I suppose it hasn't ocurred to you that instead of ignoring the posts that inflame you and moving on, or injecting a reasonable point of debate to the posts by whom you describe as "lesser lights"...{pretty condescending description, BTW} you have Instead attacked by name and accused FReepers of libel { SEE: The Law: Libel Liability: Test for Public Figures}. Beck and Mitt ARE public figures.
Your attempt at trying to disprove the label of Joseph Smith as "rapist" was pitable. If you were to really look into his history, you would find he used coercion and threats against any woman who denied him sex.
You have attempted to "school" long-time FReepers on not only the rules of the forum but the wishes of the forum owner and by doing so have provided everyone reading this thread with a portrait of yourself as one who is indulging in "self aggrandizement".
You state: "I have been mostly ignoring crap on this thread"...and I state that a good deal of the "crap" has come from YOUR keyboard.
Whether it was your intention to paint yourself as a defender of Romney on a forum where the owner has made it plain that there will BE no defense of Romney, you have done so.
The Flying Inmans have done battle on FR against the religion of the Romneys, the Becks and now the Huntsmans for several years and faced opponents who have attempted to see us banned, and who have threatened FR with the loss of their donations if that did not succeed. We have been called Nazis, jihadists, arsonists, and of course your favorite, "bigots" innumerable times. This is nothing new to us.
You really have brought nothing to the conversation except an unusually vivid picture of someone who lets his alligator mouth overrun his hummingbird hind end.
Very nice overview, GF, from a veteran poster.
Good enough. I am familiar with these legal terms. I have been encouraged not to discuss the issue.
This is the first time I have crossed the Flying Inmans, and you have clearly and cogently stated the chaos that follows you. I am now and will continue to be a supporter of this site. I like some of the things that I have seen you post, but on balance I don't care for the lot of you. If that gets me banned, then I will join that crowd.
To the headline “hell no”!