I have never seen the anger that I saw on here this past week at Freepers that have been here for a long time if you dared question anything or make a statement that wasn't 100% pro-Terri. I saw people make posts about taking guns into Court and shooting judges. Wanting the President or Jeb to send in troops to have a shootout with the local police and then praising Keyes for saying have a shoot-out with the Sheriff went over the top for me.
When anyone pointed out the Schindler lawyers were bad and their pleadings left the Federal Court Judges no choice, they got mad. The worst was the threads on Jesse Jackson -- disgusting!
I thought Conservatives wanted Judges that ruled on the Law not activist judges but I was wrong about a lot of people on here. Then when they started saying that America was no good that just about did it for me but I have stayed for now.
Will not back down on what I believe and I believe that all of this on Terri has not been good for this forum. There is too much hate when someone tries to post facts if it doesn't suit their agenda. But yet we have a ton of vanities with half truths and lies which are allowed to stand.
I am proud of my Country and will remain proud -- anyone that puts down President Bush or Governor Bush because they didn't send in the troops to rescue Terri are not people I want to know. I believe in the Rule of Law and if the laws are bad work to change them don't take them into their hands. I am pro-life but I will not be taken in by Jesse Jackson grandstanding when he is pro-abortion and be trashed about it.
There is a lot of hurt by some longtime Freepers that this Forum was taken over by new posters that wanted anarchy and the laws to be trashed and old posters who some of us have had problems with since we first came on here. There was no sane discussion and still isn't. Thought we used to have a rule on vanities -- no longer -- if it is about Terri all vanities are allowed to stand no matter how wrong they are of if they came from new posters.
For now I will stay on the threads about the Pope where most Freepers are just talking back and forth and relating what we are seeing.
My two cents!
Bump to an excellent post.
So what? I was on plenty of Terri threads, and as emotional as many. But I drew the line at blaming Jeb, Dubya or others. And I caught some occasional flak for it. Didn't lose a wink of sleep, either.
The generalizations about this forum deteriorating and maybe it's time to leave are just plain silly in my book. But I still luv ya! ;-)
That's not accurate.
Exactly right. Good post, PhiKapMom. Of course, the unappeasables will argue with you. LOL
But to be honest, very few of the freepers I have known for 6 years have.
Most of the radicals / agents provocateurs have a sign on date no earlier than 2004 or have climbed out of the religion forums where I never entered.