JoeEveryman and the Anti-FReeper Attack on Free Republic

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.

What follows is from me personally. I am on the FRB board, and I want to make it clear that I am not speaking for that board here.

Why is it that you network nuts would rather lie when the truth would do just fine.

I have to tell you that my little foray into conservative activism has been quite a thrill. In getting involved with this Network idea and trying to help make it happen, I have so far traveled across the country several times at my own expense to attend meetings. I have donated professional services that, had I billed for them, would easily come to over $40,000. I have written sizable checks to help cover various start-up expenses we have had. I am not alone on the FRN board in having made these kinds of contributions and efforts.

So far my reward for this has been to be vilified, in this forum and elsewhere, as every kind of crook and liar.

Just now we are a week away from an event that we have been planning for some months. We have hired the Leadership Institute to come give a class on how to be a more effective conservative activist. We have also arranged for some conservative luminaries to come and speak at the event. This event is an activism conference. It does not promise to be the fun-filled evening of song and dance that the Inaugural Ball was; it was never intended to be. It is a classroom exercise for those who wish to become more effective in their activism. But promoting activism is what we are about, so there it is.

About two weeks ago, privacy data concerning the FRN's Executive Director mysteriously escaped from the personnel records of the Alan Keyes organization. It was posted to an anti-freeper forum, along with a statement -- subsequently denied by the president of the Declaration Foundation -- that this individual had left that Foundation on less less-than-agreeable terms. This was clearly an attempt to harm FRN, and the professional reputation of this individual, through a combination of false statements and invasion of privacy. I would ask readers to think about how they would feel if someone with a personal grudge were to take their records from a company's personnel files and post them on the Internet as part of a smear campaign. This is what happened to our Executive Director.

Last week an individual who is known to have a romantic association with a person high enough up in the Alan Keyes organization to have access to personnel records, posted to this forum a wild-eyed screed attempting to link the acts of what appears to be a professional criminal, to Free Republic and the Free Republic Network. I have seen speculation in the anti-freeper forum frequented by these two individuals to the effect that I personally was involved in some scam associated with this.

I know a smear campaign when I see one, and this is one. A certain disgruntled former freeper, with access to the personnel records of the Alan Keyes' organization, and a romantic link to the author of the hit piece posted here last week, is attempting to ruin an event that many people have worked on for months, for reasons that appear to be based in spite, revenge, and hatred. This person is willing to invade privacy, to make false statements, to use fabrication and innuendo to sow suspicion, and to destroy innocent third parties to get at the one or two she really has an issue with.

I have never seen anything like this in my life. In 1998 I start posting to this web site. I go to a protest or two, I decide to volunteer for some more stuff, I spend my own money doing it, and what I get for this is attacked, called a liar, and in the upcoming week I fully expect to have my own privacy violated in an ongoing and escalating smear campaign waged by the forces of spite and revenge.

It would be really easy to say, "I don't need this," and go back to posting funny graphics and taunting the liberals. But I believe in this, and I would like to keep doing it. I take inspiration from Jim Robinson, who has been called every kind of name by those wackos over there, and keeps plugging along. I guess I'll keep plugging along.

As for you, Mr. Gore_War_Vet, you can take your insults and your insinuations and your 'nutwork' lingo, and stuff it. All I'm trying to do -- all any of us in the Network are trying to do -- is make it possible for the freepers who want to be activists to be able to do it better. We have devoted countless hours to this, for no reason other than that we think it should happen. I can't tell you how rewarding and fun it is to do these things only to have people like yourself call me a liar and insinuate that I am involved in some career criminal's endeavors. To quote Whoopi Goldberg at the end of Sister Act, "bless you."

Well Nick, I can speak for the board. And I along with the other board members are honored to have an individual with your abilities and your self-less dedication to FreeRepublic and the FreeRepublic Network, involved in FRN Board efforts.

I don't know of a single individual who has agreed to work on the FRN Board that hasn't donated countless hours of personal time, or donated personal funds or that hasn't bypassed self-enrichment should those hours or funds have been dedicated to their individual betterment.

I have seen numerous individuals give up their evenings, part or all of their weekends, the fruits of their very creativity in an effort to see Conservatism spread throughout our nation. Not you or any of them seek anything for themselves. None of them have gained anything personally, but each of them have profited in the knowledge that their efforts are spent on doing the right thing. And I must say Nick, I have seen the evidence of our countless hours of work on behalf of the Network. I have always been impressed.

How anyone, especially individuals who know what we are trying to do, could do some of the things I have seen them do, is beyond me. It angers me, it dumbfounds me, it sickens me. What an amazing contrast they are to the fine folks who try to make FreeRepublic and the FreeRepublic Network all that they can be.

Here's to you Nick. Here's to Jim, and everyone else that makes FreeRepublic and the FreeRepublic Network the succes they are. For the more successful they are, the more successful the more sound our nation will be as it moves back toward it's founding principles.

Knowing what our goals are and unable to join in our efforts to attain them, I can only wonder what the goals of these other folks must be. The only evidence I can see, is that their intent is to defeat those who seek Conservatism's everlasting sucess.

May they be blessed with the opportunity to feast off the rotten withered fruits of their misdirected efforts.

But I do know he impugned my integrity by implying that I was acting "Clintonian" in my statement of fact.

Why do you insist on kicking a sleeping dog.

I said "I'm afraid her 17 prior felony convictions do not reflect well on the FR Networks association with her."

You said "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."

I said "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."

Just to keep it simple enough for you to understand pay attention:

BobJ knows of Julies past before Seabrook

Julie works on the cruise committee

At some point Julie 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.

Pick any date for FRN Inc?

And please don't say "It depends on what the meaning of the word "was" is.

"In the interest of full disclosure", ring any bells Jack, think hard?

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