Posted on 02/11/2005 10:55:36 AM PST by Jim Robinson
The shot heard around the Internet has been fired on FreeRepublic.com The owner Jim Robinson and his moderators have launched a sniper style purge against members that disagree with the President’s ‘guest worker’ amnesty or support more control of illegal immigration. Free Republic is an amazing tool for those looking for a good debate and news from around the country.
The problem for the administration of the site is that their creation is allowing the participants to learn that the Bush immigration record and plans are shockingly out of line with the views of most conservatives. The management’s answer to this conflict between the majority of conservatives and the influence of the White House on their Web site has become electronic executions and censorship.
Members and readers of Free Republic would be surprised to know that many members of their community have fallen silent on the discussions about illegal immigration lately because free speech is an illusion on FR.com. They are silent because they have been banned from the Web site without warning, cause, or explanation in most cases. For weeks the moderators have been suspending and banning new members that chimed in quickly on the immigration debates.
Now this trend has broadened as the first groups of long-term users were suspended or banned this past week. Although Robinson and his staff removed many members of the Free Republic community in the first few days of the purge, those that religiously support President Bush’s immigration plan, open borders and approve of public benefits for illegal aliens remain on the forum. Those that were banned were the members that wanted more done to control illegal immigration and a strict observance to the President’s Oath of Office.
Please you can do better to describe your drama queen moroseness than paraphrasing jerry nadler,
"There is a whiff of fascism in the air", jerry nadler D-NY, Florida, November 2000.
What is this lunatic talking about? I have heard more people oppose Bush's immigration policies than support it, and they're all still here. Including me.
Agreed.
He actually left me out of such an esteemed group? I'm insulted......
Quick; do something!
Check this out, the infamous Kitty Cat dance!
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/kittycat.php
hehehehehe
The park rangers at Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument wear camouflage, carry assault rifles, and chase drug smugglers through the blazing desert. They're at the front lines of a violent border war—and they're losing.In August, a park ranger, 28-year-old Kris Eggle, was killed while helping Border Patrol agents catch two men suspected by Mexican officials in a drug-related quadruple murder. The men had driven a stolen SUV through one of many holes in the fence that separates the park from the Mexican state of Sonora.National geographic Yep...even liberal NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC gets the picture.
MarketR, do you happen to know what the invaders, when armed, are carrying? How efficacious is a .22 pistol against an/several AK-47 armed drug smuggler(s)? have you ever heard the term "don't bring a knife to a gunfight"? How about "God is on the side of the heaviest artillery"? It takes guts to throw oneself into the breach like this. If these invaders are shooting at, and killing our border patrolmen and park rangers (which they are) Drug Seizures and Armed Smugglers Dangerous parks Dangerous parks per NPS Murdered Park Ranger Drugs runners in our National Parks Do you think they'd hesitate to do the same to an unarmed citizen or a citizen armed only with a "sidearm"? With all due respect, before you criticize others (from the comfort of your armchair, in the finest 'armchair patriot' style) who have the GUTS and temerity to put their asses on the line out of love for this nation I think it is incumbent to know WHATINHELLYERTALKIN'ABOUT
lol! I think you're a riot!!! : )
I'm making a special plea for everyone to step back, to think of each other as brothers and sisters in Christ and try to be nicer to each other.
I am also thoughtless and can be cutting, too. We all need to take a moment to edit what we say to each other.
asgardshill knows from our personal private discussions that I think he is pretty hardheaded about this also.
I oppose illegal immigration and strongly favor sealing our borders so that we can control who comes in. May I express such sentiments on your site?
I appreciate what Jim Robinson has done. However, he banned me several times because I wasn't the candidate they supported.
(thus i'll find someone to trash him and i'll post it on my website.)
this punk loser makes me sick.
Amen!!!
Spokeshave dead set against illegal immigration, no amnesty for illegals and certainly no driving licences.
What about in posts here, or do you think anything should go?
Patty, that rant of asgardshill's was completely out of line.
One does not move in and out of that kind of insanity, and remain outside an institution.
One or the other side of him is disingenuous. And regardless of which side is the real asgardshill, I'd steer clear of him were I you........
You're as bitter, immature and irrelevant as always. :-D
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