It looks like he is really gone. if you try to go to his home page it doesn’t say ‘account banned or suspended’, it says ‘nobody by that name’.
Here are his latest posts.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:pissant/index?brevity=full;tab=comments
Here is the banned page.
http://www.freerepublic.com/~pissant/