The long winter is finally over, spring is here (or here in Maine, threatening to start...) and the month of April closes.
Most all of you have now visited the huge thread by Jim Robinson, which has become known as the spring cleaning thread or bug zapper thread. I pinged it a couple times before here. This thread is already just under 16,000 posts and has already had 350,847 views. Although the topic may be disturbing for some, it has a direct and positive effect on us, what has happened in the past to us, and the future. It sets the way for a pure and decent atmosphere for us all, in union with the principles of life and Terri's Legacy we support.
Many have departed FReepdom directly resulting from this thread, some known widely as ok folks because of their outward appearance, some because of their true hostility to values we hold close. Perhaps there was even collateral loss, although I have witnessed none. We have seen, and have defended against ugly attacks in months past, sometimes wondering why others did not see the same meanness of those posters. Many unmasked only to us, some succeeded in harming our threads.
We can remember the times they tag teamed us and surrounded us with attack portraying us as the bad guys and painting upon us the very traits they, themselves exhibited. For these types the thread has been a rout. They showed their true colors and streamed out to form their own lairs. These types, I termed FReeper Sleepers some time back fell back on their longevity here to be understood as credibility and many of us fell for it. Although they were here all the while as agitators under cover, they gained confidence allowing them to attack sometimes with impunity, making the victims appear to be at fault. I am sure and sorry that a great many who would have supported Terri were driven away by threads which looked as nothing more than DU food fights. It was no accident.
Meanwhile we stuck to our principles, and continued. Many of us who fought back, defending our principles were portrayed as mean spirited and unfair, even though we simply defended what was right. The agitators are gone, most, but not all. The remaining will be quieter now, for awhile, but one day, those, too, will expose their faces.
Meanwhile, Terri's Legacy continues today to play a watershed in national politics, similarly unmasking intentions as already happened with Obama Nation and with Rudy.
Like a sausage factory, it might be better to appreciate the results than to see how it is made. Here is the classic thread:
Will FR embrace socialism to make way for Rudy Giuliani as a Republican presidential candidate?
In this epic battle of good versus evil, we can always expect evil to appear, but for now, all is calm.
A new day and new month begin tomorrow, a day of sunshine (even if hidden by the rain...) and optimism. God bless FreeRepublic. God bless Terri's Legacy.
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