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
Uh Oh, you're going to get flamed for that. There are a lot of fans of the philosopher and gentleman Ozzy, and his refined and polished wife Sharon.
I couldn't have said it better.
Ahh, MurryMom. Her MO was basic spoilerplate: Make a seemingly guileless point that, upon a second's reflection was not guileless at all but calculated to maximally incense the FReepers, and then...disappear. And watch with delight...as one after another incensed FReepers were drawn into her tat.
All the MurryMoms in the world combined would have little effect on this forum if more of us could learn to discern such spoilers and then simply refrain from engaging with them. They delight in any attention, so withdraw it and they will wither.
So there.
My opinion stands: FR has become the dumping ground for every crack-pot, cockamamie conspiracy theorist who has enough nickels in his piggy bank to buy a roll of tinfoil.
I see the threads pulled almost daily now, and those are mostly the people that are then turning "anti-FR" and causing all the ruckus.
IMO, more strict guidelines are needed.
Heck, I'd settle for strict ENFORCEMENT of the guidelines we have: "No hate, no racism," and no bashing of religion.
People like you, OTOH, have declared that a little fascism can be a good thing.
Whatever.
For those of us with a life, I can't help wondering what this is.
I barely have time to get a sufficient FR fix daily.
I don't have time to visit other sites.
Apologies to all if this seems disloyal.
Sure.
Advocating murder. Advocating genocide. Advocating the killing of people because they speak a different language. Advocating machine-gunning of illegal immigrants.
That's a tiny little short-list for you.
Well I don't run this site so I can't assist you in either option you have chosen. I guess we'll not be seeing you around if JimRob decides not to enforce your insistance. If that's the case enjoy your time where ever you choose to land. However it maybe that you'll decide to stay and try to get you points across and grow a thicker skin. I'm very sure the avid supporters of President Bush, Keyes, Buchanan, Browne, Nader, Clinton, the Congress, etc. all feel or have felt just like you when they've also been called every name in the book by you Anti-Bots.
Bots versus the Anti-Bots.... May the best Bot win.
It's easy enough to totally ignore control freaks, they tend to use the "I want" phrase (or the equivalent) a lot.
Until they become moderators...
Hmmmmmmm.
I've found that sensitivity to epithets is not a good sign.
Aren't well-adjusted informed adults immune to name calling?
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