Your bullet points don't apply to me, period. End of sentence. I am not a part of any group or pack on FR. I am my own man and I speak my own mind based on my own convictions. If you have issues with other people on FR, take it up with them, I have nothing to do with your bullet points and you have nothing to show that I do. Period.
In other words, you have absolutely nothing to back up your accusations against me.
If you want quotes, they're legion...look at the name-calling from your fellow "true Christians."
None, none, none of which are my quotes that align with your specific accusations.
Then you went on to say:
I know two people at another forum who were monthly donors to FR, except that they changed their screen names when they moved on after their banning here. I'm sure I can find many more with a bit of asking around.
Besides, people who donate to FR have the option to not have their names listed on the donor lists (monthly and otherwise), so it's almost certain that there were monthly donors who have been banned. You have no leg to stand on when you state -
My statement is factually correct, and verifiable.
My statement is based on the widely published monthly donor lists and dollar-a-day lists. You are making statements about people who 'changed their screen name' and 'I'm sure I can find more' and 'it's almost certain there were monthly donors who were banned'.
Unless you can prove that, it's all speculation for anyone who objectively would follow this and try and determine who is truthful or not.
Since you've been here since 1999, I have to assume you know about anonymous donations - so therefore you lied.
Lied about what? An unknown, un-named, un-documented person that I'm supposed to somehow magically know has been an anonymous donor?
I'll tell you what; if you can prove any of what you are saying, I have no reason not to accept it as true. Until then, any reasonable person will agree that the published list is a basis for facts, an unpublished, un-named, unknown anonymous possibility is not.
From your attitude, it appears you only consider money from monthly and dollar-a-day donors to be "worthy" money.
Once again you fall victim to your own lack of background and context. My reason for even mentioning monthlies and dollar-a-days is because trussell stated:
"interesting that the new group don’t help get the freepathons complete as fast as the ones who were banned did."
This is quite an inaccurate statement, which I then pointed out the fact that none of the banned posters (at that time) were on either of those lists. Since the monthly/dollar-a-days account for almost 50% of the donations, there was no significant impact from there departure.
The most important issue here is that you, trussell, along with ok_now, the returning banned poster who has been banned agin, and one of the other DC'ers, have once again perverted a thread about political discussion with your rants and obsessions. My comments about insults was in context of a long and civil discussion with another poster about the topic being discussed on this thread.
But once again, you have put your personal agenda ahead of the the real purpose for FR in the first place...a political forum for discussion about conservative principals. You invited yourself into the conversation, you started the discussion, you chose to engage with me, you changed the topic. You both made all the accusations...mostly directed to others, not directly to me, because you don't have any substance to anything that you bring to the discussion.
Maybe you need to know that you can bring 25 more of your friends and try the same thing...it's not going to go anywhere. Maybe you should learn your lesson and go howl at someone else. Here, or elsewhere, I don't care either way.
Don’t lump trussell in with me - I do not believe that she and I have ever posted to one another, so don’t attempt to imply that we’re somehow in collusion. Don’t even think of using me to get her banned.
Having said that, in my opinion she is more of a Christian than you can ever hope to be.
The only reason this discussion ever came up was because you were the one bragging on an open forum about how you got several posters banned by baiting them. That’s called trolling, and on most forums I’ve ever been a part of that’s one of the fastest ways to get yourself banned. I guess it’s accepted practice here now, as long as you’re on the right side in Jim’s view.
My original statement stands - you cannot, using the donor lists, conclusively prove that posters who were banned and are now over at DC never gave any money to Free Republic, as monthly or one time donors. Between the anonymous donors and the people who changed names when they moved on, the data set you’re working with has too many holes to reach that conclusion. Your implication is that we are and were nothing but a bunch of deadbeats is simply a baseless smear.
You want another scalp on your belt, go tell Robinson to take mine. Leave everyone else out of this.