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
That's funny. I could have SWORN we allowed some Germans and Japanese to live!
So much for doing more than "hafe" a job!
Really, TLBSHOW, your rants are precisely the kind of thing I'm talking about. This is just utter, senseless jibberish.
So, am I supposed to march down the streets of my neighborhood, where there are at least half-a-dozen families whose religion is Islam, and burn the dirty Muslims out?
Or what DO you suggest? You and others like you need to learn that "hate-filled posts", which are forbidden on FR, include the kind of cr*p that you just wrote.
It's just evil, and it's COMPLETELY anti-American. Period.
The ones you mentioned qualify. So does Scotsman. Bob Ireland, too.
Deb, to a lesser degree, [nod, nod, wink, wink].
There must have been some sort of celebration that I missed, I guess I will have to make up for it all on my own, ha ha ha. YES!!!!! How can these people all sit around and dwell on their petty squabbles?
Thank you Mr. Robinson and God bless.
I'm afraid her 17 prior felony convictions do not reflect well on the FR Networks association with her.
Just to clarify, there IS no Network association with her. The Free Republic Network did not even exist at the time the Seabrook event took place.
243 posted on 8/10/02 7:26 PM Eastern by IronJack
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Jack,
How Clintonian of you! Why is it that you network nuts would rather lie when the truth would do just fine.
The problem is that if I say the sun rises in the east you all say I'm an Anti-FReeper the sun rises in the west Let me parse this for you so you have less wiggle room.
"In the interest of full disclosure", ring any bells Jack, think hard?
Commonsense aka Julie Redick aka Julie Reddick aka Julie Gates aka Julie Nicholson: WAS on the FR Network Board of Directors until on or about Jan. 20 2002 when she was removed by the board for financial improprieties.
Haven't you "grownups" learned yet that telling the truth is the easiest way out? What happens next, BobJ gives her the FReeper of the Year Award in the Rose Garden?
Mom always said it was better to tell the truth upfront than be branded a liar.
Jim, I'm no Anti-FReeper, but the behavior of the Network and BobJ in particular is unconscionable. My silence (or yours) in the face of these lies lends credence to them.
FReep On! (If I still can)
I do think that the preoccupation that the DC Chapter seems to have with the FRN is perculiar. And I think that JoeEveryman and perhaps even you would probably be more convincing in saying that y'all aren't AFers if you didn't make posts that are indiscernable from those I would expect to see from Mojo and crew.
I hope Commonsense gets what is coming to her, in a nice long jail term. And I hope anyone else who was involved in trying to line their own pockets by essentially stealing from the efforts of conservative activists get their commupance as well.
But when it comes to trying to engage in some sort of bit of "office politics" where personalities involved are trying to get back at others, I have no interest.
I usally agree with you BUT there is no way that rated that high. On a scale of 1 to 100 (100 being best) I think a minus 42 would be more appropriate. Sorry to disagree with a fellow FReeper. Zip
Why are you belaboring this issue. It has been proven untrue in the past and I am sure will be addressed again (maybe FReepmail to keep from embarrassing you) but it will be resolved and I HOPE YOU ARE MAN ENOUGH TO APOLOGIZE TO JIMROB when it is.
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