Posted on 11/21/2002 1:06:48 AM PST by Clinton Is Scum
You and your cohorts have yet to produce any such "racist drivel" from American Patrol or VDare nor anything nearly equating to a rally for "machine-gunning the spicks[sic]" of which you accused American Patrol.
Yet your slander continues unabated. Talk about someone who has an over-inflated view of his own opinion who litters threads with dozens of mindless vanity posts.
Mindlessly calling someone a fascist....blah, blah, blah...defending enforced political correctness...blah, blah, blah...etc, etc, etc...talk of enforcing borders is hate speech...blah, blah, blah...ad hominem...play the race card...yadda, yadda, yadda...
I once had you pegged as a conservative. Your behavior, as I summarized above, clearly proves I was mistaken. Wouldn't your type be more comfortable at DUh or Salon?
Off to remedial civics class with you - the First Amendment doesn't apply to a private entity like FR.
Robinson created Free Republic in 1996 out of shear frustration. He was dissatisfied with the current Presidential administration (the "Clinton Administration") and with the "mainstream" media coverage of its policies and activities. Robinson was frustrated with the inability on other internet sites and alternative forums to engage in a completely free and open discussion of news and politics -- especially by dissenters to the current Presidential Administration's policies and activities and dissenters to the "mainstream" media coverage of same. Before creating Free Republic, Robinson frequented other internet discussion sites and was frustrated by their censorship and restrictions on free expression of ideas.
I repeat: Your insistence that YOUR philosophy must be pushed to the head of the line, even if the owners of this site don't agree, is very reminiscent of the Nazi Germany policies that required a photograph of Der Fuehrer prominently displayed in every shop--subject to a visit by the Brown Shirts.
I repeat: This isn't your site. No one is forbidding you to go to AP or VDARE or StormFront or any of those places. Go there and wallow to your heart's content.
But you CONTINUALLY bring up this subject, time after time on these silly vanities. If I were the Robinsons, I would have suspended you long since because you keep badgering them on the subject despite being told what the policy is, and that you aren't owed an explanation.
The very fact that you continue to be able to yammer on in this mindless pursuit of your silly agenda is all the proof anyone needs that your accusations of "repression" are just bogus.
Then do what JimRob did: Go start your own website (or quit this one entirely and hang out all you like at VDARE).
It is, always has been and always will be.
The problem with some folks around here tho, is that they forget that that freedom of speech works both ways. As the owner of this site, he has the freedom to allow or disallow the postings of his choice.
There is an ominous cloud hanging over the First Amendment at the "Free" Republic. We can no longer discuss controversial issues like immigration and affirmative action without worrying about being banned from the site. JimBob will receive no more contributions from this FReeper.As I posted on the other thread:
...There is no good reason to antagonize the host of this forum, IMHO.In my experience, you can get MUCH better results by working WITH people in authority than you can by trying to fight against them, particularly if they are on OUR SIDE, as Jim is - for the most part. :o)
As you certainly must know, "censorship" and the First Amendment are issues that apply primarily to government-controlled forms of expression, and generally NOT to privately operated concerns like Free Republic.Not sure exactly why Jim is against VDARE, but if he does not want their stuff posted here, we will need to work around that - for now - unless and until we can get him to change his mind about that.
I am a BIG proponent of PRAGMATISM. Let us accept whatever help Jim Robinson is currently prepared to provide in the promotion of Michelle's ideas, and remember that MANY folks who have to deal with the realities of the intellectual marketplace need to operate as Caesar's wife: above even the APPEARANCE of impropriety, from http://www.dl.ket.org/latinlit/mores/religion/bonadea.htm:
Bona Dea Scandal
Each year the Vestal Virgins, together with a select group of patrician ladies, conducted a secret rite to the Bona Dea. Traditionally this ceremony was conducted in the home of the Pontifex Maximus.
In the year (62 BC) following the consulship of Cicero and the destruction of the Catalinarian conspiracy the office of Pontifex Maximus (a political not religious appointment) was held by none other than Julius Caesar. According to tradition, all males, even male animals, were excluded from the event. Caesar was of course absent for this particular evening when the ceremony, planned by his wife Pompeia, is said to have occurred.
At this point, the story becomes part fact and part fiction. Many have written of the scandal over the years and I have tried to give you what I view as common theory. Since Pompeia was herself not the most stable of women, Caesar's respected and noble mother, Aurelia,was in charge of the details. She noticed one woman, heavily cloaked, tall and with an affected tone in her voice. She prided herself in knowing every guest and could not place this individual. She asked a servant girl to keep an eye on the unknown guest who lost control of his affected voice and was discovered to be a man. He escaped from the house without definitive recognition.
Rumors flew. No one doubted but that it was Clodius. It was not unlike him to play wild pranks even with so sacred an event at this ceremony. One story reported that he and Pompeia were having an affair and she had smuggled him into her house. This was a difficult rumor to deter. An impiety had occurred and conservative Romans were very upset. Caesar divorced Pompeia with a quote of unknown origins "Caesar's wife must be above suspicion." There was no proof of Pompeia's involvement, just suspicion...more
I see no "cloud" hanging over the First Amendment here; No one is preventing you from setting up your own public soapbox to say what you want.
As "owner" of this little community that we call Free Republic, Jim has determined that there are a number of sites whose content is not welcome. He has said nothing of the subject matter.
I think he was polite, yet firm on the matter. That certainly does not indicate a bias as far as I can determine -- unless I've missed something somewhere.
To prove you can't make a decent argument, you bring up Nazi Germany and Hitler. Truly classic and totally predictable.
Never mind the fact that I'm not asking Jim to push "my" philosophy to "the head of the line". But don't let that stop you from spouting more lies.
I repeat: This isn't your site. No one is forbidding you to go to AP or VDARE or StormFront or any of those places. Go there and wallow to your heart's content.
I have nothing to do with Stormfront, thank you very much. I'm not saying that anyone is forbidding me from visiting any site I want or that it is my site. I made a reasonable request for an explanation. Why is it that you have to interject yourself into such questions with your slander, personal attacks, nazi-references, race-baiting, and other crap!?
But you CONTINUALLY bring up this subject, time after time on these silly vanities. If I were the Robinsons, I would have suspended you long since because you keep badgering them on the subject despite being told what the policy is, and that you aren't owed an explanation.
I did not start this thread. I didn't start the earlier threads. I've not been told what, precisely, the "policy" is (if one exists) nor have I been told by anyone other than you that I'm not owed an explanation. Neither am I the only one requesting such an explanation.
The very fact that you continue to be able to yammer on in this mindless pursuit of your silly agenda is all the proof anyone needs that your accusations of "repression" are just bogus.
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