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Our 1st Quarter '07 FReepathon is now Underway!
Click here to donate ^ | January 1, 2007 | Jim Robinson

Posted on 01/01/2007 4:00:40 PM PST by Jim Robinson

Edited on 01/01/2007 4:19:48 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

Happy New Year Everyone!

Are you ready for a FReepathon?

Well, we're entering a new year and a period of new challenges. Pelosi & Co have some big plans for us. Unfortunately, their plans are not necessarily conducive to continued liberty.

As a matter of fact, their immediate desire is to further clampdown on our rights to free speech and freedom of assembly. If you loved McCaine/Feingold, you're really going to love Pelosi. It's aimed directly at grassroots organizations and could all but neuter political forums like FR.

Under Pelosi, any grassroots organization that reaches 500 people or more and asks them to communicate with their representatives regarding political issues would be required to register with the government as lobbyists and report quarterly on finances and expenditures and report separately on each individual issue they're advocating.

Huh? What happened to the first Amendment? Between McCain/Feingold and Pelosi, it's gone. Free speech and freedom of assembly would be history. Regulated to death. Forums and grassroots organizations like FR would be completely under the government thumb.

But it's not just the feds. The states are clamping down too. We're currently locking horns with the Commonwealth of Virginia. Virginia, the home of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, James Madison and the cradle of American Liberty itself now has a law they're trying to apply to Free Republic. Their state law requires charities that raise more then $5,000 per year in Virginia to register and report audited financials to the state. And even though we're a California company and clearly not a charity (we raise money to fund our operations, not for charitable purposes), they want to cross state lines and regulate our activities.

I tell you, between federal and state governments clamping down on our rights and the mainstream media corporations pressing the copyright issues, we're quickly losing our rights to organize and communicate on the Internet. The freewheeling wide open days of the Internet frontier are just about to end for the grassroots citizen.

And what's really ironic about all this is that just as the terrorists and enemies of freedom abroad are ramping up their Internet activities aimed at destroying our free society, we are being squeezed off the Net by the domestic enemy at home.

Oh, well, enough of my ranting. It's a new year and we have plenty to be thankful for. Thank God for each new day of good health and freedom. Thank God for our courageous military and may He watch over and protect our men and women in uniform wherever they may be serving and may they all return safely home soon.

Here's wishing you all a Blessed and Happy New Year!

God Bless America and God Bless us all.

God willing and through His good graces, we shall prevail!




Special note to Virginia residents:

We still do not have a resolution for the donations issue with the Commonwealth of Virginia, so please hold your donations until we get it resolved. As it is, any donations received from Virginia have to be returned or turned over to our lawyer to hold in his trust account until we get the matter settled.

Thank you all very much!

Regards,

Jim Robinson


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To: Mo1; Just A Nobody; smoothsailing; StarCMC; Fedora; freema; upchuck; AmeriBrit; jazusamo; ...
WE FREEP BECAUSE HE'S THERE

This is a one-time-only ping to the Freepathon for folks on the Murtha Watch Ping List.
If you're not already a donor to good old Free Republic, please consider it! You'll feel great for doing so.

Here's the latest: "Dirty" Murtha slithered to the Huffnpuff Post swamp today with an entry entitled: Extensive Hearings on Iraq

Rep. John Murtha

I will be recommending to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense that we begin extensive hearings starting on January 17, 2007 that will address accountability, military readiness, intelligence oversight and the activities of private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.

We will be demanding substantive answers to questions that have gone unanswered for far too long.

The war in Iraq and its effect on our military and our nation's future remains the most crucial issue facing the new Congress. I will be will be recommending an aggressive pursuit of action that will allow us to reduce our military presence in Iraq at the soonest practicable date.

1,341 posted on 01/04/2007 5:50:48 AM PST by RedRover (They are not killers. Defend our Marines.)
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To: deport

bttt


1,342 posted on 01/04/2007 7:23:57 AM PST by deport
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To: All
Good Morning Everybody.
You Know The Drill
Click the Pics
J

Click here to Contribute to FR: Do It Now! ;-) Click Here for Music Click Here to Select More Music

Coffee & Donuts J
1,343 posted on 01/04/2007 7:34:09 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Lady Jag
ear warmers????

free dixie,sw

1,344 posted on 01/04/2007 7:46:51 AM PST by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: .30Carbine

Happy new morning to you!


1,345 posted on 01/04/2007 8:31:19 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: stand watie
Hey, Dad! My earm warmers are too big!!


1,346 posted on 01/04/2007 9:07:15 AM PST by Lady Jag (I dreamed I surfed all day in my monthly donor wonder bra [https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate])
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To: Lady Jag

BUMP TO THE TOP!


1,347 posted on 01/04/2007 9:20:28 AM PST by Mo1 (YEA, What Onyx said in her tagline !!)
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To: Jim Robinson

"I, Nancy Pelosi, do solemnly swear to tax the sh** out of every American to the greatest depths of their wallets, and to spend it on a diversity of perverse issues."


1,348 posted on 01/04/2007 10:05:53 AM PST by Grampa Dave (If you are reading this and don't donate to Free Republic, you are probably a liberal or CINO.)
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To: Mo1

I just found out my stepmom was doing the coolest thing. She makes quilt tops as her favorite hobby. Today, she told me "I send them to Brooke Army Medical Center for burn patients in hospital family members. They are our military burn patients from Iraq, Afghanistan, where ever actually."

I gave her a big online hug, and then had to come over here and BUMP the thread!

She is so cool.

FR is so cool.

Support the troops!

Support FR.

Donate now!

Become a monthly donor!



1,349 posted on 01/04/2007 10:08:59 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Well said, BTTT KAC!


1,350 posted on 01/04/2007 10:16:43 AM PST by jazusamo (http://warchronicle.com/TheyAreNotKillers/DefendOurMarines.htm)
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To: Jim Robinson
I'm in Jim!

Now, to get my IL cohorts to cough up some bucks to get us higher up on that list :-)


1,351 posted on 01/04/2007 10:23:57 AM PST by Condor51 (Mayor Daley (D-Chi) For POTUS. Really, why not? He's more conservative than Rudy! /s)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
She is so cool.

She is a Great American!!

That is so sweet of her to do that for our Military

1,352 posted on 01/04/2007 10:25:25 AM PST by Mo1 (YEA, What Onyx said in her tag line !!)
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To: .30Carbine
Thank you .30Carbine for all your support!!
1,353 posted on 01/04/2007 10:28:13 AM PST by Mo1 (YEA, What Onyx said in her tag line !!)
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To: Condor51
Thank you Condor51 for keeping FR going strong!!
1,354 posted on 01/04/2007 10:29:42 AM PST by Mo1 (YEA, What Onyx said in her tag line !!)
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To: Mo1; All

Morning?....Mo and everyone!


1,355 posted on 01/04/2007 10:33:08 AM PST by onyx (DONATE NOW! -- It takes DONATIONS to keep FR running!!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Hey you! Happy New Year!


1,356 posted on 01/04/2007 10:34:49 AM PST by onyx (DONATE NOW! -- It takes DONATIONS to keep FR running!!)
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To: .30Carbine


Good morning, er, Good afternoon!


1,357 posted on 01/04/2007 10:36:08 AM PST by onyx (DONATE NOW! -- It takes DONATIONS to keep FR running!!)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Hiya KAC!

Ditto!


1,358 posted on 01/04/2007 10:37:06 AM PST by onyx (DONATE NOW! -- It takes DONATIONS to keep FR running!!)
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To: jazusamo


Hi JAZUSAMO!


1,359 posted on 01/04/2007 10:37:56 AM PST by onyx (DONATE NOW! -- It takes DONATIONS to keep FR running!!)
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To: onyx
Nancy Piglosi wishes every Freeper, Happy New Tax Year!

"I, Nancy Pelosi, do solemnly swear to tax the sh** out of every American to the greatest depths of their wallets, and to spend it on a diversity of perverse issues."


1,360 posted on 01/04/2007 10:38:17 AM PST by Grampa Dave (If you are reading this and don't donate to Free Republic, you are probably a liberal or CINO.)
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