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.
Some great comments. Thanks.
But to this day "states rights" is considered racist by some. I am not making this up. (Though of course the pot crowd, "gay marriage," et al. refer to it. If I as a conservative said "states rights" likely some to this day would scream, Racist! which indeed happened on this very forum some months ago.)
That aside there are reasons we dwell on Mexicans coming here ILLEGALLY. Why? They are the largest numbers and their corrupt government is herding them here, "Mexican diaspora."
The Mexican government meddles in our internal affairs at all levels, private and public.
So does the Irish government meddle -- at least to the extent of discussing with Washington the treatment of its citizens who are here ILLEGALLY.
ILLEGAL aliens from Ireland have left the U.S. owing to NY state's crackdown on drivers licenses.
Good!
We've condemned all ILLEGAL aliens - I say they were invited here by our business' and government's wink, wink nudge, nudge attitude about enforcing our laws.
Regardless, Mexico is the worst offender. It ain't racism -- IMO it's an insult to Americans of Hispanic origin to suggest that we must kowtow to Mexico lest we don't get the Hispanic vote.
I didn't say you took checks directly from Carl Rove, or the RNC, Jim.
But I wonder about the FROBLs, and who is ultimately directing the funding to FR via cutouts.
Like the cutouts the RNC was caught directing payola to Armstrong Williams etc.
Seriously, if the RNC thought Williams was worth over $100,000, and went to the trouble of setting up dummy cutouts to get payola to him, do you honestly believe they would not set up shill freepers (FROBLS) to accomplish the same thing at Free Republic?
If Armstrong (who?) Williams was worth $100,000, I'm sure the RNC would consider FR (that proven giant killer) to be worth many times that, and well worth setting up shill FROBLs to make bent donations.
I'm dead serious. FR is worth 100 Armstrong Williams's to the RNC. The RNC has been caught red handed in a payola scandal, using dummy cutout firms.
Do you think they are "above" trying to subvert FR via donations?
I don't.
I think the poll question recently asked about this was misleading.
I support LEGAL immigration but not open borders.
LEGAL immigration includes a work permit for a limited time.
No option fit what I believe so the poll didn't make any sense.
Typical. You don't know anything about No_Doll_I, yet you immediately go for the racist charge and tell the poster that they're support of David Duke and Luis Farrakhan. You have no basis to your arguments and instead you are calling everyone a racist. Knock it off.
Bttt.
1)Posted by Dane to No_Doll_i 02/14/2005 1:47:17 PM EST · 3,010 of 3,034
Huh, maybe look in the mirror, and tear down your poster of david duke.
Thank God the Republican party was smart enough to not allow a racially divisive rhetorical equivalent of sharpton and jackson a place at their table.
2) Posted by Dane to Marine Inspector 02/14/2005 1:39:15 PM EST · 3,006 of 3,034
My opinion of your words is that those words would make david duke(the white louis farrakhan) proud.
3)Posted by Dane to Marine Inspector 02/14/2005 5:58:24 AM EST · 2,956 of 3,034
Most definately I will know it, as the froth from your louis farrakhan like rants spews out of my video monitor.
4)Posted by Dane to Marine Inspector 02/13/2005 8:28:39 PM EST · 2,894 of 3,034
Second of all no one is stopping you of following the same rhtorical path of lewis farrakhan and the nation of islam, just don't get all hot and bothered when someones points it out to you.
5)Posted by Dane to rottndog 02/13/2005 8:24:48 PM EST · 2,890 of 3,034
Check out the links in reply #2663. JMO, it seems your side are the one's who want to become the white equivalent of nation of islam.
6)Posted by Dane to hchutch; Marine Inspector 02/13/2005 7:51:12 PM EST · 2,877 of 3,034
Of course marine inspector says he's not a racist. Ronald Reagan, their supposed hero would be sickened by the rhetoric spewed by marine inspector and his cohorts. It's the same type of rhetoric of lewis farrakhan and the nation of islam, IMO.
7)Posted by Dane to inquest 02/13/2005 4:14:36 PM EST · 2,809 of 3,034
Yup, the (buchanan) "badge" you're wearing fits perfectly LOL! You haven't been here too long have you. I was here when the pitchforkers who, IMO hate Jews and Hispanic Catholics(funny since buchannan himself almost proclaims himself as an American Pope, he likes all all Catholics, except those without white skin, IMO)), tried to take over this forum.
8)Posted by Dane to Harmless Teddy Bear; Mr. Mojo 02/13/2005 3:54:30 PM EST · 2,797 of 3,034
IMO, with Sen. Martinez's saying three sentences in Spanish, Mr. Mojo beleives that Sen. Martinez is a bigger devil than Ted Kennedy.
9) Posted by Dane to drt1 02/13/2005 2:53:20 PM EST · 2,761 of 3,034
Oh sheesh, the "cyber-martyr" rhetoric in full bloom, how charles rangel.
10) Posted by Dane to Squantos 02/13/2005 2:38:37 PM EST · 2,747 of 3,034
Fishin? I ain't fishin, seems you are fishin for prospects for a so-called right wing equivalent of sharpton and mecha.
11) Posted by Dane to Squantos; wardaddy 02/13/2005 2:26:21 PM EST · 2,741 of 3,034
IMO, you all on FR carry the race card and wear it as a badge of honor, akin to sharpton, mecha, etc.etc.
12)Posted by Dane to Mr. Mojo 02/13/2005 2:11:45 PM EST · 2,730 of 3,034
Huh did you get that quote from above from 100 years ago when the "cultural interlopers" were the Whops, Micks, and Polocks.
13) Posted by Dane to Marine Inspector 02/13/2005 2:04:34 PM EST · 2,723 of 3,034
OH BTW, I guess you are just hunky dory with her help in pardoning the Puerto Rican FALN terrorists. I wouldn't doubt it.
14)Posted by Dane to Marine Inspector 02/13/2005 1:34:43 PM EST · 2,676 of 3,034
I'm not surprised you are for the current insane staus quo, or the equally insane neo-khruschev idea of a new berlin wall.
15)Posted by Dane to Reaganwuzthebest 02/12/2005 2:51:00 PM EST · 2,107 of 3,034
JMO, you have unmasked yourself as a Sierra Club member or sympathizer(i.e zero population growth, abortion, etc. etc), hiding behind and flaming the very small xenophobe and racist wing of the right.
16)Posted by Dane to Marine Inspector 02/12/2005 1:45:55 PM EST · 2,037 of 3,034
But whew watch out if a conservative Republican disagrees with the akin racism on Vdare. Kinda of akin to the verbal lashing an african-american who wanders off the NAACP plantation.
Thanks for the ping.
Let me be the first one to sign F16's petition.
Dammit, stop! Where the hell do you continue to get off to keep calling the border "FReep" called the "Minuteman Project" some sort of "neo-Nazi vigilantism"!? You've been told and shown otherwise yet you continue with your freakin' idiotic damned lies!! You have no credible proof that this event is "neo-Nazi vigilantism" yet you continue to post your crap slandering it with impunity.
Ooops, forgot to ping you....
b-u-m-p
"No racism" has been the rule on FR since day one. Our average donation is around $30. The donations come in from our particpants and readers. Donations over a couple hundred dollars are rare. A thousand dollar donation is even rarer yet. Over one half of our donations come in from about 700 regular monthly donors averaging less than $20 each. There's no payola here. The forum policies are my own.
He's dead, Jim...
Jeff is one of the most respected posters on this forum as well as a former FReeper of the Year (if I recall correctly).
Arnold supporting, gun-grabbing, welfare apologists should NOT be baiting a freeper of his caliber, nor should they be trying to kiss JimRob's ass by pinging him here.
Bttt! Glad you're back, Travis!
BUMP
BTW Your excellent summary could be replicated with equal effect on a number of Posters. IMHO Dane is among the worst but certainly not the least.
Dane was a SHE?
Well done.
LOL... As if we needed any more...
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