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
I hope you are right.
Geez, OWK. If you don't recognize the style of that letter (and it is sorta kinda unmistakable), then I suggest some extra-strong coffee for you.
Another Junior G-Man puts the collar on this one, with his official plastic badge and handwriting analysis kit.
Lol. I don't see a collar. Do you see a collar? Do you see G-men under your bed or just hidden behind your shower curtains?
We both know who wrote that thingy, if you have half a brain which isn't certain. It is the only person I know with an FR obsession and scoring 14 out of 10 on the pomposity index. You can ask him if his initials are M.E. That might provide some fun ;)).
Always knew there was something cheramic about you, OWK :)).
Is that the same Bill Graham that proclaimed to millions of Americans that Bill Clintoon was the second coming of Jesus Christ????????????????????????
You haven't even read the posts on this thread let alone any other threads. Your ridiculously simplistic comments are an affront to every FReeper who abides by the rules of this forum. Get a life.
While I am stronly pro-Israel, American Jews in general have not been a positive influence on society due to their support of liberalism and their materialism.
If you want to accuse me of anti-Semitism, then you can shove it.
And if what I say offends many of the anti-Christian crowd here at the so-called "freerepublic" then so what. Freerepublic has been taken over by atheistic libertarians. The censorship here is out of control.
If jimbob robinson want to engage in petty censorship, this is is his site. He can do so. But true conservatives should leave this cesspool.
Now, you get a life.
Take your meds and when you regain your reasoning powers please explain what you are talking about.
You're truly a nutcase, zip. You belong here at the so-called "freerepublic" with the rest of the anti-Christian, PC crowd.
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