Posted on 08/30/2013 9:01:53 PM PDT by The Bat Ladys Husband
My involvement with Free Republic began around 2000 when my wife began her vigil around the Texas governor’s mansion in support of GW against the challenge of Al Gore for the presidency. I generally provided the livelihood for the Bat Lady to be able to protest and surround the mansion against the leftists who were kept at bay across the street. While she was registered in order to post after action reports I was a lurker on the site.
Over the years we have attended rallies and protests and meetings. Other groups of freepers nationwide also held rallies, attended protests, and held vigils- activities that were organized and coordinated through the Free Republic site. After action reports were posted almost daily, report after report from across the country from different freepers describing their activities. Even the term "freeper" came to mean one who actively engaged the left to fight against disinformation. We considered ourselves patriots. While we did not risk our “lives, fortune or sacred honor”, we suffered the slings and arrows of a hostile left in the cause of freedom.
With a few exceptions, the “freeper” of today is merely a couch potato who is content to amuse himself by making snide comments and repartees about current news. Few even support the site monetarily. Free Republic appears to barely be able to keep its head above water and its so-called member freepers are such a non-factor of dissent that unlike in the early year, Rush Limbaugh rarely references the site (although he seldom mentioned it).
Early freeper were the ones who got up off the couch, made their signs and used the leftist tactics of street activism against the left itself. Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, and Jonas Goldberg are example of early famous freepers, but Free Republic also had the likes of Basil (Second Amendment Sisters), True black man, Jimmy Valentine’s Brother, Kristin, the entire DC freeper contingent and so many other activists making a difference for conservative causes.
At some point in time, a subgroup, “The Pajama Patrol” arose within Free Republic. What a sad day that was. The mindset of Free Republic turned to the couch potato mentality referred to earlier.
The most current after action report I have seen was my wife’s, The Bat Lady’s report on the May 2013 Tax Day protest. One of the protesters with us was a 90-year-old lady with her handmade sign. If she can do it, why can’t you?
All you new Freepers need to get up off your butt and get out and make a difference. Where are you at the Impeach Obama overpass events? Why aren’t you organizing anti-Syria bombing protest? Why aren’t you marching over Benghazi, the NSA, the IRS or ObamaCare? If you are there why aren’t you posting your reports to inspire and motivate others? You are not the only reader of FR in your city. Find the others and get together. Act in concert. After 13 years, the Bat Lady and I are still in contact with those we met on the front lines.
DC Freepers maintained vigils at VP Gore's house, and prevented code pink from vilifying our troops at Walter Reed every week for years. Freepers once actively protested the left and got Clinton impeached. Some even say we were the Paul Revere of the TEA party,
Is your barcalounger so dear or American Idol so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God.
It is time for freepers to rededicate themselves to the vision that Jim Robinson created. All the clever comments you attach to the threads are less than useless. It is time once again to become a large thorn in the side of those who do not strive for the American Ideal and be the activists we once were. If you cannot post an after action report “go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. …May posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
“It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” Samuel Adams
In answer to my own question: yes it is worth saving if its members make a difference.
Awesome repartee, dude. Just blindingly brilliant. You're some conversationalist, I must say.
OTOH, this fascination of yours with a penis nickname is a bit troubling. You might want to talk with a professional about that...
LOL. I always enjoyed being "chaotic neutral". Nobody knew what the f*ck I was gonna do.
The best part is not breaking character even when the phone rings.
And answering the phone.
In character.
Not that I’ve done that.
It's his way of psychologically preening himself in a manner that won't attract as much attention as, say, a Wiener snapping photos of his minor anatomy and posting them.. The reason he continues to use the word dink is that the only other word he learned was peepee and he's too embarrassed to say that now that he feels he is an adult..
Wonder if the "D" implies that his given name is Dick? Then we could call him a penishead...
Being anatomically correct in the selection of descriptive words, you see...
Do you answer as Larry King or what?
I did, once, just for the lark of it. It was my Mom on the other end. She forgave me eventually.
Noo.... Not Mutant Auto Cowwrecks!!!
Don’t let the door hit you in your ample ass on the way out.
Yes, there is a stunning lack of imagination and creativity in the overuse of a weak infantile insult.
There was a website not too long ago called “Shakespearean insulter”.
Those could be quite amusing.
“Who dares contact me on the imperial communications network?! The guilty party shall have their family conscripted to work in the mynock petting zoo!”
My parents kinda expect it of me.
Dunno why.
Probably due to dad answering the phone with “Saginaw Michigan Better Business Bureau!”
I credit this vanity with ending the freepathon.
A ravenous caffeinated bovine seeking whom it may lick, then destroy their texts whilst mooing insanely.
I saw your post and said, “Naaah. That can’t be right!”
Yup, ten or more minutes ago.
Guess it.. Uh...backfired on the OP and their apparent intent?
I think we were $1700 shy when this thread was posted.
I'll have to look that up, sounds good. The Elizabethans could certainly turn a phrase. I'm half Italian and my ancestors on that side likewise had a talent and vocabulary for insults that picked up where most languages leave off. Genealogy, sexual proclivities, looks, anatomy, these were only the initial takeoff points for some of the abusive invective they had in their arsenal. It was damned impressive.
You keep that up and I’ll send my four year old over to straighten you out. And mark my words, you do NOT WANT TO DEAL WITH MY 4 YEAR OLD.
Not that simple.
If you enter into an ad program, the program decides what is popped to any visitor. Google is typical, and the biggest, program.
So when I visit Breitbart, I get drowned in stuff that is pure propaganda for the Norwegian labour party and their friends, and they track. Breitbart has no influence whatsoever on what his ads/advertizers do.
The only one I’ve seen who can really do much about his own ads is Drudge, and that is because he has volume enough to run single ads outside the mainstream. And he got there by cheating: every ten minutes or so the page refreshes, and each refresh counts as a new hit, counting up money.
Yes.
I expected to see that tamp down over the top by noon tomorrow or so.
Moo! Bang! Moo!
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