When it becomes so painfully obvious that even the major media can see the failure of the Federal government to discharge it's primary duty in protecting us from Foriegn invaders, I would deffinately say there is a grain of truth to it. Additionally, in the sense that America has handed out free money to almost every despot in the middle east at one time or another, she is to blame for 9-11. The resentment many Arabs have toward the U.S. is a result of decades foriegn policy gone wrong. DEAL WITH IT. If you can't, BAN ME....OUCH. It would hurt my feelings so.
You listed quite a few senarios in which people can be banned, some I agree with and some I do not. Seriously, what does this mean, "those who excessively bash our president?" Dis that rule apply when Clinton was in office...please answer me. Bush is a Globalist cronie with a big time globalist agenda that has nothing to do with The Constitution or being American. If you need the proof, just ask. This is no Tin Foil Hat conspiracy, but a documented fact, one that I could provide evidence such that would alay any reasonable doubt.
Some of the reasons for banning would include spammers, pornography, true racial denegration and such. Banning the posts of communists seems like it would do a diservice to Free Republic. I think open debate with communists is the best way to expose there ideas as falacious.
Anyhow, those are my to cents. If you want to ban me for taking serious exception to the outright traitor that now occupies the white house then do so. I will just start my own board. You are dealing with someone who has more than the technical abaility to set pu a site like free republic. I could just start small and ask for donations once I get beyond the bandwidth I am capable of paying for with my own money.