JoeEveryman and the Anti-FReeper Attack on Free Republic

Various Anti-FReeper sites | August 10, 2002 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

The anti-FReepers are on the prowl. As most of you know, there is a group of ex-FReepers who have been dogging us for the last several years. The anti-FReeper community was started several years ago by a group of disgruntled individuals who were banned from FR and then wanted to get back at us by damaging our reputation. This started out as petty name calling and rumor mongering, but they now appear determined to cause us as much harm as possible. Even to the point of attempting to get FR and FRN shut down and the owners and managers of the organizations bankrupted or jailed.

Some of the early members of the group include ex-FReepers Mojo, Aligyrl, Landshark, Z2, Headhunter, LindaM, and others who have come and gone over the years. The most recent additions to active anti-FReeping appear to be ex-FReepers Clarity, Clinton's a Liar and JoeEveryman.

There appears to be a certain love/hate relationship involved here. Some of these people hate FR and its PTB (that's "Powers That Be" in their lingo) with such passion that they cannot stay away. Some of the original members of the AF community have given up and drifted off, some have come back to FR, and some are as determined as ever to kill FR and have me and whomever else they can thrown into prison for whatever crimes they imagine us guilty. Their motivation is pure revenge. Their driving force is hatred.

Their current attack is centered around an attempt to break up the Free Republic Network and, through that angle, to cause as much damage to FR as possible. Unfortunately for all of us, there is a genuine problem with the ex-leader of the South Carolina Chapter. Apparently, there was some money collected for events that was never paid over to the vendors and the chapter leader is accused of taking off with the money. I am not going into all of the gory details here, but I understand that there is an official police investigation ongoing and the SC Chapter and the FRN are cooperating fully with the authorities. The anti-FReepers, led by JoeEveryman, are trying to gain maximum leverage from any fallout from this case and are attempting to use it to bring down FRN.

JoeEveryman ran an FR thread (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/728856/posts) last week on this subject. I eventually deleted it because it was turning into an anti-FReeper haven and I do not want that on FR. The anti-FReepers have plenty of their own websites to conduct their hate campaign. Those who are interested may find JoeEveryman (posting as "Panjandrum") on the LibertyPost.org forum, now appearing to be the latest home of the anti-FReeper community. I have undeleted the JoeEveryman thread for those who are interested in reading it, but have left it locked. I do not want any more anti-FReeping activity on FR.

JoeEveryman is now banned from Free Republic. It is clear on the thead that he ran here on FR and on this (http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readarticle.cgi?114+1485+0+1) thread on LibertyPost.org that his intent is to bring FR down and to cause us as many legal problems as he can. I cannot see allowing him to do this on my own website.

It appears to me that they are either preparing some sort of lawsuit and or are trying to entangle me, Bob J, FR and FRN into the SC case. None of us had anything to do with whatever wrongdoing may have taken place in SC. The South Carolina Chapter is an independent entity, as are all of the FR chapters, and neither FR nor FRN have any ownership or control over their activities. It appears that the anti-FReepers are trying to break that down. We'll see. FRN is cooperating fully with the authorities and I will too if they ask.

In the meantime, I do not want them scheming on FR so they are banned and will remain banned. I will also ban any other FR members who get actively engaged in this attempt to bring down FR.

A request to all. Please do not drag any of the anti-FReeper stuff to FR. I do not want it here.

Free Republic has withstood many attacks over the years, from both the left and the right and I am confident that we will survive this attack from this Free Republic Haters Association as well.

Thanks for your continued support.

Jim

[Great Dane]

I really find it hard to believe that these people has nothing going for them but hate, where do they find the time.

I am most disappointed in hearing Clarity and Clinton's a liar, have gone to that side of the fence.

[usconservative]

You explain why it is you had to do this on your "friend's" forum. We're all ears.

I don't know who has the worst reading comprehension problem sometimes, you or your clone Tlbshow. Wait, let's poll the studio audience!

The votes' been tabulated, and it's you.

If you had bothered to:

A) Stop, read, and take the time to comprehend what it is I wrote in context and

B) Stopped to consider that if I had said *anything* that would harm JimRob he'd pull the posts himself ...

You might not be making such a fool of yourself.

[DBtoo]

Why Liza Minnelli? What does it mean to be a Liza Minnelli of a whole show? Is this a common expression now?

[usconservative]

His post here is being used against FR right now at their site. Did you read what he said he said HE SAID the word fraud. He is just like joe spewing forth without reality!

YES, I know they're using it ... OUT OF CONTEXT, yet you want to hold ME accountable for that?

I think I need to re-poll the studio audience!

Fact: I didn't accuse FR of fraud, did I? No. Try reading what I wrote, or are you and D1 really the same people? Alter ego's perhaps?

Fact: I *am* accusing a certain person in South Carolina of FRAUD.

Now, how is that a damaging comment to FR? Go ahead, 'splain it to me. I'll wait.

Idiot.

[DoughtyOne]

You sure waste a lot of time.  Here, let me help.  Here's the questions I asked.  Let's see if your capable of maintaining for just a minute or two.

So you tell us what the purpose of your post was, since nothing more could be done than is being done.  You explain why it is you had to do this on your "friend's" forum.  We're all ears.

Best of luck to you.  Now focus!

[DoughtyOne]

Insert final Jeopardy music here...

[Bob J]

During those 'old' days, thankfully, someone was kind enough to point me in the correct direction.

That must have been Deb (no offense Deb!).

As I've noted before, you could read all of FR in an hour and make responding posts.

Those were the days! If anyone starting mucking it up, they would get singed because others couldn't get it all done in under an hour. I remember the first time I couldn't read ALL the threads after I got home from work. Something inside me said "Uh oh, this isn't good"...heheh.

[2Trievers]

"They'll take upon themselves the task of bossing around others or seeking some quasi-leadership role and will gradually assume airs ... Sometimes the need to be somebody is taken a little far. This is, after all is said and done, just an internet site ..."

BINGO! You've GOT it! &;-)

[F16Fighter]

"We have a lot of anti-Bush people here who begin their criticisms with inflammatory rhetoric, and then when they are answered by Bush supporters they accuse us of being nasty.... My opinion, for what it's worth."

Think you've got your charge a bit twisted.

Quite frankly, you are one of the people who considers ANY iota of criticism of Dubya to be verboten, or else they are persona non grata AND "anti-Bush".

If some FReepers feel the man is wrong on an issue, we'll speak our mind and challenge him to remember his constituency...

On the otherhand, we certainly be in his corner when warranted.

[usconservative]

I see no point in discussing anything with someone who calls others "sick fools" and demonstrates for the entire world to see, a blatant reading comprehension problem.

At some point, ya gotta know when you're arguing with an idiot and recognize the fact that after 2 minutes or so, it becomes hard for onlookers to determine who's who.

Since we're coming up on two minutes, I'll cut my losses with you here, but you feel free to continue blathering on without me. You're good at that.

[tpaine]

Nav's splediferous self-rationalization was beyond words. His payoff was being allowed to be the banning authority at the defunct Trixie crappola site...exactly what he lost when the Coven was disbanded. And, the reason why he left here in a hissy-fit...he couldn't stand not being his own version of god. - bwolf
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The anti-FReepers just can't stand to see you still standing.

3 posted on 8/10/02 1:36 PM Pacific by navigator
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The crowning glory of this thread would be to get JR's reaction to the navi kissyface comeback line above.

Dare we ask?
-- I'll try, but as everyone knows, - I have unclean hands, and probably won't rate an answer.

[Torie]

This seems to be a bit of a shot the messenger problem. Maybe you could have handled it more diplomatically, maybe not, but you did handle it, with honor and decency. We have different styles and ideology, but you just went up a notch in my book. I'm a total transparency kind of guy though, so maybe not wholly objective.

[hope]

CAL is was a staunch Alan Keyes supporter and worked his campaign... people who supported candidates other than W could not stand the heat within FR during the elections.Their agenda has been layed bare and it tends to show what people are really made of..It ain't always pretty....

It's disgusting to the marrow what some will do behind your back....No words can describe them.

[F16Fighter]

DITTO

[usconservative]

Torie!! Long time no see! :) Thanks for the kind words.

Yes, it's a "shoot the messenger" problem, and D1 has that issue with about everyone. Don't think I'm the exception here. ;-) God forbid you say something he doesn't agree with or he doesn't understand. LOL!!

[DBtoo]

17 prior felony convictions?! Good grief!! That's sad to hear.

[The Mayor]

I have a strong motivation to support the Constitution of the United States and defend it's borders. I would hope that you could understand that some of us are not merely disrupters but do care a great deal about this nation and it's longevity under the ideals it's founding fathers promoted.

Well said.. Ditto!

[harrowup]

Geesh...this is like the old days when I had to bribe my way onto the Pirates' dwarf with Petunia leading the way. There are arguments going on that I haven't a clue about...nobody tells me nothing...'ceptin fer JR every afternoon on the video link...and then since nobody tells him nuttin, eyes in the dark most the time seems like.

Wolfie...we had a chicken that used to hide eggs and she always pretended to be sick...just so we wouldn't eat her...smart chicken lived well into her teens...fatter than the capons and still pretending to be sick...and they say feigning is limited to ducks.

[Jhoffa_]

I know the anti-FReeps are a pain in the behind.. They would key cars, take candy from children, bat mailboxes and exploit any other equally ridiculously or childish opportunity to cause FR harm.

I just don't know why.

I think this one belongs in the medical books. It's some kind of new disorder, possibly a cross between stalking and serial vandalism.

[Maurice Tift]

However, why the hell do folks here visit those sites

Sites... what sites?