Posted on 11/28/2001 7:31:29 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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.
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.)
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?
Ahoy! How's your fibre?
I appreciate FR for the news, insights and exchanges with other conservatives. So, I'm glad FR isn't going away.
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?
Thanks again,
Callahan
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.
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
ROFL!!
Am I the only person on this thread who thinks THIS POST, see No. 795, could be by Mojo?
The Hatch Act is irrelevant. That only applies to federal government, not state.
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