[jwalsh07]

TAKE YOUR PICK

[sauropod]

Hmmm...

[Rainmist]

My mom grew up in Chanhassen MN., and she remembered as a child being afraid of going over this one wooden bridge because she was certain that trolls lived underneath it ! LOL !!

[Sofa King]

A troll is something we Zot. Like this:
Zot, the Cat!

(With all of the trolls around, I decided to make my own zot image. Comments?)

[mhking]

Paging Thor....

[BJungNan]

[potlatch]

This one'll getcha if you don't watch out!!

[soozla]

[Rebelbase]

Moby is your leader.

[jwalsh07]

This guy ain't no troll. Welcome to free republic omnix where a thick skin and sense of humor are sometimes a prerequisite.

From his home page:

I am 39 years old and live in Laplace, Louisiana. I am married to a beautiful woman named Norma. I have one son, named Chris, who is fourteen years old.

I hold two college degrees. I have an associate degree in Business Administration from Delgado College of New Orleans and I also have a bachelors degree in Accounting from the University of New Orleans.

I am the First Sergeant of the 159th Security Forces Squadron of the Louisiana Air National Guard. I have 18 years of total military service. I work for a company called DXP doing application engineering for the pump industry. I have been with them for 8 years. DXP is located in Harahan, Louisiana, which is a suburb of New Orleans.

Thanks for serving omnix.

[woofie]

Dear fellow freepers: The man is not a Troll, give him a break ....

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

[redhead]

Don't forget: "Troll" has two meanings. One, of course, is the one you described. The other is a verb. To "troll," is to drag baited hooks through the water in the hopes of catching as may fish as possible. Could this be the meaning you seek? "The troll trolled through the FR thread..."

[harpo11]

Her Masteress of the Troll Patrol

[Dan from Michigan]

Trolling is a fishing term, and that's what "internet trolls" are a reference to.

Fisherman when trolling are traveling on a boat with a line in the water with bait looking for big fish(oftentimes Walleye)

Leftist trolls here are trolling to cause mischief. They have their bait and look for others to jump on it and to cause a scene. Now as to the rest of your posts.

These people, whom call themselves the Troll Patrol, are trying to intimidate Americans who are wanting to express their thoughts and concerns to keep their thoughts to themsleves.

WTF? Look, FR is private property. I can go get a tripod site or a geocities site up with my political speech if I want and no damn thing can stop me. Period.

This is an attempt to enforce censorship or pressure someone not to express themselves.

You or I both have no RIGHT to post here. I don't own this site. I am a guest here, must like a customer. If they don't want me here, I go elsewhere, much like as I take my business elsewhere. It's not hard.

I would like to say to the Troll Patrol that this in not the old USSR or Nazi Germany in the 40's. This is the United States of America and we do have freedom of speech in this country.

That's a stupid ass analogy. Read the first amendment. CONGRESS shall make no law. This isn't a government run board. This isn't government property. This is PRIVATE property. This country's founding is based on the rights of life, liberty, and PROPERTY(read John Locke).

you want to find trolls, I suggest that you visit Sherwood Forrest there are probaly a few lurking around.

And I see your boat trolling here.

[Congressman Billybob]

Okay, in case you're still here, let's go over the basics. When you have opinions to offer, you have two choices. Go before an audience whene your ideas might be welcome, and expect a warm welcome. Or, go before an audience where your ideas might be unwelcome, and expect to defend with logic and facts and patience.

Either you are incredibly dumb, in not knowing what your audience was, or you are simply incapable of using logic and facts. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, I will assume the latter.

Either way you are wasting your time, which may be of no value, and our time, which definitely has value. So, go away, grow up, and check back in once you've accomplished that task, if you can.

Congressman Billybob

Click here, then click the blue CFR button, to join the anti-CFR effort (or visit the "Hugh & Series, Critical & Pulled by JimRob" thread). Don't delay. Do it now.

[Godfollow]

Freedom of Speech. Now there's a novel idea.

The freedom to which you refer has to do with political realities and is intended to govern a civil society... i.e. the president of the United States cannot throw you in jail for disagreeing with or disparaging him. In contrast, compare this with the reign of Saddam Husein of Iraq, or Kim Ill of North Korea, the Islamofasciests of the Arab nations and countless other despots throughout history.

Ours is a unique place and period in time, be thankful for what you have... but guess what, if your speech as an individual to another individual or group is offensive to them, they don't have to give you a platform. FR is a platform provided by and governed by mostly like minded folks. If your not a like minded folk, you may not feel too welcome.

If you want to get on a soap box in the town square and convince the gentle folk to your persuasion, you had better peak a language they will honor or you might get a tomato upside the head.

Mostly, people of all persuasions are willing to hear the other side out if there is respect, intellectual honesty, and an earnest attempt to communicate. The problem these days is that there is a lot of mud being slung around, and its hard to respect someone that has just slimed you.

Trolls, I believe, are those who either jump in to slime the place up or plant stories, mostly phony, to gum up a political position or cause anxiety regarding a political position, i.e. spreading rumors and lies.

In short, Freedom of Speech is freedom from tyranny, not freedom to be heard... thank God!!!

[teeman8r]

trolls i understands... what about zot?

teeman
t doesn't stand for troll
honestly, it doesn't
really
it stands for tr-tr-tr-tr-uman, that's it,
truman... yyeah that's the ticket.

[Galactic Overlord-In-Chief]

Weasel Alert!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

This account has been banned or suspended.

... which settles the whole (purportedly) knotty issue of whether or not the poster in question actually was "trolling" or not fairly definitively, I'd say... :)