You know as well as I do that in almost every case, FR's detractors are the result of simple personality clashes. When a site attracts the number of posters this one does, there's always going to be a lunatic fringe. Folks with delusions of grandeur, paranoia, idiocy, and just plain psychos. Eventually, their madness becomes apparent, people complain, and they get banned. Being the outcasts they are, they can never admit that it was their anti-social behavior that earned them the punishment, nor that they have no inherent right to be where they're not wanted. So they start to level these vicious attacks against the forum, you, conservatives in general, and places like AF and born of people like Eschoir, Mojo, Nav, DonMorgan, etc.. (The Usual Suspects).
By my way of thinking, you owe them exactly nothing. Their objections to FR are unfounded, and based entirely on their PERCEIVED slights distorted by their own psychological inadequacies. If they want a war, fine, we can give that to them. But you don't have to give them a base of operations.
I am truly saddened to see that Chuck Allen has joined this infernal crew. Why a formerly loyal FReeper would want his name forever stained by association with the Undead, I can't imagine. I would have thought he was a bigger man than that.
Free Republic, now and forever, one and inseparable.
Actually, to borrow another line from Dr Murray Bank's old "WHAT TO DO UNTIL THE PSYCHIATRIST COMES," I believe such folk are basically saying:
And when their addiction to manipulated attention is perceived by them to sag, they get more shrill and obnoxious . . . actually reminding me of Shrillfanny and Billdoe.
Maybe we could begin a refrain of merely replying:
WATCH ME, MOMMY, WATCH ME!
whenever they rear their ugly finger work.
Actually, to borrow another line from Dr Murray Bank's old "WHAT TO DO UNTIL THE PSYCHIATRIST COMES," I believe such folk are basically saying:
And when their addiction to manipulated attention is perceived by them to sag, they get more shrill and obnoxious . . . actually reminding me of Shrillfanny and Billdoe.
Maybe we could begin a refrain of merely replying:
WATCH ME, MOMMY, WATCH ME!
whenever they rear their ugly finger work.