Underground freepmail campaign by unknown disgruntled FReeper

freepmail | 01/16/2011 | Mrs Dogood

[Jim Robinson]

Hello. You don’t know me under this name. For reasons that are going to be obvious soon, I didn’t wish to send you this message with my usual Free Republic account. This message is an invitation, a welcome to a new forum called TrueBlueFreedom.com

While I love the people who make up Free Republic, I have many complaints about Jim Robinson and his cronies who run the actual website. Over and over again, whenever somebody has complained or offered suggestions, they have been told by JimRob and others to go and start their own website if they know so much. Well, I’ve decided to take them up on that offer.

I’ve started TrueBlueFreedom.com for three simple reasons, and once you’ve read those reasons, I’m sure you’ll agree that we need to make a few adjustments if we want this powerful bastion of conservatism to remain. The first reason is simple: Free Republic is too important to left in the hands of JimRob. Jim and his son John have repeated stated that if just one Freepathon goal isn’t met, that’s it - “Free Republic will be dead.” I can’t stand the idea of America without Free Republic. Imagine if we hadn’t been there when Dan Rather was passing around his forgeries, how different things would be today. Now realize that, as things are going, we won’t be around when the next Rathergate happens. We can’t allow that to happen, and since JimRob has publicly refused to deal with this issue, we have to take matters into our own hands. My solution is TrueBlueFreedom.com

The second reason is that I believe that free market capitalism has made America great, and that attempting any other system will lead us to ruin. A belief JimRob apparently doesn’t share, since he continues to refuse to place ads on Free Republic and instead depend on a PBS-esque donation system. We are not NPR, and we are not a charity – why do we raise money like one? For this reason, I’ve developed TrueBlueFreedom.com to depend on advertisements. TrueBlueFreedom.com will not depend on donations, instead, we will depend on the opportunities provided by the free market to create a self-sustaining version of Free Republic – without the constant Freepathons.

The third reason is that JimRob is, in my opinion, a petty tyrant. How many of you know somebody who was purged? How many wonder if you may be next on the list? If you’re neither of these people, consider this: Giuliani was America’s Mayor in 2008. That didn’t stop JimRob from purging all his supporters without warning. How do you know that whoever you support in the Republican primaries won’t raise JimRob’s wrath? How do you know the next purge group won’t be Mormons, Jews, Birthers, Pro-Palin, Anti-Palin, and so on? I believe that purging the non-believers and demanding total mental agreement with the “Dear Leader” is the exact opposite of conservative values, regardless of where JimRob stands on abortion and homosexuality. And for that reason, I’ve set up TrueBlueFreedom.com as a place where conservatives who follow the rules will not be banned, no matter how much I disagree with them. Regardless of your politics, religion, or favorite sport team, you will only be banned for breaking the rules. TrueBlueFreedom.com is a purge-free zone.

So, I hope you’ve read all this, and will accept my invitation. If this seems like something you can believe in, come to TrueBlueFreedom.com, sign up, and start talking. And if you like it, spread the word. Because Free Republic is too important to just let die.

[Truth29]

"She has a strain of 7 toed cats in the barn. There is a name for them but I cannot spell it..."

Polydactyl or Hemingway cats.

[onyx]

LOL. You’re a lousy editor, too, but I changed the typo on the FReepathon thread.

[freekitty]

Well, I am staying Mr. Tyrant. I didn’t get an invite either. LOL

[bd476]

Well that’s nice of you to do that, after calling me lousy. You, you! LOL!

[Eaker]

LOL!

That Rangle has mad skilz!

[BuckeyeTexan]

Only one Sanity Squad member has been zotted. That was Non-Sequitur and it had nothing to do with birtherism. parsifal left on his own.

[Seadog Bytes]

[hadit2here]

But only the domain is registered at GoDaddy. The site is hosted at onlineinstitute.com, with out of the box SMF forum software installed. The IP isn’t listed as oiservers, onlineinstitute.com or similar, but assigned to LiquidWeb. So OI is renting server space from LW, then parceling out virtual websites or virtual servers from there. I’ve seen this before. If OI was so big as to have CBS, Sony, ABC as clients, wouldn’t the IP be listed in ARIN as OI’s not LW’s?

Even senderbase.org shows OI as assigned the 69.167.173.234/31 block, which is only two IP’s if I remember correctly. LW is assigned the 69.167.128.0/18 block. OI is only listed as a “domain” under LW. So OI looks like it’s a reseller/VAR of LW. Netcraft has oliserver.com running linux/Apache at 69.167.173.235

My reasoning was that if OI isn’t big enough to own it’s own IP block, they’re probably selling VPS’s on their two IP’s- not something that I could see that would handle much of a website, let alone a forum with an amount of traffic.

But then what do I know? I’m one of those who think that FR is doing things pretty much right as it is. Don’t want no emoticons, banner ads, pop ups, pop unders or that krap(tm).

Thanks for your thoughts. #;^D

[Eaker]

onyx, I want to see you jump from the dock through the open car door.

THAT would be cool!

[onyx]

ROFL. Yes, I was so pleased to see that you posted without editing. I didn’t check to see if anyone had posted before me....LOL.

[bd476]

Or you could click the picture and help keep the lights on at Free Republic.

[onyx]

*Bless your heart* [for real] Eaker, I would love do try!
Nah, I would love to be able to have a chance of making it were I to try!

[goat granny]

thank you, now I can spell it but cannot pronounce it..LOL

[Eaker]

I have two dogs that are polydactyl.

They both are real good “mudders”.

[onyx]

LOLOLOLOL
WOO-HOO!

[cracker45]

So...you like to “watch”, eh?? Better get back on yer meds and leave the action to others! HAW

JC

[bd476]

onyx wrote: "*Bless your heart* [for real] Eaker, I would love do try! Nah, I would love to be able to have a chance of making it were I to try!"

There ya go! Good deal.

Eaker, as Onyx' manager/booking agent, I'll set up the show and I'll even reduce the admission price.

One thing though, Eaker. I don't recommend the Valet Parking.

[cracker45]

So...you like to “watch”, eh?? Better get back on yer meds and leave the action to others! HAW

JC

[hadit2here]

Thanks. I’d just never heard of it, although I haven’t heard of a lot of things. [ grin ]

It’s just that an out of the box PHP forum software probably hosted on a VPS by a hosting company who only has 2 IP’s doesn’t seem to me to be conducive to future expansion to try to rival FR. I guess that they could change software and hosters as they grew, but... maybe we should ask JohnRob what that might entail.

No wait, I already know from my little server and believe me, I wouldn’t wish those headaches on a liberal. Oh, wait... on second thought, yes I would. [even bigger grin]

THX

[Red Steel]

Only one Sanity Squad member has been zotted. That was Non-Sequitur and it had nothing to do with birtherism. parsifal left on his own.

It does shows us about their overall mindsets. I seem to recall others and in IMO, MilspecRob and Drew68 deserved zots by the mods before they asked for it. Both of those guys are liberal Politijab posters as is Parsifal.

Peace on this thread.