Posted on 06/25/2002 3:42:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
The following email is being circulated to our members by various disgruntled former FReepers:
Subject: The Future of Our Free RepublicDear Fellow Free Republic Member,
Many of us at Free Republic are distressed by the extraordinary level of censorship that has been so obviously going on. It is very obvious that individual posts, entire threads, and the entire work of members who have been highly regarded are disappearing into a Memory Hole.
Scores of us have organized an e-mail network that is independent of the communication controls presently, and sadly, being used at our Free Republic. We have carefully documented the unmistakeable evidence that most of the posts, threads, and posters that are vaporized completely are overwhelmingly targeted for their political stance on the Right. These are not Leftwingers. These are not even Middle-of-the-Roaders. These are not disruptors. These are not foul-mouthed delinquents. These are fellow patriots on the Right who disagree with the controllers of FR on specific issues that are now hotly debated by the Right. We have documented that FR will parade before you, as if to hide all of the great posters whose work has been destroyed, a straw-man delinquent that has been banned. This is deceptive.
Treating these fellow patriots on the Right so shabbily is not right. As shabbily as those banned into the Memory Hole are being treated, the most shabbily treated of all are all of the good folks on Free Republic themselves. We came here for honest debate. Free Republic advertised itself as a Forum for honest debate. Without that honest debate...everything at Free Republic becomes shabby.
We can do much better. As a measure of how intense the simmering feelings have gotten among members on this unjustifiable use of deleting, censoring, and banning please link to the following thread. You will notice that one simple and sincere plea from one of our finest members has spontaneously touched off a prairie fire of approximately 500 posts in a mere 18 hours. If it isn't Memory Holed this thread may shoot into the thousands.
If you would like to receive anonymous updates of information concerning the hundreds of Freepers who have networked via e-mail to restore the wonderful honest debate to Free Republic, just drop an e-mail of just one or two words if you like for extreme brevity to:
StopCensoringUs@hotmail.com
And, here's that link back to the snowballing thread at FR:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/704701/posts
Thank you so much for giving your thought to this vital matter for our Internet home.
Sincerely, StopCensoringUs@hotmail.com
Lol. Come now, cur - I've observed your watercarrying for the Nazi sites over on LF, as I'm sure many others have. And you can offer no more than that whimper??
Lay down your sticks and back away from the corpse.
Thank you for your participation.
Regards,
LOL. I'm still waiting for my investment in "Afghanistan Pipelines Ltd." to pay off.
Of course, the more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets...
...And the less likely that you will eat the damned thing in a Chinese restraunt...no, wait, it just means that they will have to use more MSG!-)
And yet Cachelot is still here and your brother is still banned.
Make that a whine.
That was an amusing thread when demi got outed for posting from Hoffman, though. The dog was spinning & lying so fast he reminded me of another woof-woof, Hannan Ashwari.
To: Cachelot
that got your brother booted was probably that he made an a$$ of himself
my brother rarely posted anything on this forum. He got the boot because you put the interests of a foreign country above your own and pushed the abuse button.
761 posted on 6/25/02 9:02 PM Central by VinnyTex
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 648 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]To: Catspaw
that's cause Robinson has let people like you ruin the site. Plain and simple. Just like when you started whining and pushing the abuse button when BillyRay posted the thread defending Billy Graham from the organized Jewish attack on him as an anti-semite. That thread was up till this morning now its vanished down the memory hole of deleted Free Republic threads that don't meet the approval of the Israeli first crowd around here.
You threatened to have my brother banned from this site for posting an article that defended Billy Graham from the organized Jewish attack slandering him as an anti-semite. The thread was up till this morning. And now it's gone. Strange isn't it. A thread back from last March where you threaten to have my brother banned for defending a great man like Bill Graham.
Gaaaaaaawd, what has this site turned into.
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