ZOT! Free Republic Sucks?

[fisherspats]

Are People banned from this site? Are opposing views not welcomed? Why, YES.....Over the past 5-6 years I have had to change my log-in several times..Due to a "Banning". I have received over 132 e-mails from "Freepers" that were also banned. I enjoy reading most of the postings...I start my morning on this site. But I have learned not to reply or post any opposing views...until now. I'm sure this posting will vanish and once again I will be "banned". Until another screen name my friends.

[Darth Reagan]

Good God you ought to be ashamed. I'd like to see my stats too. . ..

[Maelstrom]

Of course you do...you're always wrong...and can't see your way to a proper, correct, and consistent answer.

You will always get more replies for that reason alone.

[Natural Law]

Yes, FR does suck, but not as bas an anything else out there.

[Howlin]

So basically you're here because you can't find anywhere else to go?

[Natural Law]

It would appear that way, but like so much in life you make the best of what you are dealt. Until something better comes along I'm here. Anyone who thinks this is bad is opposed to competition. I'm sure JimRob is fine with that.

[Howlin]

Get over yourself.

[Natural Law]

Deal with it.

[expatguy]

"Your story has become tiresome."

[fatima]

Is this Friday night I am all mixed up?

[WhiskeyPapa]

Of course you do...you're always wrong...and can't see your way to a proper, correct, and consistent answer.

Can you show some inconsistencies in my position?

Walt

[Maelstrom]

Many of us have tried.

What's the use?

You are *not* a conservative.
You do *not* believe the US was created a limited government.
You do *not* believe individuals have rights the government cannot seize or legislate into virtual non-existance.

These are all inconsistent with history, the writings of our government's founding, and indeed inconsistent with known facts of the War of Northern Aggression.

IF more people believe as you do than not...that war must be re-fought. It will be...IF more people believe as you do than not...It will be INEVITABLE.

[WhiskeyPapa]

You are *not* a conservative.

I endorse a number of "conservative" issues. In fact, I am right about everything.

Walt

[Maelstrom]

Sure you do...and you very convincingly portray them in all your posts.

You're a statist...not a conservative.

A statist prefers to centralize powers in the nation-state, removing them from the people.

[WhiskeyPapa]

You're a statist...not a conservative.

A statist prefers to centralize powers in the nation-state, removing them from the people.

That is ridiculous.

Walt

[Godebert]

"Yeah but 9975 of those messages were refighting the Civil War."

And 99% of those 9975 messages were ten paragraph cut & paste abolitionist diatribes.

[Maelstrom]

What are you allowed to do?
What were states allowed to do prior to Lincoln's War?

Your past posts have answered those questions sufficiently well that a judgement can indeed be made.

That judgement isn't ridiculous, your statist tendencies are part and parcel of every post I've seen from you that had anything imitating substance.

=Maelstrom=

[WhiskeyPapa]

...your statist tendencies...

Are these statist?

"Here we see the people acting as the sovereigns of the whole country; and in the language of sovereignty, establishing a Constitution by which it was their will, that the state governments should be bound, and to which the State Constitutions should be made to conform. Every State Constitution is a compact made by and between the citizens of a state to govern themeselves in a certain manner; and the Constitution of the United States is likewise a compact made by the people of the United States to govern themselves as to general objects, in a certain manner.

By this great compact however, many prerogatives were transferred to the national Government, such as those of making war and peace, contracting alliances, coining money, etc."

--Chief Justice John Jay, Chisholm v. Georgia 1793

"In the case now to be determined, the defendant, a sovereign state, denies the obligation of a law enacted by the legislature of the Union...In discussing this question, the counsel for the state of Maryland deemed it of some importance, in the construction of the Constitution, to consider that instrument as not emanating from the people, but as the act of sovereign and independent states. It would be difficult to maintain this position....

--John Marshall, majority opinon McCullough v. Maryland 1819

"That the United States form, for many, and for most important purposes, a single nation, has not yet been denied. In war, we are one people. In making peace, we are one people. In all commercial regulations, we are one and the same people. In many other respects, the American people are one; and the government which is alone capable of controlling and managing their interests in all these respects, is the government of the Union. It is their government and in that character, they have no other. America has chosen to be, in many respects, and in many purposes, a nation; and for all these purposes, her government is complete; to all these objects it is competent. The people have declared that in the exercise of all powers given for these objects, it is supreme. It can, then, in effecting these objects, legitimately control all individuals or governments within the American territory.

The constitution and laws of a state, so far as they are repugnant to the constitution and laws of of the United States are absolutely void. These states are constituent parts of the United States; they are members of one great empiure--for some purposes sovereign, for some purposes subordinate."

--Chief Justice John Marshall, writing the majority opinion, Cohens v. Virginia 1821

"The constitution of the United States was ordained and established, not by the states in their sovereign capacities, but emphatically, as the preamble of the constitution declares, by "the people of the United States."

-Justice Story, Martin v, Hunter's Lessee, 1816Walt

[Steve Eisenberg]

Are these statist?

Great post.

[Ben Bolt]

Oh man ... lol !

[Ben Bolt]

Come .