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
Was it roundabout the same time you gave up bathing and brushing your teeth Cletus?
No big surprise. You have to blame somebody, don't you?
Yes we all have a point of view.
But you must watch out. Your point of view might get you banned.
Kissy, Kissy.
Must not make joke... Must not make joke....
Am I working?
Are you saying Jim Robinson said "UP Yours"?
HeeHeee!
Someone actually has to do the hard work necessary to rebutt it.Who? Who's doing it? Where are those "rebutting" the jerks who come over here to disrupt and then post and laugh about it over there? How effectual is their rebuttal? It does nothing.
it can't just be stuffed down the memory hole...There must be another memo floating out there besides Vallandigham's. The other one must have all these phrases that seem to be coming out of many people's mouths, just like when the Democrats send out Terry McCauliffe's points and then all the talking heads and lefty politicians start saying the exact same thing. Memory hole. Cult. Bushbot. There are a few others.
For a bunch of free thinkers, a whole lot of people are sounding an awful lot alike lately.
Fear not... If you keep gripin about 'em, they'll get banned.That sounds like another one.They always do.
It is almost like a drumbeat.
and not FRillions?It'll be the Frillion Man March, I tell ya.
Agreed. The moral-liberals have found their new home, and we wish them the best of luck in their ongoing political fantasies.
I think that cuts both ways Dales. Jim didn't exactly endear himself by trying to pin that email on LF.
Someone actually has to do the hard work necessary to rebutt it. Who? Who's doing it?
I have on many an occasion.
Where are those "rebutting" the jerks who come over here to disrupt and then post and laugh about it over there?
C'mon Dales... aren't ya'll taking yourselves just a bit too seriously?
How effectual is their rebuttal? It does nothing.
That's how it goes. Sometimes their criticisms are valid.
There must be another memo floating out there besides Vallandigham's. The other one must have all these phrases that seem to be coming out of many people's mouths, just like when the Democrats send out Terry McCauliffe's points and then all the talking heads and lefty politicians start saying the exact same thing. Memory hole. Cult. Bushbot. There are a few others. For a bunch of free thinkers, a whole lot of people are sounding an awful lot alike lately.
Careful dude... that sounds suspiciously like tinfoil to me.
They'll be coming for you next.
A few posts back howlin said.
To: OneidaM; Dales; Cultural Jihad; Roscoe
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Is he claiming squatters rights?
Why don't they just LEAVE?????????????????
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Its amazinely telling, who he bumps and what he wants. Division. Any weakening in our common battle against gubmint corruption is their success. They're here, pettily picking, driving a wedge here, ridiculing there, causing resentment. Bitterness is their reward. They're here at FR because they sensed the power of our common goal. They came, they divided, they continue to divide. I haven't been to LF (libertyforum.com?), but if they start to have any unity these vultures will show up there, in a different guise.
Since freerepublic has been taken over by Christian-haters and the like, I wonder if the forum over at Newsmax is decent.Why don't you go and find out? Or is it that you want the people who choose to be here to go where you go?
Go. If they choose you over Jim, great for you! I am sure he will wish you God Bless.
If they don't, well, I guess that would say something.
At first, I loved the place - it was a nice vacation from FR for a libertarian-minded fellow like myself.
All of the sudden, the Neo-Nazis show up. There are folks there who believe that the U.S.S. Cole was blown up by Israelis, and that David Duke has been on the fedgov payroll for years to make GOPers look good! And they post that crap with impunity! And they dominate each discussion with their fixation on Jews!
I got fed up. I did not write an opus, and I did not demand that the owners (good Americans) of the site cater to my needs. I simply walked away, and only lurked yesterday because of the link provided. (If you don't believe me, ask tex-oma - I disagree with her on many issues, and I went to bat for her at LF, but she's of course no Neo-Nazi.)
I wish John Deere and the other PTB the best of luck on a forum that has a great deal of potential.
If you do not like the way things are done here, why not be like Pardek and walk away? (BTW - I plan on giving it a second shot when the place goes public, and the Neo-Nazi one-toothers will have competition.
Remember Jenin!
My gosh, Lady. Demi is one of the best conservatives we have here.
Why are you attacking him?
It would appear that the pretend Admiral has some make-believe knowledge.
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