Statement by the founder of Free Republic

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[Jim Robinson]

I posted the following statement to our front page in response to the criticism I'm receiving lately as to not being fair and balanced and perceived mistreatment of trolls and assorted malcontents. Got news for all, I'm NOT fair and balanced. I'm biased toward God, country, family, liberty and freedom and against liberalism, socialism, anarchism, wackoism, global balonyism and any other form of tyranny. Hope this helps.

Statement by the founder of Free Republic:

In our continuing fight for freedom, for America and our constitution and against totalitarianism, socialism, tyranny, terrorism, etc., Free Republic stands firmly on the side of right, i.e., the conservative side. Believing that the best defense is a strong offense, we (myself and those whom I'm trying to attract to FR) support the strategy of taking the fight to the enemy as opposed to allowing the enemy the luxury of conducting their attacks on us at home on their terms and on their schedule.

Therefore, we wholeheartedly support the Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive strikes on known terrorist states and organizations that are believed to present a clear threat to our freedom or national security. We support our military, our troops and our Commander-in-Chief and we oppose turning control of our government back over to the liberals and socialists who favor appeasement, weakness, and subserviency. We do not believe in surrendering to the terrorists as France, Germany, Russia and Spain have done and as Kerry, Kennedy, Clinton and the Democrats, et al, are proposing.

As a conservative site, Free Republic is pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-Constitution, pro-Bill of Rights, pro-gun, pro-limited government, pro-private property rights, pro-limited taxes, pro-capitalism, pro-national defense, pro-freedom, and-pro America. We oppose all forms of liberalism, socialism, fascism, pacifism, totalitarianism, anarchism, government enforced atheism, abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, racism, wacko environmentalism, judicial activism, etc. We also oppose the United Nations or any other world government body that may attempt to impose its will or rule over our sovereign nation and sovereign people. We believe in defending our borders, our constitution and our national sovereignty.

Free Republic is private property. It is not a government project, nor is it funded by government or taxpayer money. We are not a publicly owned entity nor are we an IRS tax-free non-profit organization. We pay all applicable taxes on our income. We are not connected to or funded by any political party, news agency, or any other entity. We sell no merchandise, product or service, and we offer no subscriptions or paid memberships. We accept no paid advertising or promotions. We are funded solely by donations (non tax deductible gifts) from our readers and participants.

We aggressively defend our God-given and first amendment guaranteed rights to free speech, free press, free religion, and freedom of association, as well as our constitutional right to control the use and content of our own personal private property. Despite the wailing of the liberal trolls and other doom & gloom naysayers, we feel no compelling need to allow them a platform to promote their repugnant and obnoxious propaganda from our forum. Free Republic is not a liberal debating society. We are conservative activists dedicated to defending our rights, defending our constitution, defending our republic and defending our traditional American way of life.

Our God-given liberty and freedoms are not negotiable.

May God bless and protect our men and women in uniform fighting for our freedom and may God continue to bless America.

Jim Robinson

[abigailsmybaby]

This is the comment I left at St Louis Today...

“Only a left wing nutcase would think that adherence to the Constitution, limited government, liberty, personal responsibility, personal property rights, national security and American sovereignty are “fringe thoughts”.

Please pack up your stuff and moveon to Venezuela, Cuba or some such hole where the mindset is more attuned to yours.”

Congrats Jim! Lord knows you deserve it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[mojitojoe]

Thank you for all that you do!

[abigailsmybaby]

Did you intend for your post to be addressed to Jim? :)

[NotSelfButCountry]

The world's not fair. Why should we be pleasant to those who would stab us in the back at a piece conference. I definitely support our troops and hope that they follow the advice that Patton gave to his troops in WW2.
“It's not your job to die for your country, it's to make the other bastard die for his”
Or in this case for his ridiculous suicide bomber ideology.

[Old Mountain man]

Jim, I will defend your right to have a private enterprise operation run as you see fit until the death.

[surfer]

Glad someone pinged this with a response.

A great time to re-affirm our stand with Jim and all the other Freepers!

We need this unity now more than ever and it now that we must take a stand and stand together we will to fight onslaught of tyranny already destroying our country.

If we don’t ALL make the stand now...there is a saying that fits perfectly about the tyranny we are facing from Obama, et al and that saying goes something like this...if you don’t think this is going to get any worse...well baby you haven’t seen anything yet!!!

Jim thanks for keeping up the good fight and God bless!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

BTTT

[Kansas58]

Jim,

I enjoy FR very much.

I apologize, up front, if I have been out of line at all, but I would appreciate it if you would review this FR poster who goes by “Reagan” something or other, and tell him to QUIT speaking on your behalf.

All I did was repeat the references others have made, to JFK's tax cutting, supply side speech, and this guy is trying to kick me off the forum!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2260609/posts?page=44 I have decided to ignore the guy in the future, and I have told him as much. Sincerely Paul Rosell Wichita KS

[Rocko]

My thanks for all you do.

[poor in pa.]

thank you for your efforts to try and undo the soon to be socialism that Hillary, Obama and the rest of the democrat liars out there....they run on a platform for the average American and then take money from big business and do nothing, well Mr. Obama has already paid back AIG and the auto workers who donated so heavily to his campaign. We do not need government officials to tell us what is morally correct, we need politicians who are morally correct and don’t feel they are above the law. At the rate the government is going now I will live to see the UNITED SOCIALIST STATES OF AMERICA!

[smokingfrog]

“I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials”
Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. President, 1917.

[I got the rope]

BUMP...It’s time to put this on the Frontpage again.

[Darksheare]

Perhaps you should refresh your memory of why FR is here and who owns it.

[dixjea]

Dear Mr Robinson,
I am really annoyed and offended with your latest “ad” on Free Republic about Romney being an evil butcher. That is so stupid. Why is such a thing coming out as a Free Republic official pronouncement? Glad you waited to put it up until after I gave in your last fundraising drive.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

I am really annoyed and offended with your latest “ad” on Free Republic about Romney being an evil butcher. That is so stupid. Why is such a thing coming out as a Free Republic official pronouncement?
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You have been here long enough to know that FR is the

PRIVATE PROPERTY of the OWNER!!!,,,DUH!!!

We are all his GUESTS here...

[dixjea]

Jim, Everytime I log onto FR you have diatribes against Romney up! What’s with this? It really is annoying. I feel like you are trying to propagandize me. Surely you have bigger fish to fry than this. Ever heard of the circular firing squad? The list becomes tighter and tighter of who can and cannot be RINO. Your seething hatred is unbecoming.

[Jim Robinson]

Christians, social conservatives, believers in Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, along with ethical and moral Americans of every political and religious stripe recognize abortion as baby killing. The abortionist's goal IS to kill the innocent and helpless young baby growing in the warmth, safety and security of its mothers loving womb, depriving him of his God-given Life and Liberty! Any way you look at it, that is antithetical to all religious faiths, to ethical and moral behavior, and to Liberty itself. It's a sin against God and man, it's evil incarnate, it's anti-American, and it's a shame and disgrace that our government not only allows, but unconstitutionally forces such barbaric butchery of holocaustal proportions on her previously free and otherwise moral and ethical society! The fact that Mitt Romney unabashedly and unapologetically pledged to preserve and protect such unholy barbaric butchery makes him forever disqualified from any consideration whatsoever for higher office.

Other than that, please take your complaints to our Complaint Department.

[snowsislander]

In our continuing fight for freedom, for America and our constitution and against totalitarianism, socialism, tyranny, terrorism, etc., Free Republic stands firmly on the side of right, i.e., the conservative side. Believing that the best defense is a strong offense, we (myself and those whom I'm trying to attract to FR) support the strategy of taking the fight to the enemy as opposed to allowing the enemy the luxury of conducting their attacks on us at home on their terms and on their schedule.

Therefore, we wholeheartedly support the Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive strikes on known terrorist states and organizations that are believed to present a clear threat to our freedom or national security. We support our military, our troops and our Commander-in-Chief and we oppose turning control of our government back over to the liberals and socialists who favor appeasement, weakness, and subserviency. We do not believe in surrendering to the terrorists as France, Germany, Russia and Spain have done and as Kerry, Kennedy, Clinton and the Democrats, et al, are proposing.

As a conservative site, Free Republic is pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-Constitution, pro-Bill of Rights, pro-gun, pro-limited government, pro-private property rights, pro-limited taxes, pro-capitalism, pro-national defense, pro-freedom, and-pro America. We oppose all forms of liberalism, socialism, fascism, pacifism, totalitarianism, anarchism, government enforced atheism, abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, racism, wacko environmentalism, judicial activism, etc. We also oppose the United Nations or any other world government body that may attempt to impose its will or rule over our sovereign nation and sovereign people. We believe in defending our borders, our constitution and our national sovereignty.

BTTT.

[ErnBatavia]

please take your complaints to our Complaint Department.

Love it!

[little jeremiah]

BTTT for noobs.