Posted on 06/25/2002 3:42:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
An oldie but a goodie (and started by yours truly): Are there any nonreligious conservatives on FR?
This one went to a second thread, for a total of over 400 replies. By and large, a very polite thread. I'm kinda proud of it, as it was one of my first couple of posts at FR.
It wouldn't leave enough room for all the anti-Freepers.
Ah, good. Thanks for the reply.
Awwwwk! Censorship! Censorship! Haven't you people ever heard of the first amendment? We have a right to post whatever we wish on your site! I don't like the rules. Sounds like a country club for the intellectually elite. more patriotic than thou crowd. You must be afraid of dissenting opinion. Squaaaak! Somebody hold me back before I post on there again!!
Oh no they aren't!!!! DUH! Didn't you see the "R" they wear? Sheesh.....you'd have us think that President Nixon was as corrupt as the Perverted Prez? Well, he wasn't.....so what that he lied, so what he tried to sic government agents on citizens, so what he tried to obstruct justice, was an accessory to a crime, and undoubtedly a lot of other crimes! There's an "R" there!
Any "R" is better than any "D", "C", "L", or "Re"! Get used to it. < /sarcasm >
I would like to see a strong conservative/libertarian(small l) majority as well, and I'm working here on it with the local party. I've seen your old quotes from 99, and I think both of us have changed a little since IMO, we're both realists.
Right now in Michigan, we have a good strong conservative running for Carl Lenin's seat, and a good conservative candidate for governor, attorney general, and secretary of state.
As irked as I have been with Bush lately, I'm not going to punish the rest of the ticket, or worry about 2004 when we have a fight in our own backyard this year. Dick Posthumus is a good guy and went to bat for us(MCRGO), as have Rocky, and and Mike Cox.
I don't want to see Jenny Granholm as our next gov. Think of Bill Klinton without the sex scandals but the communist views.
BTW - I'd love to see a Governor Simon.
That truth being their equipment cannot handle a large influx at this time and they are working on the programming enhancements, etc.
Further, there was an effort for members to nominate those who could add to the debate process...to weed out the 'eschoirs' of the world...so that when people came to visit the site, they wouldn't be swamped with junk comments, pics of the beautiful crowd, yada yada, but find a place where issues of liberty, freedom, governance are discussed--and yet there is a place for the occasional humor. Regional issues are discussed as well as national and international.
Im not sure what bogus innuendo youre referring to or what truth you seem to think Im suppressing. I simply said:
I was responding to the E Mails statement that Among the reasons for this back channel of communication are to help folks like [name omitted]: a)find new and other forums on the Internet where their fine writing can be effective (like LibertyForum.org and LibertyPost),, which would seem to imply that its open to all, in contrast to FRs censorship. Its not.
I admit my interest in posting there has waned. Intentional or not, Id suggest that their method of admitting beta testers "by invitation" has imposed a defacto if not intentional censorship of the viewpoints expressed.
It is not at this time, as the letter states, a free speech alternative for anyone other than invitees. Whether deliberate or simply a function of banned freepers congregating with ex Sam Fancis posters, this creates a continuity of thought.
This may be for good technical reasons, and may change when membership is opened, but it doesnt change the fact that it is not the realm of free speech that Im sure youll make it in the future.
You left out a couple of other issues.
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