Some of these people have stooped about as low as one can stoop. The anti-war crowd is particularly vitriolic. I kid you not, some of the remarks, insults and accusations they have flung at me have been right out of DU. I will say that some of these people were suspended or banned.
I wouldn't miss that contingent one bit. It doesn't make us intolerant boobs; it makes us FReepers as opposed to Code Pink/MoveOn types.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/546659/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/544709/posts
Even one month after afyer 911 Ron Paul and his ideas were popular here. These are just two of many positive posts made here in the nine years I have posted here.