Great post, Carry_Okie.
Now, I’ll make this short. Last night I got an email from Maelstrom. I will answer here, since there is NO need to email me to my personal email address, this is forum discussion. He had much to say, but this was the bottom line:
“Either way I hope you will put in a good word for me with Jim. I promise I won’t post negative stuff about JD anymore to stir the pot. I hope that is enough.”
Maelstrom, I don’t want you or anyone else ‘banned’. I just want the repeated false accusations stopped. In 12 years on this forum, I’ve never tried to get anyone banned. It’s Jim’s house, his business who he bans. I’ve often wondered why he hasn’t banned me!
If you have relevant “negative stuff about JD”, it should be posted. As with McCain, or ANY candidate, we need to know the facts. But what you were continually posting was was proven wrong, was neither relevant or truthful except for your statement that you were ‘stirring the pot’. That is the problem. I’m sorry you don’t seem to understand that. Hopefully we can get on with it, because this old country is running out of time!
Well stated.
Geez AuntB, ‘Strom, ‘Storm, whatever-his-name is (or was), he gets banned to outer Slobovia, and then he comes scratchin’ at your door and ya gave him a blanket, put the mangy mutt in front of the fire, and served him up some Milk Bone biscuits, and put in a good word for him!
(sigh) Well if he’s not going to post those lies about Hayworth, that’s all that matters anyway, just like you said.
And you’re right it isn’t about ‘stirring the pot’, it’s about posting TRUTHFUL and ACCURATE information. The garbage ‘Strom or ‘Storm (whatever) was posting was nothing but lies and he was called on it *multiple* times and yet persisted in posting the lies in true DU-like fashion.
That dog (the ‘stirring the pot’ gambit) won’t hunt.
Free Republic is a pro-God, pro-Life, pro-family, pro-Liberty, pro-America, pro-constitution, pro-limited government, pro-defense, pro-borders conservative site. I’ve posted it a thousand times.
We are not a free speech chatroom and definitely not a liberal debating society. We are conservative activists with certain pro-Liberty conservative goals in mind. Liberals, RINOS or people who are actively working against our stated conservative goals are unwelcome trolls.
Those working against our conservative candidates or causes and or FOR the domestic enemy are unwelcome trolls. You’re either with us or against us.
In this case, McCain IS the domestic enemy. I want him out of there and I take it seriously enough to ban serial trolls even if they’ve been here for ten years or more!!
By the time these next two election cycles are over, we will either be successful or FR will be a ghost town. I’m going for broke. Our Liberty and our right to exist as a free nation is at stake.
OUT with the socialists AND the RINOS!!
Hope this helps.
In 12 years on this forum, I’ve never tried to get anyone banned.
I did, with FairOpinion, 68grunt, et al. THOSE bans were richly deserved. Fools I can handle; serial propaganda artists who repeatedly fill the sidebar with BS posts, and then clog the forum, cheer-leading a 24-7 Tar Baby claque of spammers and disinformation artists, and then run when confronted later in the thread, are too destructive to tolerate in a place dedicated specifically to developing, exchanging, refining, and promulgating conservative ideas. Those people were wantonly destructive to the purpose of this forum. There are so many other places they can sell their bilge, that it is not a free speech issue.