 26 Year Freeper Anniversary (Some Historic Freeper Posts w/comments from "89")

Too begin with, I wanted to share what was posted the day I joined, but Sadly, 99% of FreeRepublic's early history is lost due to FR losing a court case brought on by many leftists in the MSM over copyright violations due to Freepers posting full articles. Thus all the records of posts and comments prior to early September 2021 were scrubbed by court order. I do find it quit interesting that the order came down from the courts about a week before the attack on 9/11. Coincidence? Maybe, but looking back now I with all that has been happening in the last 8 years I now wonder. Anyway, I was able find some posts from April 19, 1988, which is the earliest I could retrieve information using the Way Back Machine at ( Internet Archive)

I originally planned on posting this last year on my 25th anniversary, but totally flaked out. Then I promised myself I would post it on my 26th anniversary. Well, I'm a few days late. Time seems to get away from me lately. So I I'm just touting my 26 year Freeper Birthday. Yup, the birth of my name OneVike. It was around 6:00 pm or so, not long after I got off work. I had heard of FreeRepublic from Rush earlier at work. Wrote down the name and looked it up on the web. After I found it, I liked it joined the forum. Well, the rest is Freeper history. It was February 22. 1998 and I was still living in Chico CA, about 100 miles northeast of Sacramento on I-99. Chuck State university is the college there. Me my wife and her family all escaped the state in May 2019 and now live in Payette iD as refugees.

If interested you can check out my Freeper profile paget, which has many things I put together with menus and all using the HTML I learned in the early years of FR. Back in the days when HTML was your friend. Back in the day, if you failed to close an HTML code, the rest of the comments were effected by it until some one came along and closed the tag in their comment. Awww, the fond memories of the old days. My profile also links to my my website (The Reason For My Faith) if your interested in checking it out.

We have come a long way since February "98". As I stated, I learned of FreeRepublic from Rush Limbaugh so I was I was already a student of the EIB university. I had been listening to Rush Limbaugh every day at work for almost 11 years by then. About a year before he went national in 1988 I used to catch him on KNBR radio out of Sacramento. I must admit, I was blessed in that the guy I worked for, David Salisbury, was a hard core Christian conservative who played Rush every day in the shop of his small business. Sadly I and countless million like me were forced to graduat upon the death of the "Great One."

I joined when I was 42, and today at 67 I look back at those years with fond memories. I learned much through the years. Not just from Rush, but from the hundreds of thousands of Freepers who have trudged through the halls of freeRepublic through the years. Like many of you, I lost many friends along the way whom I learned to love and respect, both women and men. Today we stand upon the shoulders of those who came before us, and if FRee Republic lasts, there will be newbies who will stand upon our shoulders as they continue the task of carrying the torch of freedom by taking on the Deep State establishment .

Often times I peruse Free Republics Memorial Wall and take time to remember those former giants who helped make this the number one conservative political forum on the World Wide Web. I would name some, but there are too many, and I would be insulting those I forgot to mention. I suggest everyone take a moment by following the link below to show your respect to those great men and women. Members who, if they could see America today, would be shedding tears for the country they loved.

Finally, I would like to thank everyone, even those I seldom get along with, for being part of this 26 year ride. I look forward to the future with hopes and prayers that Free Republic will be around for many more years. Before I finish I want to remind everyone to help the cause by sending a donation to help keep this place free for those who come after us. Let's all ensure that this great forum will continue being a place for those who, like us, were once looking for a place they could join and mingle with like minded conservatives who still love and fight for the America we love.

Thanks for your time,
God bless Jim & John Robinson for creating this amazing forum, God bless America, and dear Lord Jesus come quickly.

I hope you enjoy the trip to the past with the following links to old Freeper Posts with comments. A treasure I found using the Way back Machine.

More, of Alamo-Girl's work . . .

FreeRepublic.com "A Conservative News Forum"

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NEWCOMERS: Welcome Center and Information Desk: Crime/Corruption Extended News News
Source: Various FR Posters
Published: 5/21/00 Author: Various FR Posters
Posted on 05/21/2000 09:32:20 PDT by Alamo-Girl

DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON
INTRODUCTION AND TABLE OF CONTENTS
Revised 5/21/00

The "Downside Legacy at Two Degrees of President Clinton" is the personal cyber-notepad of Alamo-Girl, the unofficial, unappointed secretary/archivist of what is the most active conservative political forum on the world wide web, the Free Republic. Forum participants refer to the list by its initials, DSL.

The DSL is limited to the downside (darkside) of William Jefferson Clinton and includes questionable people, circumstances and events surrounding Bill Clinton i.e., two degrees of separation from the Presidency. The focus at two degrees was deemed necessary to understand the downside of a powerful man who has many surrogates.

It is a reference tool used in research and educational projects on the forum. It is formatted as a list within the various groupings. Most entries are quotations of excerpts from sourced news articles, congressional records, press releases and transcripts. Some entries are derived as timelines and lists of names. The format is intended to help the reader locate a full range of sources applicable to a particular topic, a particular article or a group of related articles.

The DSL does not propose any theories or answer any questions. The DSL is dynamic, subject to continuing authentication, editing, correction and expansion.

Please post your corrections, edits and additions!!!

If you have Free Republic posting privileges, you can simply post a reply on any thread to my attention (Alamo-Girl)

If you aren't a Free Republic poster, or if you'd rather send a message privately, my email address is Alamo_Girl@hotmail.com

[NOTE: None of Alamo-Girl's links are working, but here is a small sample of her work:]

STATUS OF U.S. MILITARY:
OVERVIEW OF STATUS
DEFENSELESS AGAINST ICBMs
UNDERMANNED, POORLY EQUIPPED, SPREAD TOO THIN
POOR MORALE

STATUS OF U.S. INTELLIGENCE:
UNDERMANNED AND UNSUPPORTED
PIERCING SECURITY
ECHELON AND OTHER HIGH TECHNOLOGY
EXPORT CONTROL
TECHNOLOGY GIVE-AWAYS

BEHIND THE TREASON ALLEGATIONS - TIMELINES:
TO 1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999

BEHIND THE TREASON ALLEGATIONS - PEOPLE:
SANDY BERGER
RON BROWN
WILLIAM PERRY
HAZEL O'LEARY
JANET RENO - DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
ERIC HOLDER
IRA SOCKOWITZ
C. JOSEPH GIROIR, JR.
HENRY WAXMAN
JAMES C. WOOD, JR.
JUDGE ROBERTSON
JUDGE FRIEDMAN
JUDGE MORROW
STROBE TALBOTT
JOHN HUANG
THE CAST OF CHARACTERS

[Some reviews that Alamo-Girl posted after all that:]

Newsday Lou Dolinar 9/2/98
".Of late, I've been spending at lot of time at the Free Republic (www.freerepublic.com) Web site. Politically, the site's point of view ranges from conservative to round-the- right-bend, but you'll not find a more politically powerful use of Internet technology. "Freepers" as they call themselves, cull news stories and audio clips from all over the Net, post them in sequence on the site and then comment on them. It is sort of the ultimate clipping service for the anti-Washington, anti-Clinton crowd and a practice that harks back to the earliest days of colonial journalism, when every paper had its own well- expressed viewpoint and most stories were developed within that framework.
Although I rarely wax sloppily sentimental about the First Amendment, I think this is one of the strengths of the Internet-based news system, which is really no system at all, and exactly what the Founding Fathers had in mind. About the only thing wrong with it is that there is no Free Republic of the Left. As of late, this site has also been the best place to find out what the mainstream press is saying about the various Clinton scandals. As with Slate, this was once the sort of priceless material that took a couple of full-time White house aides to assemble into daily news summaries.."

Enter Stage Right 6/1/99 Steve Martinovich
"...That said, our winner for this past year is Free Republic, a web site I think has done a lot to further the goals of conservatism by uniting us in a large forum, giving us the ability to share information and ideas. It is the promise of the Internet realized. Here is the citation I wrote for Free Republic:
...The Free Republic offers the average conservative -- or anyone really -- a chance to comment on how the media is covering America's political scene. Frequent visitors to Free Republic -- or FReepers as they are known -- post stories from newspapers across the world about topics ranging from Whitewater to national identity cards and begin commenting on perceived media bias or just the about way that some stories are reported. FReepers (rumoured to include Larry Klayman and Gary Aldrich), and their less active brethren, are performing a valuable service by making the mainstream media accountable for their bias or genuine mistakes in reporting, something that the average citizen could not do effectively before the world wide web.
Over 100 000 people visit the Free Republic every day to scan headlines and maybe offer their own commentary to a large group of people on the latest issues and news stories, something that only the talking heads on their dreary Sunday morning television programs could do before....
That said, the Free Republic reminds me a lot of Matt Drudge. Drudge is an average member of society who is reporting on the events of his day from a small apartment room, while the Free Republic allows the average member of society to critique him and the rest of the media. Both are done by people who do not have the media's stamp of approval, which although has some dangers, also returns the United States to the days when the average person could publish pamphlets about something they believed in and receive a response....
Today's mainstream media has done a lot to smother and ignore the opinions of the public, but the Free Republic is attempting to bring that voice back. It's a service they perform well.

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DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON INTRODUCTION AND TABLE OF CONTENTS Revised 5/21/00

DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON
INTRODUCTION AND TABLE OF CONTENTS
Revised 5/21/00