Putting up with you? Oh, please! You have made our lives as conservatives full of hope and a way forward. Here's what should be put up with you:
Thank you very much, Big Giant Head!!
The March for Justice was a truly inspiring event and that was entirely due to the FReepers. Will never forget it for as long as I live. The FReepers who attended and the ones who worked so hard to make it successful are true patriots!!
I’m very sorry if I get emotional. Pent up emotion is what drove me to start FR and also drove me to go to DC. I’d never done anything like that it my entire life. I am not a protester. Totally missed the 60’s as I was off fighting the commies.
I had been posting against Clinton and the dem’s corruption for several years on Prodigy, but was frustrated that there were only a few hundred posting and reading on that private ($$$) forum, so decided to open up the discussion to the entire world on the Internet where anyone with a computer and modem could read our posts for free.
Within a couple years after opening the FR forum I was threatened and sued by the ultra liberal progressive LA Times and Washington Post, but being the stubborn, emotional man that I am, I was bound to continue trying to save my liberty so spat in their face.
Then in the fall of ‘98, some of Clinton’s unionist/communist goons viciously attacked one of our FReepers who was peacefully protesting in the City of Brotherly Love (Brotherly love? Now ain’t that the truth? How far we have fallen). When I saw them attack and draw blood on Don Adams and his sister broadcast on the nightly news I told Sheila, that does it. I’ve got to go to DC. She agreed, so I posted that on FR and the FReepers agreed, and many started making plans that night to join me and the March for Justice was born.
The March for Justice was a beautiful event. Thousands of conservatives and Republicans turning out on a sunny October day, in DC, to openly protest on LIVE TV and call for the impeachment of a corrupt democrat president. Republicans are usually too reserved to get out in the public and protest, but not on this day. And it was broadcast live on C-Span and we began getting emails and new sign-ups from all across the country.
My own nephew saw it on TV and later told me that he was shocked to see me “call out” the president of the United States and challenge him to a fist fight on our stage. I didn’t even realize I had done that until I watched a replay. Sure enough, I got so emotional on that stage that I pointed across the green lawn toward the White House and told Bill Clinton that we had been here on this stage in his back yard for several hours insulting him and his wife on national TV, and if he were any kind of man, he would come over here to defend their honor and he and I would go to town, right here, right now!
Well, we eventually lost, er, settled the million dollar lawsuit with the Washington Post and had to start excerpting, but we didn’t lose the fight with president Clinton. He did get impeached and that’s in the history books, though the wimpy Republican senate led by turncoat Trent Lott let him off the hook. I lost a lot of respect in the Republican party as a conservative force that day and other than a few shining moments with GWB, the Republicans have continued their squishiness trend ever since.
I do get emotional when I see liberty spiraling down the drain. Free Republic is dedicated to securing the Blessings of God’s Liberty to ourselves and our posterity. I’m now nearing the end of my days on earth, so it’s starting to get urgent for me. I regret that I have but one life to give for our children’s liberty. And I hate to see the Republicans piss it away with the very worst liberal progressive candidate ever to run for the presidency as a Republican. That’s just the way I am.
Thank you all very much for putting up with me.
God bless.
Putting up with you? Oh, please! You have made our lives as conservatives full of hope and a way forward. Here's what should be put up with you:
God bless you Jim..
and thank you for putting up with me...
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Putting up with you?
I love you truly and unconditionally, dearest Jim!
You’re my hero!
From the bottom of my heart, God Bless you Jim! And thank you so very much for all that you do and for giving us Free Republic! You are an inspiration to us all!
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We love you, Jim.
I found FR around 1999. I lurked for a year or two and finally joined around 2000 or so. This site has been a saving grace to me. I think I got a blister on my index finger refreshing every two minutes during the 2000 election. I still visit a few others sites, but they never seem to be as up to the minute or have as many intelligent posters as we have here.
Jim, thank you for allowing me to see that there are others who have the same thoughts and frustrations as I do. It helps to keep the sanity.
TC
While FR folks have done other great things (especially Kristinn DC group with the Walter Read weekly thing), and I've participated in some ... You, BobJ, JoyinDC, jolly, CAL, myself, and the many many volunteers will always have "The March For Justice".
Just wish I had the time to watch the festivities, especially with Neil assisting you in front of the opening ceremony with all the State flags. But duty called me everywhere on the grounds as you may recall. Unlike the liberal demonstrations of the time and now, we left the grounds immaculate.
Bless you old Patriot. I'm truly sorry I let Mojo get into my head with their anti-freeper nonsense. I just hope somewhere you saw me defending you and your family. Still, no excuse. One of my biggest regrets - hope some day you will forgive me.
Best to you and yours,
Rodger Hunter
USN: 1975-1986
Patriot Guard Rider;
Wounded Warrior supporter;
VetsCoR co-founder;
Stand Up For America; on the streets before FR activism. Remember our efforts to stop the Chi-coms (COSCO) from leasing the closed historic Long Beach Naval Station? We won that one.