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Posted on 06/25/2002 3:42:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
The following email is being circulated to our members by various disgruntled former FReepers:
Subject: The Future of Our Free RepublicDear Fellow Free Republic Member,
Many of us at Free Republic are distressed by the extraordinary level of censorship that has been so obviously going on. It is very obvious that individual posts, entire threads, and the entire work of members who have been highly regarded are disappearing into a Memory Hole.
Scores of us have organized an e-mail network that is independent of the communication controls presently, and sadly, being used at our Free Republic. We have carefully documented the unmistakeable evidence that most of the posts, threads, and posters that are vaporized completely are overwhelmingly targeted for their political stance on the Right. These are not Leftwingers. These are not even Middle-of-the-Roaders. These are not disruptors. These are not foul-mouthed delinquents. These are fellow patriots on the Right who disagree with the controllers of FR on specific issues that are now hotly debated by the Right. We have documented that FR will parade before you, as if to hide all of the great posters whose work has been destroyed, a straw-man delinquent that has been banned. This is deceptive.
Treating these fellow patriots on the Right so shabbily is not right. As shabbily as those banned into the Memory Hole are being treated, the most shabbily treated of all are all of the good folks on Free Republic themselves. We came here for honest debate. Free Republic advertised itself as a Forum for honest debate. Without that honest debate...everything at Free Republic becomes shabby.
We can do much better. As a measure of how intense the simmering feelings have gotten among members on this unjustifiable use of deleting, censoring, and banning please link to the following thread. You will notice that one simple and sincere plea from one of our finest members has spontaneously touched off a prairie fire of approximately 500 posts in a mere 18 hours. If it isn't Memory Holed this thread may shoot into the thousands.
If you would like to receive anonymous updates of information concerning the hundreds of Freepers who have networked via e-mail to restore the wonderful honest debate to Free Republic, just drop an e-mail of just one or two words if you like for extreme brevity to:
StopCensoringUs@hotmail.com
And, here's that link back to the snowballing thread at FR:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/704701/posts
Thank you so much for giving your thought to this vital matter for our Internet home.
Sincerely, StopCensoringUs@hotmail.com
For the longest time, we had a sign on our refrigerator door that said
In the grand scheme of things, I'd say Billy Graham is more truthful & trustworthy than anything out of Sam Francis' tush.
Dare I say their name?
(Pause)
Yes, I won't keep it hidden anymore. It's ... oh, no ... they're breaking down my doors ... aaauuughhh!
I have thought about it.
Now I wonder what Gore would have done that GWB hasn't.
I wish I would've had one of those signs. Remembering those lovely teen years gives me post-traumic stress syndrome & my eye twitch comes back--and when I couldn't decide between a convent in Quebec, suspended animation or cryogenic freezing.
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Is "republicans have disappointed me yet again by spending like drunken big-government sailors" crap OK?
The noise you hear on Election night will be the "I'm staying at homers" when Erskine Bowles wins.
Now the truth can be revealed ...
The true rulers of the world are members of .. 
Higher taxes.
Far more tears post 9/11, from the ex pres too. Less sincerity.
Just finished negotiating the peace treaty with Osama. $4 billion in aid and we give him Sudan.
His brothers donate $50million to the DNC and $5million in trust for the future Al Gore library.
Secretary of Defense Harold Ickes and Secretary of State Donna Brazile returning from a mideast peace conference.
Israel relocating to Greenland, $55million donation from the Saudis.
Tony Coelho at the Treasury.
Bill Daley on the Supreme Court
His clothes advisor (forgot her already) at the expanded Dept. of Education.
Justice Department 2nd Ammendment suit proceeding under Attorney General Terry McAuliffe as is the assault box cutter bill (no blades over 2” and purchase 2 per month)
Tipper orders new steak knives for the White House, pre ban.
Legislation barring terrorist internet sites, targeting JR and the right wing conspiracy.
You’re joking, aren’t you?
Right on!
Isn't this the guy who called for the deportation of Hispanics (legal or otherwise)? He also said that African Americans should not given the right to make decisions in this country.
I have listened to Art Bell a few times. Not many because I usually can't stay up late enough.
But best I remember he just lets people that call in say what they think.
He has guests that have a book to sell.
He didn't call them a kook.
He just listens to them and the callers.
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