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Not so ‘Free Republic’: The Shot Heard Around the Net
The Conservative Voice ^ | Feb 11, 2005 | by William Gheen, President, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC

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.


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To: Happy2BMe

I'm still waiting for a copy of today's transcript.


3,501 posted on 02/17/2005 5:34:23 PM PST by ApesForEvolution (I just took a Muhammad and wiped my Jihadist with Mein Koran...come and get me nutbags.)
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To: Dane

"Abner! Come quick! Look at these Republicans jaywalking!
They are . . . ILLEGALS!"
3,502 posted on 02/17/2005 5:35:15 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Happy2BMe

Sean's apparently making some FRSBL-like noises all of a sudden...so I've heard.


3,503 posted on 02/17/2005 5:36:13 PM PST by ApesForEvolution (I just took a Muhammad and wiped my Jihadist with Mein Koran...come and get me nutbags.)
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To: ApesForEvolution
. . . FRSBL-like noises all of a sudden . . "

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Speaking of that, the OBL birdies are chirping too.

3,504 posted on 02/17/2005 5:39:02 PM PST by Happy2BMe (Long ago and far, far away there once was a shining land they called "America" . . .)
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To: Cultural Jihad

When we do get hit because we have given up our sovereign borders, poetic justice would have people that treat our Homeland Security so lightly, like you, absorb all the damage, loss and grief...you feelin' me?


3,505 posted on 02/17/2005 5:39:32 PM PST by ApesForEvolution (I just took a Muhammad and wiped my Jihadist with Mein Koran...come and get me nutbags.)
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To: ApesForEvolution
Maybe you would enjoy that, but you would have to ask someone else to help you.
3,506 posted on 02/17/2005 5:42:18 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Cultural Jihad

You felt it...


3,507 posted on 02/17/2005 5:43:28 PM PST by ApesForEvolution (I just took a Muhammad and wiped my Jihadist with Mein Koran...come and get me nutbags.)
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To: ApesForEvolution

I can feel the luv already seepin' / creepin' back into the thread...


3,508 posted on 02/17/2005 6:03:38 PM PST by Dat Mon (will work for clever tagline)
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To: Dane; ApesForEvolution
"Who exactly is being the "nazi" here"

Put a sock in it...

3,509 posted on 02/17/2005 6:21:34 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Cultural Jihad

LOL Just ignore the points you've been given that show what a hypocritical judgment that is, and keep on making it anyway.



Whatever. To me, she looks more like one of those who would call for "Abner" if she smelled her neighbor smoking pot. ; )


3,510 posted on 02/17/2005 6:56:34 PM PST by Trinity_Tx (Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believin as we already do)
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To: Dane; Travis McGee; F16Fighter; Bikers4Bush; MileHi; Spiff; drt1; Godebert; StoneColdGOP
I think that there is a misunderstanding as to what a reference to David Duke means. Travis thinks you're calling someone a Nazi racist because he associates David Duke with the Nazis.

On the other hand, those of us who remember David Duke's Louisiana campaign think of him as a KKK leader who ran a campaign on an anti-immigrant theme, much like Pat Buchanan's campaign. Although at the time David Duke's target was Vietnamese immigrants who were having trouble with American shrimpers on the Gulf Coast. He and Louis Beam made several trips to Houston trying to raise money from the anti-immigrant crowd.

Maybe David Duke is a Nazi, I don't know, the only things I have heard him say are some of the same accusations about Hispanic immigrants on FR, such as "they are ruining our neighborhoods", "destroying our culture", lowering our educational standards","threatening our sovereignty", etc...

Those statements don't make him a Nazi though. Perhaps you should specify which David Duke you are referencing, the Nazi one or the anti-immigrant one.

3,511 posted on 02/17/2005 7:20:29 PM PST by bayourod ("Give us a chance and we'll give you a choice." RNC)
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To: bayourod

Unless we're going to be pedantic, does it really make a difference?

I don't think anyone missed the point or would be any less justifiably outraged at being called a Klansman.


3,512 posted on 02/17/2005 7:53:50 PM PST by Trinity_Tx (Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believin as we already do)
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To: StoneColdGOP; drt1

Hey Stone,

Note that Dane said "In my opinion".

I think drtl was posting a reply to her, not you with the "IMO you've got LOUSY opinions."

C'mon, can't we all get along? ;^)

Regards


3,513 posted on 02/17/2005 8:59:12 PM PST by FBD ("A nation without borders is not a nation." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: FBD; StoneColdGOP

FBD - You are right. I should have made my post a little clearer so I didn't set off the hair triggers that are set. LOL


3,514 posted on 02/17/2005 9:02:41 PM PST by drt1
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To: Dane
I gave my opinion and you all in what I consider(again my opinion) a mob mentality wanted no less than my head for daring to give my opinion.

LOL. That's the MO of the Dane posse.

3,515 posted on 02/17/2005 9:42:06 PM PST by Marine Inspector (Customs & Border Protection Officer)
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To: Dane

Amen!


3,516 posted on 02/18/2005 4:58:12 AM PST by Howlin (Free the Eason Jordan Tape!!!)
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To: Dane

Until someone told me I had no idea you were a woman.

So there.


3,517 posted on 02/18/2005 6:01:58 AM PST by Bikers4Bush (Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for true conservatives!)
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To: bayourod

Whether nazi or kkk reference, neither is appropriate for debate.

Unless of course you're conceeding that you have no decent arguement in which case by all means use vieled insults to call people nazi's or kkk members.


3,518 posted on 02/18/2005 6:04:12 AM PST by Bikers4Bush (Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for true conservatives!)
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To: Dane; hchutch
When we do get hit because we have given up our sovereign borders, poetic justice would have people that treat our Homeland Security so lightly, like you, absorb all the damage, loss and grief...you feelin' me?

I find it fascinating that there are two groups who masturbate like wild monkeys over the prospect of another attack on the United States, and eagerly pray for such attacks to take place.

The first group is made up of Islamist extremists.

The second group is made up of a few FReepers.

3,519 posted on 02/18/2005 6:22:09 AM PST by Poohbah (God must love fools. He makes so many of them...)
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To: Darkwolf377
Websites like this are privately owned. It's like being in someone's house. They get to make the rules. Simple as that.

Well, it's an LLC that does take voluntary fees (for profits can't take "donations" per-se) from people to operate, so it's not *quite* as simple as that.

For instance, if the guests in your house paid your mortgage every month, even though they weren't forced to, they might be entitled to expect a certain amount of treatment in return. If people pay to be able to post, getting yanked, or the threat of being yanked for their views - would indeed be a concern.

I think the members of FR are by and large supporting it's existence ... so while in theory you are correct, there is some area of grey here.

3,520 posted on 02/18/2005 6:29:55 AM PST by Stu Cohen (Press '1' for English)
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