Is Free Republic a Fraud? Is it time for Free Republic to go away?

Free Republic | 11/28/01 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

Well, I've reviewed your account and I'll have to offer a partial apology. Looks like you were not suspended before your banning, but you were definitely warned several times in September. You even documented your discussions with the moderators over on one of the AFer sites. And also I see that you were not quite as caustic as Arator. There were several abuse reports submitted about some of your posts, but not nearly as many as some of the others who got banned. The final straw that got you banned is when you became and active anti-freeper and even started dragging some of their garbage into FR. If you want to be FReeeper, you should avoid doing eschoir's bidding.

[Gargantua]

most of you are scum, socialist decievers.

Spoken like someone (who's been posting here all of 5 months!) who hasn't got a clue as to what he's speaking about. Typical nouveau FReeper. Screech first, think later... and then only if told to.

[AppyPappy]

You got here in July of 2001.

[diotima]

Yeah, he's over in his little toilet, rifiling through his little pathetic "archives" of naughty and nasty things that have been said or done on FR.

He is far to cowardly to show up here...no surprise.

(twenty bucks says he's barking orders to LOTF on what to post here.)

[Vinomori]

You are a national treasure. Use the RelationShift system for fundraising (I mailed the book for you)and don't look back.

[Arator]

You are far too kind. I've missed you, too Arator. The same most certainly should... no, must (!) be said of you.

No, YOU da man. ;^)

The reason why guys like us get banned has nothing to do with insulting repartée, for indeed, we only responded in kind to the mental midgets who were stupid enough to insult us first.

Our banning had to do with numbers. There are far more sheep out there waiting to be herded to the abbatoire than there are wolves like us who will chomp those attempting to kill the sheep.

So, basically you are saying that democracy inevitibly devolves to lowest-common-denominator majoritarian tyranny. You know, I think many of the founding fathers worried about the same thing and attempted to build a constitutional bulwork against such tendencies. Unfortunately, their bulwork failed. Of course, FR has no bulwork at all. It's mob rule run amok.

FreeRepublic, and Jim Robinson, rely on those larger numbers. This site does not need the insightful, confident and un-bullyable few... its existence relies upon the many.

So, when a brave and outspoken few make it uncomfortable for the sheep to play "ostrich," we get banned so that the sheep still have a pen (here) to mill about in without having their vapidness challenged, or their comfort zone encroached upon by people who learned at a young age to think for themselves, and who never forgot that all-important lesson.

Where shall we hole up to await the inevitable end of the world, your bunker or mine? LOL.

Has the last 12 years (and especially the last 4)disillusioned you about politics as much as it has me? I considered the Reform Party and Buchanan to be our last best hope to escape globalist tyranny. Now, I see no way out. How about you?

[alcuin]

Calling me Admiral marks you as taking up Mochajoke's lies and misrepresentations hook line and sinker.

Ahoy! How's your fibre?

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks for the flags. :-)

I appreciate FR for the news, insights and exchanges with other conservatives. So, I'm glad FR isn't going away.

[Z2]

On a similar thread two years ago, did you make the following post?

Free Republic and Jim Robinson's Finances

Miscellaneous Free Republic
Source: Free Republic
Published: 07/15/99 Author: Jim Robinson
Posted on 07/15/1999 01:02:53 PDT by Jim Robinson

Just trying to set the record straight.

Well, I'm working double shifts seven days a week for Free Republic and I'm not getting paid a whit.

Jim Robinson

1 Posted on 07/15/1999 01:02:53 PDT by Jim Robinson
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Is it accurate that, at the time of this post, you were receiving a six figure annual salary from Talkspot? Wasn't Talkspot also paying for FR's bandwidth, as well as providing FR with technical support?

Despite this, were you not still holding fundraisers on FR? In light of the foregoing, was it accurate to claim that you weren't being paid a whit?

[BOBTHENAILER]

Just got registered after lurking for a couple years. Saying FREErep is a fraud is like calling Leahy a PATRIOT. Checks in the mail.

[Inspector Harry Callahan]

Thank you for the well-reasoned reply. I must say I didn't expect an answer at all, much less a civil one. I'm archiving it just in case. >;^)

Thanks again,
Callahan

[ClancyJ]

Having been here awhile, I find that those complaining, whining and not liking the rules are one of the following:

Jealous of your success with the site.

Trying to get attention and many replies to their obnoxious views.

Are malcontents, disruptors, negative people that have problems getting along with anyone.

Are people that are not happy unless they can stir up a controversy.

Are ones who are attempting to take over the running of the site, or if that fails, to draw people to their alternative site. However, on their alternative site they are unable to provide the draw of FR but instead merely gossip about FR and run it down. They therefore can draw those who like to tear people down and trash the site or reputation of the owners.

How come when these people are posting here, they eat up tons of bandwidth with all their complaints, questions, etc?

Why invite them back and why worry that they are content here. They won't be content but will only seek to do you and your site harm. If they are unable to abide the rules, then they need to go somewhere else where they will be happy - not attempt to change this site to make it conform to them.

Nonconformists? No - they don't want to conform - they want all of us and the site and the site owners to conform to them. Let them go and take their fans with them. Why do they keep trying to come here.

[Bob J]

I think sometimes you and others expect too much from the Forum. I think of it as a garden...you'll always have a few weeds, bugs, rot...but if well tended, a bounty at harvest time.

[Topaz]

Heya Topaz....did I miss something or did Chuck Allens questions get answered for you? (you said you were uneasy about supporting donations)

My knee-jerk reaction is to defend chuck allen because I have known him to be good guy and friend of FR. I still am not sure what chuck's beef is, but it is not my beef. My statement was that I empathize with his questions and my preference would be as transparent an accounting of FR as possible(damn liberals and thier lawsuits!), and I don't think what I have seen of chuck's supposed transgressions were worthy of him being banned, but none of that changes my mind about JimRob and BADJOE being honorable men that try very hard to be fair and that Free Republic is very worthy of my support. I am content that the dollars raised for FR are spent wisely. Anyway, if JR put all the money on the floor and burned it I would probably still support the site. I would just like to know this so that when prospective donors ask me I could tell them.

I love this site and I think it has and will continue to make a difference in the causes that I believe in, I'm just dissapointed that chuck got mixed up in some kind of misunderstanding.

For all the good things that it does support Free Republic by secure server here

[Cool Guy]

Good to see you around :)

[francisandbeans]

that's cool...I was hoping chuck would come on to this thread and ask his questions, but it appears that he is taking the day off....I just thought I may have missed it.

[Inspector Harry Callahan]

Hi Bob! There's a lot of questions on this thread. Care to lend a hand?

ROFL!!

[Churchill Gomez]

To: All

Am I the only person on this thread who thinks THIS POST, see No. 795, could be by Mojo?

[NYCVirago]

So someone is on state time, using state property, to harass a political web site, in full violation of many laws and regulations, not the least of which is the Hatch Act????

The Hatch Act is irrelevant. That only applies to federal government, not state.

[floriduh voter]

Floriduh voter's on your side. The accusers are the fraudulent party. If it wasn't for free republic, how much more duh would there be in my duh? Free Republic: greatest educational, reliable, informational destination on the web!