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

[beowolf]

Machiavellien ploy Bwolf. A few more puffs up navi's already inflated ego, and he will walk again, arisen!

Geeze...can you blame me? Tell me you don't miss a target rich environment where they are fun to shoot at because they can shoot back?!-)

[beowolf]

I've heard he even is beginning to look like the Dolly Llama

Tell me that it isn't so! He must be going Cornfusion (sic), then. I hear it happens in the MidWest...something about the genetically modified seeds they are using!-)

[Amelia]

If FR is being attacked from without, it also appears that we have a Trojan horse in our midst. Self appointed arbiters of what is right or conservative need to get a grip and get over themselves. Destruction from without and within. Phyrric victories for both camps.

Very well said.

If we begin by destroying our base, what do we have left?

[humblegunner]

Hey, I'm Pre-Banned!!!

"We're sorry, but an error has occurred in confirming
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[TLBSHOW]

It Sucked as bad as Joeeverymans did a while back but then he came back to haunt FR.

[eddie willers]

If we begin by destroying our base, what do we have left?

Zig.

[beowolf]

We, usually, don't agree...but, on this point, we certainly do. Can we call GhostBusters?!-)

[Illbay]

Wasn't it always partly that and part of it's appeal?

It used to be rather innocent, though--even the tinfoil hat stuff.

The problem isn't that silly stuff gets posted, but that along with it comes the most mean, vicious garbage you've ever seen.

CASE IN POINT: A post that was pulled earlier, yesterday or this morning, about the shooting of a cop in Ohio. Allegedly, the guy who shot the cop during the ever-popular "routine traffic stop" was one of the fringe-type FReepers. Well, because of that, the thread reporting the story degraded into a bunch of replies like "too bad he didn't take five more down with him," etc.

It's just VICIOUS, HATEFUL, SPITEFUL stuff!

[Illbay]

It's one thing to discuss what direction our government should take and I always think people are really just letting off steam when they say that kind of thing...

That's what I'm saying.

But the prevailing groupthink has deteriorated to the point where, if you say you're for freedom of religion, you're a "Muslim lover." If you say you're for punishment of child molesters, you're told that you're for the state taking over the custody of all children, etc.

There's no middle ground. (Oh, and I should add, if you're for ANY sort of laws at all, you're a "@%$* statist," courtesy of our Libertine friends).

[Illbay]

"I've been called stupid, illiterate, mentally ill and a liar by people who dislike me because I do not care for Alan Keyes."

That's what I'm talking about. I happen to very much like Alan Keyes, but I don't see anyone who doesn't like him as a "threat to my manhood" or whatever.

There's just a serious shortage of perspective around here.

[IronJack]

A true OPUS (standards of which were long ago established by OWK

I've gotta disagree with ya there. Don Morgan wrote the best opus. In fact, it was so good, he wrote it again! And again! And again and again and again. Don Morgan's "opus" was more like a miniseries.

[beowolf]

ROFLMAO....I stand corrected!-)

[Jean S]

I've gotta disagree with ya there. Don Morgan wrote the best opus. In fact, it was so good, he wrote it again! And again! And again and again and again. Don Morgan's "opus" was more like a miniseries.

LOL! I remember that. You're going back a ways.

[Illbay]

But we can't discuss Islam when it does this?

We discuss it all the time. However, too often I'm afraid that we devolve any such discussion to the point where we're no better than they are (CASE IN POINT: The oft-posted graphic showing the airliner plunging into the crowd at Mecca during the pilgrimmage. I mean, this is SERIOUS STUFF; that kind of thing ain't funny).

I'd LIKE to think that the reason it was an outrageous crime for the Jihadistanis to do what they did is because it was so far outside the bounds of civilized behavior.

Then I see people here advocating we "get even" with them for killing OUR "innocents" by slaughtering THEIR "innocents."

To me it's just madness.

[IronJack]

Yessir! Why, in my day, folks knew how to write an OPUS!! 'Course, that was back in the days when we had to chop wood to power the computers, and our only bandwidth was carrier pigeons.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

...accept my apologies if you thought I was using your name. There is quite a bit of difference in the two.

The names are too close for comfort, even for me. Close enough so that someone could mistakenly think it was me. It is my understanding that Jim has banned people if they cut and paste to AF sites. I certainly don't want to be in that situation. I'm glad we got this all cleared up.

[eddie willers]

LOL!
The Columbo of opuses....
..."oh, just one more thing..."

[dixie sass]

Evening Eddie, is everyone from the old crowd dropping by? Are we having a reunion yet?

[dixie sass]

IJ, you forgot the two tin cans and string to get on to the net!

[dixie sass]

I understand.