Posted on 02/11/2005 10:55:36 AM PST by Jim Robinson
The shot heard around the Internet has been fired on FreeRepublic.com The owner Jim Robinson and his moderators have launched a sniper style purge against members that disagree with the President’s ‘guest worker’ amnesty or support more control of illegal immigration. Free Republic is an amazing tool for those looking for a good debate and news from around the country.
The problem for the administration of the site is that their creation is allowing the participants to learn that the Bush immigration record and plans are shockingly out of line with the views of most conservatives. The management’s answer to this conflict between the majority of conservatives and the influence of the White House on their Web site has become electronic executions and censorship.
Members and readers of Free Republic would be surprised to know that many members of their community have fallen silent on the discussions about illegal immigration lately because free speech is an illusion on FR.com. They are silent because they have been banned from the Web site without warning, cause, or explanation in most cases. For weeks the moderators have been suspending and banning new members that chimed in quickly on the immigration debates.
Now this trend has broadened as the first groups of long-term users were suspended or banned this past week. Although Robinson and his staff removed many members of the Free Republic community in the first few days of the purge, those that religiously support President Bush’s immigration plan, open borders and approve of public benefits for illegal aliens remain on the forum. Those that were banned were the members that wanted more done to control illegal immigration and a strict observance to the President’s Oath of Office.
Thank you, Jim Robinson. You do see clearly.
You've got my vote. Ever get to Houston?
Jim Robinson is really Carl Rove? LOL!
Tinfoil hat time!
There are so many ways to rip that article. I'll take the easy route and call it little more than a personal hit piece by a disgruntled ex-FReeper.
I actually agree with the president on this, so I don't have a dog in this fight.
The only illegal that I pay attention to
is the illegal member of the US Senate.
And I will do everything I can LEGALLY do to get rid of him.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.amendmentxiv.html
Thanks for posting...
Bravo!
(Awaiting handcuffs from Officer Robinson)
Uh, I don't particularly miss anybody here. Wonder who it was who got banned that I don't miss?
You got a decimal point way out of whack there somewhere. It may be 10,000 a day all along the border...I would buy that though I don't know the precises figures. But one million?
Do the math. In 3months that would be 90 million...in a year, we'd have 365 million more people here...far more than doubling our population. Does that reasonably seem like what's happening to you? Whoever told you that is terribly mistaken or just ignorant.
...and this is from someone (myself) who opposes much of Bush's substance and tone on immigration. It's too political, sounds too much like amnesty of some sort and will atrract more illegals hoping for the same at some later date. Just my opnion.
Well....for one thing, we're not all male ;- )
The vast majority of Americans are opposed to illegal immigration.
Just because the open-borders shills and trolls are so aggressive, don't let them mislead you into thinking that they have the majority opinion on this forum.
Well, that's how NPR is run, after all.
What a shocker .. NOT!
I am behind you 100 percent. Most of us do not support open borders or illegal immigrants. The issue at hand is how we tactfully voice our views of such on Free Republic.
Very well said.
I haven't accepted the middle-aged part yet
I'm still in denial ;0)
Uh Mr. Gheen(the writer of the article), I approve of President Bush's plan to bring sanity to an immigration system that has been out of whack for 40 years and Mr. Gheen, and sorry to put a damper on your typical fringe right cry jag, but I don't support open borders or public benefits for illegal aliens, either.
Unlike him my posts are popular and thought provoking and of the highest quality and scholarship.
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