Our 1st Quarter '07 FReepathon is now Underway!

Click here to donate ^ | January 1, 2007 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

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

[HOTTIEBOY]

:O

[HOTTIEBOY]

I always thought she was pretyy soft, go figger....

[onyx]

Good morning Fiddlstix and thanks for the eats!

[Txsleuth]

I have barely traveled in the USA, BSF....so, anytime I can vicariously travel with someone else, I LOVE it.

[eureka!]

$20 via snail mail today. Thanks for all you do and a blessed and Happy New Year to you and all....

[StarCMC]

She's [i]good[/i] tough, huckleberry! :-D

[StarCMC]

Well dang! LOL!! Should have been < and >. ARGH!!

[StarCMC]

Hey -- I think you could substitute so many words there -- delusional, threatening, angry, lying...so many adjectives, so little room in the tagline! :-D

[onyx]

Thank you, eureka!
Happy New Year!

[onyx]

Hiya Sir Hailstone!

[HOTTIEBOY]

I like what our other friend said:::

"Methinks they are like those kids in school who used to grab my books and run. I didn't chase them, and eventually they put my books down. They didn't want my books, they wanted to be chased."

[onyx]

   Q1 2007 Scoreboard -- ranked by total receipts   

Rank	Location	Receipts	Donors/Avg		Freepers/Avg		Monthlies
1	Texas	$1,245.00	14	$88.93		$	$936.00	64
2	California	860.00	17	50.59			1,328.56	95
3	New York	540.00	8	67.50			418.00	23
4	Pennsylvania	405.00	9	45.00			278.00	20
5	Florida	315.00	8	39.38			667.11	40
6	Virginia	290.00	7	41.43			593.00	28
7	Indiana	290.00	8	36.25			103.00	10
8	Minnesota	280.00	4	70.00			85.00	7
9	Arizona	255.00	5	51.00			140.00	13
10	Kansas	250.00	4	62.50			40.00	4
11	Washington	195.00	4	48.75			315.00	18
12	Colorado	190.00	5	38.00			190.00	13
13	Canada	180.00	5	36.00			5.00	1
14	Maryland	160.00	3	53.33			175.00	11
15	Alabama	155.00	6	25.83			280.00	14
16	Arkansas	150.00	3	50.00			55.00	3
17	New Jersey	150.00	4	37.50			220.00	11
18	Wisconsin	150.00	4	37.50			125.00	9
19	Montana	150.00	2	75.00			343.33	2
20	Sweden	150.00	1	150.00
21	Utah	140.00	4	35.00			92.00	5
22	Ohio	140.00	3	46.67			567.25	15
23	Illinois	133.00	3	44.33			268.50	15
24	Alaska	125.00	2	62.50			40.00	2
25	Missouri	110.00	4	27.50			175.00	12
26	Michigan	100.00	1	100.00			130.00	10
27	South Korea	100.00	1	100.00
28	Hawaii	100.00	2	50.00			50.00	4
29	Massachusetts	100.00	4	25.00			310.00	17
30	South Dakota	100.00	1	100.00			40.00	2
31	Georgia	70.00	2	35.00			210.00	14
32	New Hampshire	70.00	2	35.00			10.00	1
33	Nevada	60.00	2	30.00			80.00	4
34	South Carolina	60.00	2	30.00			115.00	9
35	Connecticut	50.00	1	50.00			20.00	2
36	New Mexico	50.00	1	50.00			40.00	2
37	Louisiana	50.00	1	50.00			75.00	7
38	North Dakota	50.00	1	50.00
39	Finland	50.00	1	50.00
40	Nebraska	50.00	1	50.00			42.50	3
41	Vermont	45.00	2	22.50			76.00	4
42	Oklahoma	35.00	2	17.50			91.00	5
43	North Carolina	35.00	2	17.50			315.00	20
44	Tennessee	30.00	2	15.00			108.00	9
45	Oregon	30.00	2	15.00			90.00	9
46	Idaho	30.00	1	30.00			85.00	4
47	Puerto Rico	25.00	1	25.00
48	Maine	20.00	1	20.00			10.00	1
49	Mississippi	20.00	1	20.00			145.00	7
50	Wyoming	20.00	1	20.00
51	Delaware	20.00	1	20.00
52	Kentucky	10.00	1	10.00			10.00	2
	Norway						10.00	1
	West Virginia						50.00	2
	United Kingdom						5.00	1
	Iowa						75.00	4
	Rhode Island						45.00	2
	Armed Forces - Europe						25.00	2
	China						10.00	1
	Croatia						5.00	1
Never Never Land		420.00	14	30.00			228.00	19
53 locations total		$8,808	191	$46.12		$0.00	$9,945.25	604

[Mo1]

Thank you eureka! for supporting FR !!

[StarCMC]

VERY good point! Our friend hit that nail right on the head I think!

[Sir Hailstone]

Hey there sunshine what's tricks?

Went to a chinese buffet for lunch and I don't know if they used a different wax or what on the floors but it was really slippery - like walking on ice.

This poor kid slipped and fell - didn't hurt herself or even cry or anything. I said to the person next to me in the buffet line "Quick! someone call a lawyer!!"

[Fierce Allegiance]

You're making me blush.

Don't stop! :D

[najida]

You ole suck up you!

[Sir Hailstone]

"Don't stop!"

That's what she said last night ... ooooo yhell-o!!!!

Did I say that out loud?

[Mo1]

Good Afternoon BUMP

[onyx]

"Quick! someone call a lawyer!!"

LOL!