Posted on 08/10/2002 1:29:46 PM PDT by 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
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!
385 posted on 8/10/02 7:36 PM Pacific by DoughtyOne
To: DoughtyOne
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.
390 posted on 8/10/02 7:45 PM Pacific by usconservative
Yeah, that's what I thought. What it all boils down to is there wasn't a reason for you to throw a temper tantrum on the forum just a few days before our conference regarding something that happened fourteen months ago. And even more so since the problem you raised was already being addressed by the authorites and you knew it. At least if you're as smart as you'd like us to believe you did.
Well I hate to see such a "good friend of Jim's" leave the forum so quickly, but I'll do my damndest to bear up under the exteme sorrow.
Screen door slams on his a--...
A temper tantrum? Boy, you really DO have a problem don't you?
D1, take your meds. A temper tantrum it was not. A defense of Jim and FR it was. Its not my fault you're too stupid to see and comprehend it.
Your two minutes are up.
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This guy has a real identity crisis he needs to attend to before he goes any further with anything.
When I saw everyone using their real names and e-addresses on their posts when I came here the first time I was amazed. I had a long debate with myself as to whether or not I was willing to put my real name to what I wrote and had published here. I finally compromised. I always admired those who posted under their real names though. It seemed to keep the debate more personal and people more civil.
It wasn't until eschoir, Ash and a few other Clinton trolls showed up
It would please Ash to no end to receive any "credit" for instituting ANY change at all at FR.
The growth of the Internet coupled with the fast paced growth of this site made using ones real name non feasible. I wonder how many of the current members would stay if they had to post their words under their real names?
NEVER. You're the one who used to post incindiary threads over there, copy them and the responses you generated, posted them here and caused all kinds of trouble.
Seems to me you're more trouble than you're worth.
Bingo! I think we all had to reassess our opinions of her after that episode.
Amazingly, on the General Interest thread I frequent we are able to discuss different issues such as the education bill, CFR, the Farm Bill and such, disagree with the President on occasion, and not resort to insults.
I have never attacked anyone on this forum for disagreeing with the President. I myself disagree with him on occasion, notably the education bill.
However, this does not mean he has lost my support, nor does it cause me to go into tirades about how he is a socialist, NWO, sell-out, etc. all of which are inflammatory.
A perfect example of the problem is your post to me. Because I support the President, you assume that I attack people, and that is not true. I WILL defend him from some of the inflammatory charges I see posted on certain threads. That is not attacking; that is defense.
Yeah, but you call everyone an anti-freeper...that is if they don't qualify as a "commie rat"
SQUARED!
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