Need Intelligent Freeper Input: Guidelines For Our Prominent Freepers

Source: All of us | 02/11/2005 | By Laz

[Lazamataz]

Recently, two Freepers who have some measure of prominance outside the forum have been damaged by liberals and/or Democrats. Jeff Gannon has resigned as a White House reporter, and the individual who goes by the name NCPAC has left his position in Maryland.

J. Gannon wasn't necessarily damaged by anything he posted here, but NCPAC was damaged by the work of a Democrat mole or a Washington Post reporter who revealed his freepmails.

It should be possible to post on this forum with anonymity and to be able to really discuss what's on your mind without worrying about Democrats trying to ruin your professional life, so, in order to help prominent Republicans who may wish to be an active member of Free Republic, I'm formulating some suggestions that I would like to have new users see.

This is what I have so far, as far as guidelines to help our prominent freepers avoid damage in the future:

If You Are A High-Profile Individual In “Real Life”….

If your daily job is such that you are a high-profile individual – as example, an official in a Republican campaign, or a state official in a Republican administration, or a rightward-leaning reporter – please read this article and take these suggestions.

1. Please don’t reveal your identity. Please don’t drop hints as to who you are. Please don’t succumb to the temptation to show off a little and thusly compromise your anonymity.
   
   
2. Know that there are Democrat operatives (and now, it appears, Legacy Media reporters) who pretend to be loyal conservatives. They will attempt to get you to reveal damaging information about your candidate, your administration, or your media enterprise.
   
   
3. This is for ALL Freepers: Never reveal any personal contact information. Please don’t post (or share in Freepmail) any email accounts, private phone numbers, addresses, or places of employment – unless you really know and trust the person to whom you are revealing these things.
   
   
4. Know that Freepmail can be, and sometimes is, exposed publicly. Please, never say anything in Freepmail that you would not want posted on the public forum. Please, people, add whatever you think might be helpful, and I will post the result as a new article.

[William Terrell]

Since Freepmail is the only way to communicate among FR users other than posting on a thread, one can't request a method of communication with anyone else outside FR without revealing an email address, mailing address, phone number or other contact info.

So, to be secure, one can only communicate with others on FR and not outside FR.

[F.J. Mitchell]

We've all known your true identy from your first post. You are a county mountie from

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county, Montana.

[Howlin]

This is a very important post; for every single one of us.

And this is not a joke and it is not wild speculation and it is not overreacting.

In the last months, due to things that have finally been noticed about FR AND due to new tactics being used by "the dark side," we have basically placed ourselves in the game; with each post, we have become, for all intents and purposes, "players."

Watch what you say out loud; I believe this is a fight to the death for this country; and we all know the depths they are willing to go to.

Vigilance.

(Please use your ping lists, if you have them; everybody on this forum needs to be alerted to this.)

Thanks, Laz; once again, you've narrowed down the pertinent facts for us.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Think of all freepmail and posts having the header:

Dear Lazamataz and Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury,...

[G.Mason]

From http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~odonnell/Citizen/I_am_Spartacus/

“I propose a campaign, called ``I am Spartacus,'' to share with creators of ideas the burden of censorship and suppression.

This campaign calls for some courage from participants, but the worst consequences will fall somewhat short of extermination by the Romans.

The basic idea is to create a huge number of mirrors of information that is the target of censorship or suppression, with campaigners publicly acknowledging responsibility for these mirrors.”

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I am NCPAC.

[RushCrush]

I'm suspicious of Laz. I think this is a trap.

;)

[Corin Stormhands]

George Allen ping for news we can all use.

Let's be careful out there. We face the forces of evil.

[DixieOklahoma]

Well, At one point we reported a user and they were not deleted.. I guess IM(H)O the only way to get rid of trolls is to delete those 'moderate' rino's on this site also...

The dems can't help but post some sort of half-hearted moderate thought on these discussion forums. Trust me, I was a troll at DU for a while, and I couldn't stop myself from arguing with them while still trying to cover up my opinion as 'moderate'. Needless to say my act there was deleted.

If we get rid of all moderate voices the trolls would evaporate. This site should be strictly conservative..let other sites be moderate to conservative with numerous trolls running around. This one should not be. But that is just MHO

[Lazamataz]

Outstanding. I would amend your comment to be this:

5. If you post from a government or office computer, you bear special responsibilities and incur new vulnerabilities. Especially from a government computer, doing political things or voicing political thoughts can be problematic. If possible, take technological measures to avoid problems (STUNNEL and anonymizers) and in any event, be particularly careful.

Your suggestion has been added to the list.

[ArrogantBustard]

Still true, twelve years later.

[NonValueAdded]

BTTT

How about to aid in getting the message across, we have a weekly "guess the FReeper" contest based on the mining of a high profile freeper's posting history?

[tiamat]

Darks:

Under these conditions you are ENCOURAGED to ping as often as neccessary.

Thanks, FRiend!

Laz:

Thank you, too!

Important stuff.

The Bad Guys are amongst us and they want to bring us down.

[OXENinFLA]

PING...

[Howlin]

We face the forces of evil.

I'm happy with the company I'm in. (Well, most of it!)

[FreedomHasACost]

So, whats my name??? :)
Really ya think thats a problem?

[EdReform]

Great advice, Laz!

[DixieOklahoma]

LOLOLOLOL Thats freaking funny.

[JustRight]

Keep in mind that an accretion of seemingly insignificant information can paint a detailed picture. If you review NCPAC's posting history, you can gather a great deal of information that points to his identity.

1. His handle points to a connection to NCPAC
2. Posts about Erlich and NCPAC's presence at press conferences involving Erlich
3. Mentioning being involved in many campaigns.
4. Posted that he wasn't born until Namath's career ended points to him being in his 20s or 30s
5. "I've known Nitkin peripherally for a few years, and a colleague of mine and I ran into him a few weeks back at MD's Statehouse on the day Governor Ehrlich announced his veto of the Dem legislature's tax increase disguised as a Medical-Malpractice Bill. "
6. "I've known/worked in various capacities for and with the Governor since 1986"
7. Posts many times demonstrating a deep knowledge of pop music.

If you were at all familiar with Maryland politics, it wouldn't have been too hard to figure out who he is.

[AdSimp]

Proposed rule 5: Do not give out public invitations to meet other FReepers unless you are physically prepared to deal with disruptors.

[Right_in_Virginia]

BTTT