But in some ways, they're still the same, as evidenced by the photo. 
Posted on 07/07/2003 8:28:00 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War
Edited on 07/07/2003 9:09:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
jeepers freepers!
some wingnut posted the following diatribe to craigslist yesterday morning.
Volunteers are needed to help support the Republican Party in New York for the upcoming Presidential Election. The lunatic fringe elements on the Left, who do not believe in the open discussion of ideas, will stop at nothing to disrupt the Republican Convention. We need good old fashioned Conservatives, the kind that believe in God, Country, and Family (the Mom and Dad kind), the kind that played football, baseball, and basketball, to help with security. This is totally separate from the organized Convention. We will meet the groups determined to disrupt the open discussion of ideas (the Convention) with a group of our own and battle them in the streets of New York if that's what it takes. We will get in their way and see if they have balls to move us. The republican convention, like the Democratic convention, is a 'Forum" for ideas. It is the democratic way of spurring debate in this Country. The protesters seek to eliminate that debate. They may state otherwise, but like everything else that comes from their filthy mouths, it's a lie. They say they merely wish to be heard. Then go out and get yourself some candidates and put together a Party...and be heard. Last I know, the "Green Party", "Environmental Party", and "Socialists' Party" are still alive and kicking. Why doesn't the Left just tell the Country (Honestly) what it stands for? Because they know that no one would vote for them. As always, the Left reveals the worst about itself at election time. The left is intolerrant. The Left is hateful. Look on any college campus and you will see how the Left feels about free speech...they don't like it. Volunteer for this worthy effort and I promise you will see some action. Are you ready to defend the right to free speech in this Country. The right for Conventioneers, who have paid the fees to gather and debate, to have that debate free of the anarchists and terrorists on the Left, than join with me in leading a defense against these marauding hordes. Let us meet them in the streets and show them who is Right!sounds like a freeper to me! "The lunatic fringe elements on the Left, who do not believe in the open discussion of ideas, will stop at nothing to disrupt the Republican Convention." and geez, that sounds more like the freepers than anyone on the left that i'm familiar with.
Oh, pleeez ... take this to the authorities ... they deserve to have a good laugh.
Nor am I a child in school, subject to those types of rules. Grow up.
Since I can't identify you, I can't make a direct threat. And it requires a direct threat to a specific individual for it to equal a terroristic threat.
But then, again, you are an admitted leftist ... and that automatically means that you have no common sense and no sense of humor.
Then you are in the wrong place. This is a website by and for conservatives. Sorry. AM
Sorry, but you correctly spelled three words:
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That means that you're overqualified for the position of "respected writer".
We didn't "devote an entire page" to you. Every thread on FR has it's own "entire page;" it's just the way the site is designed. I posted this silly joke yesterday too; totally meaningless, but it got its "own page."
And the reason this thread is here is because I found your post on jakeneck.com to be amusing in the way you (incorrectly) assume the most wacked-out statements by anyone even claiming to be right-wing must be a Free Republic member. (Personally, I don't even think the craiglist post was real; I believe it was just someone making a dumb joke, though of course I can't even make an educated guess from the email address since craigslist nuked the post.)
In any event, Caddyshack gopher references are all over FR, and have been forever. They are not to be taken seriously, EVER. If you take them as an actual threat, more Freepers are going to come along and make fun of your for it, the same way any group of people is going to do when someone new comes through the door and can't recognize the inside jokes. Just let it go. Nobody here is calling for you to be physically attacked.
i think i have every right to defend myself.
Like I said above, as long as you post intelligently, I think you should be allowed to stay, and you will be. Contrary to popular belief, thre are a few serious leftists on FR. They get to stay because they post legitimate arguments, instead of just creating an account one morning and starting to bait Freepers with mindless posts saying nothing more than "Bush is a Nazi" and crap like that. Accept that FR is intended for conservatives and that as a "guest" you'll be kept on a much shorter leash than the conservatives and libertarians in terms of the trash talking you'll be allowed to get away with, and you could hang out here for years.
But in some ways, they're still the same, as evidenced by the photo.
But regardless, my post 71 is generally correct, right AM? I mean, liberallarry and MurryMom get to stick around!
But the best folks were an off-campus group of ne'er-do-wells known as the Revolutionary Communist Party. As in "Stop the Railroading of Bob Avakian!"....We had them in Cleveland, too. They were so off the wall that whenever we got word of a lefty demo/action we'd call them posing as the lefties and invite them.
We had the Sparts too but they were just plain wierd, openly pro-Soviet even though they were Trotskyites.
-Eric
putting ten thousand monkeys in a room with ten thousand typewriters; you don't get Shakespeare, but you do end up with something close to the Collected Works of Bob Avakian.Only if you feed them a lot of Ex-Lax.
-Eric
Now THAT will get you into trouble with the animal rights crowd. An ARTIFICIAL laxative?
Besides, everyone knows that a truckload of prunes does a better job .. and allows the monkees the fun of throwing them at each other at the same time.
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