Posted on 10/10/2003 2:23:07 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Edited on 10/10/2003 2:27:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Dear Free Republic Friends,
My old friend and brother-in-arms BADJOE has promised to warm the cockles of our hearts by publishing an expose (the truth about JimRob and Free Republic according to Joe) on the 18th of this month, which represents the one year anniversary of the date he last posted to FreeRepublic.com and started up with LibertyPost.org.
So, as I believe that only the truth can set you free, and based upon the stratergery of pre-emptive strike, I have a confession to make (before BADJOE makes it public):
I have poisoned the well.
By my sly innuendos behind the scenes.
By my intellectual ineptitude.
By not trusting those that brung me to the dance to bring me home.
By my biting every hand that fed me.
By my arrogance that causes me to think I did it all by myself.
By my stubborness not because of principle, but because of my lack of ability to see what is transpiring.
Evidenced by:
One would think that with half again as many Freepers. with a recovering economy, It would take a great deal less time to raise the necessary funds.
By this time in the June 2002 effort with a goal of $70,000 we had raised $73,000. Not because of who did the fundraising, but because the sense of purpose, of family, of comaraderie, was still present.
BADJOE rang the warning bell, but none heard.
Conclusion:
It is a sad day.
For what was once a great hope, a means of bringing together those who are willing to pay dearly in blood, sweat, and money to save this country, we all love, has been reduced to an asterisk.
So sayeth BADJOE as he promises to publish all this and much more on the 18th. He's been feverishly working on this "project" for one full year. In addition to the "truth about JimRob" BADJOE intends to further betray our trust placed in him by revealing the names of our moderators. And who knows what else?
I can hardly wait.
Is it the 18th yet? Tick, tock.
Oh I do agree! God bless you, rintense!
This definitely bears repeating, Dales. I can't imagine anyone "going after" A-G; it's simply absurd to me.
Thank you so much for your sound and just proposal -- the very model of reason and sanity. I hope we will all embrace it. It is 'way past time for the absurdity to end.
Without betraying information given in confidence (not by Alamo-Girl) there are issues re: stalking that go beyond her, and even beyond FreeRepublic. I'm not even saying this involves ALS, only because this would be saying too much. Suffice to say there may be more involved than you know here (and if you do know, shame on you).
You have just put your foot in your mouth so deeply that I think you will need an operation to get it out. Being civil is 'hamstringing' the evos. That says it all. Not bashing Christianity, is hamstringing the evos, that speaks completely about the evolutionist agenda on the threads also.
Treating others with respect and not attacking religion was STILL IN the final form of the agreement (the one you refused to sign). Care to try again?
ALS's "gotchas" for the evolutionists had to do with the way he set things up so that showing someone they were wrong could be considered a violation.
Now what where the odds of that, really:
Vanity: Free Republic controlled by the RNC; Rove/Bush muzzle dissenters; mistreat FReepers
[Ich:] No such claim of any such "right" exists within The Agreement.
[Gore3000:] A lie. It is called the 'troll' provision, the right to call someone a troll and a disruptor at will.
Hardly "at will". As written into the agreement, it was to be used only after a poster had repeatedly violated the agreement and refused to reform even after several other specific steps were taken, including a gentle reminder. It was not there to allow the "right" to "insult people", it was there to provide a mechanism for chronic violators of the civility agreement to be recognized as such and treated accordingly (i.e. ignored).
Under the agreement the only people who could be "insulted" by being labeled a troll or disruptor would be those who were, well, being trolls or disruptors -- and who had refused invitations to stop doing so.
Patrick Henry held up the agreement for days to have it inserted
...because the agreement needed some sort of mechanism to deal with those who purposely refused to abide by it. That mechanism was to 1) ask them to reform, 2) identify them as the disruptors that they were, 3) ignore them.
This proposal passed by a majority vote of the folks who chose to participate in the drafting.
- and thus destroy the agreement from within.
I find it interesting that the clause on how to identify and ignore disruptors was the sticking point for most of the creationists and none of the evolutionists.
Easier said than done. I've already *been* on a lot of threads where religion was not at issue only to have some folks do everything they can to *make* it the focus. Again, this thread is a good example, as are a great number of the science threads (which began with an uncontroversial article on some recent science discovery).
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