Posted on 08/26/2002 9:57:23 AM PDT by mercy
Giving priority to what is most important, I have decided to swallow my pride. I had a dustup with a moderator. I lost. Though I think the moderators need a tuneup they ain't so bad really. I depend on them to keep this site from becomming a free for all whacko hate site. I used to push the abuse button quite frequently on my fave undesirables ... anti-semite, haters. I notice they're a bit thin around here lately.
It is most important that Free Republic live and thrive. It is less important that I get things my way around here. Though I do not agree completely with the proposition that it is Jim's site and he can do with it what he damn will pleases ... It's as much our site, collectively, as it is his now. Perhaps Jim does ride herd a bit too hard on this creation he gave birth to. Fact is I don't know. I simply don't have enough information.
But it is a given that FR is the best there is at what it does. If it's only my morning paper and a place to exercise my verbal skills ... it's worth supporting. Now is the time for all level headed thinking FReepers to come to the aid of our wounded friend ... Free Republic.
Sounds good to me but for some reason I don't think JR would agree. For the vote to mean something it would have to be somewhere where all freepers could see it and vote, JR ain't gonna do that and I don't blame him. The loss of registered doesn't degrade the worth of this website in any way that matters. The loss of one will be offset by gaining new members, any one of us can be replaced.
Go back and read the 9/11 threads and type that tripe again. I work in a back office at a manufacturing plant and had it not been for Free Republic, no telling when I would have found out about the attacks on America. Instead, I read about the first plane flying into the WTC just moments after it happened and minutes later, pictures appeared in the thread. I was able to find an old black and white tv at the office, hooked up some rabbit ears, and watched the rest of the attacks unfold before my eyes.
Sure you'll see some propaganda around occasionally, but this is the internet - home to countless anonymous faces. I consider Free Republic full of patriotic Americans, veterans, and conservatives and I try to surround myself with folks of like mind.
You were saying about internecine warefare?
"While you're reinstating your monthly why don't you slip on over to your profile page an fly your state flag?"
This one?
I feel the same way when I read people who claim that a traffic stop is a 'constitutional crisis' or that Claire Wolfe is some patriot or that cop-killers can be excused or refrained from being condemned.
(Poohbah is kicks at clods of dirt, head down, pouting) JimRob recodes the site to keep all of the other kids out. It's not FAIR!
If I recall he was not banned .. he just had a time out
Registered can come back any time he wants .. but that is up to him .. we can't force him to post
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