The Continuing Degeneration of FreeRepublic: Sealed lips sink website.

LewRockwell.com ^ | October 9, 2001 | Malcolm Garris

[DallasSun]

Oh but wait. George W says this is a democracy under a republic, as does Laura Bush. And Condy Rice and Mary Matalin and Dick Cheney and Tom Ridge and Colin Powell...oh wait a darned minute. Powell? Ridge? Wasn't it decided they were liberals? Because they are pro choice? Wait. So is Laura. Oh no. So is Condy and Mary. And Barbara Bush. Oh No! The sky is falling. We cannot possibly tolerate this! I know. Let's spell their names incorrectly! That'll get 'em. We will butcher the way they spell their names. Like Clintoon.oops..Klintoon...and Hitlery. Ha! That'll show them how brilliant we are. BTW. All opinions welcome. Oh Well. (Excuse my sarcasm.)

[texlok]

>So that's what it was we libertarians were worried about, the poppy fields! I thought that maybe some of us were worrried about ever more government intrusion and policies of "guilty until proven innocent" which they seem to be so fond of these days

You can count me among the 'wacko libertarians', the past few weeks my views apear to be more libertarian than republican, as quite a few republicans have no problems with the government checking everybody and keeping track of everybody and giving up a few liberties here and there. I hear fellow conservatives at work and on here saying things that a year ago would have come from liberals

[Freedom Wins]

Lew didn't write this piece. None of you people bashing Lew Rockwell read his columns. I've noticed that anything posted here from LRC is always attributed to Lew as though he wrote every article he features on his site.

It's Lew's site.

Does he decide what goes on his site 6 days a week? I don't have a clue. But whenever there's a story from the New York Times he always links to it from Free Republic. In fact, when Lew started his site in 1999 someone posted a huge announcement here... Most people have never heard of Rockwell. I think it's safe to say 95 percent of Freepers had never heard of him till people like me started posting his articles over here.. So he got lots of juice from this site with out a doubt. I've had lots of beefs with this site, but I don't make a point to trash it...

This goes back to feuds between the Rothbardians, Conservatives and Randian type libertarians. I'm not old enough to know what happened in the 50s, 60s, and 70s... nor do I care.

[Twodees]

The 50s were my childhood. I'm pretty well up on what happened from the 60's through the present. What the non-Freepers on any site have to say doesn't bother me. Why it makes so many people get their drawers in a wad is that so many people who post here act like teenagers. It's funny sometimes, tiresome at others.

Though the teenagers make the most noise here, they're the minority.

[slimer]

Islamic Jihad has declared war on the United States. Osama Bin Laden has declared war on the United States. More than six thousand American citizens were murdered on September 11th.

Wake up and face reality!!!

[wattsmag2]

What a whining baby!

[ArneFufkin]

Nice piece of revisionist history there in Post 32. This forum has undergone a number of changes over the years, one of which was when characters like you showed up in Spring '99 to unleash your bitter campaign of xenophobism and anti-Republicanism. FR survived that onslaught, Buchanan got his 1/2 of 1% of the Presidential vote like every informed individual knew he would, and the Forum moved on, and moves on, to bigger and better things.

[rdb3]

So, are you saying that you and the leftwing nuts do use the same language?

[rdb3]

Ahhh, but the UN is another story. Anyone with an ounce of common sense knows that the UN is worthless, a point made over and over again on FR. And I concur with that position.

You venture that you are more conservative than I? Well, that's your opinion, but it's a tired philosophy and statement. That's akin to where I'm from and the blacker than thou philosophy. They both mean absolutely nothing.

I never served a day in the military? Ha! But since I can't convince you otherwise, then, whatever you say, dude.

I never said that what I wrote was unique, that's your summation, which is fine with me. But I don't make a distinction, which means you and your ilk are my sworn enemy, just like those damned leftwing, socialist, peaceniks, cause there isn't a damn bit of difference between you.

Got it? Good.

[ThreeOfSeven]

bump for dissenting opinions...when patriotism is confused for imperialism...and profiteering...then its best not to be a patriot.

It's not a good idea to let others deconstruct your language and redefine concepts like patriotism to their advantage.

1)Bush and Cheney need TO PROVE OBL's guilt.

They only need to prove Al Qaeda's involvement in the attack. OBL, as the head of Al Qaeda, can then be held responsible.

2)They need to stop holding Gov'ts responsible for the actions of thier outlaws.

That depends on whether the government sponsors the outlaws and/or fails to do its part to eradicate them.

3)Before we are " in a war " we need the damn president to declare war...or maybe Congress.

It was originally supposed to be that way. But for some reason congress permits presidents to wage undeclared wars.

4)This country of our IS NOT a democracy if they pull this nonsense!!!!

It's a constitutional Republic, though the language of the constitution can be deconstructed and redefined too.

[mrustow]

Thanks for the heads-up, ob. This piece has one good point -- the last one. However, ninety-five percent of it suggests that:

1. Garris pent very little time researching this piece at FR; and

2. It was time for another one of Lew's PR campaigns.

If this guy had spent time reading your threads of Lew's Lackeys, Pat Buchanan, Justin Raimondo AND the occasional neo-con, he'd know that he's talking nonsense. This piece reminds me of an FR hit piece by I think, Lew Lackey Karen DeCoster a few months ago. She quoted some atypical FReepers, and made comments about FR, that made it clear that she was unfamiliar with the site, and an intellectual flyweight.

Look for a new cycle of attacks on Big, Bad Jonah Goldberg, the WSJ, and the weekly reader. Hey, I've got nothing against PR work, but the LLs tend toward the sophomoric and the ignorant, like the last frat boys still awake at a kegger who are drunk off their nut, and who laugh uproariously at every pathetic stab any of them takes at humor.

To do this sort of thing right, it helps to know your target, and to aim at an audience larger than your editor and your three best frineds.

P.S. Have Stu Morgenstern and Gene Callahan yet done a song parody, titled, "Bad, Bad, Jonah Goldberg"? If not, I think it would be right up their ally.

[mrustow]

Just in the last few months, a group called Sidebar Moderators have been carefully selected by JimRob who have the power to move threads out of the sidebars ..... but they often remain on the forum ..... unless they are pulled completely for other reasons. It has caused a lot of controversy, mostly by FReepers who haven't bothered to try to understand this new function.

It's caused controversy because of the thread nannies having inexplicably deleted entire threads, that did not violate any of the FR criteria.

[mrustow]

You mean Lew's not even a Southron, with all his neo-Confederate posturing? Do tell!

[Nuke'm Glowing]

Sigh, I hate to bump this article as it's another from the garbage dump of that site, however, by posting I do so. Quite simply we now have the solution to the problem over there warming up in the bullpen(and you may use this quote Lew or post here and let me know where to send the bumper sticker):

GLASS 'EM

[The Shrew]

FreeRepublic.com is the "leading edge of the sword of Freedom!"

Semper Fi!

TS

[mrustow]

C,mon, C.J., lighten up. I would have missed that parody, if not for you. I LOVED IT. And I love FR. Must I choose?