Posted on 01/04/2002 10:01:12 PM PST by Vigilant1
Any article that is nothing but a one line vanity back to another Free Republic thread will be deleted on sight.
That one is was a nobrainer.
How is it censorship when the original article is still there?
Not equitable , sorry boys.
What? FR is not an online chatroom for brainless dolts? Dammit Jim, I'm not a thinker!
Good grief, if it were me, half the people who post here would be gone. And for goodness sakes, if they don't like it, they can leave and start their own site or post their vanity crap somewhere else. Ahhh thank you, that felt good.
Second, if that isn't war, then what the hell is? I really don't care what fancy term or action Congress feels necessary to call it, but in my world, OBL, et al., have declared war on civilization.
Our decisive President George W. Bush is using his executive power to execute our war against terrorist low life thugs and I proudly support him and our brave troops 100%. I trust and respect him and his bold leadership because he is not grandstanding or celebrating his successes with everyday news conferences where his adoring fans would be high fiving and swooning at every syrupy word he says as predictably would prez #42 if he had got off his rather ample duff, pushed his mistress off his lap and actually did what he said he was going to do, but that is another story entirely.
Third this excellent and highly acclaimed forum is Jim Robinson's gifted creation. It is his home. He generously keeps his doors open so that all can enter from all walks of life to join in on the great opportunities provided by this forum to discuss, comment, entertain, learn and become actively involved. But still it is his house, his rules, and surely is it so much to ask his quests to listen up when he lays down the rules of engagement?
I sure do miss Michael and wish he was still posting here.
To my knowledge, it never claimed to be. Free Republic is a bulletin board where people paste the cyber equivalent of cut-out newspaper articles and other people stick comments on them. Sometimes it's to correct bias in the original articles. Sometimes it's to correct outright LIES. Sometimes it's to give a hearty Hurrah! to the author and to salute his integrity. But none of the news on FR is created by FR, nor has this site ever claimed to embrace every ideology on earth.
Furthermore, since it's a private website, it is under no obligation whatsoever to BE "an objective reporter of the facts." If you don't like what you see when you're here, there are plenty of other options. Seek them out.
You could have bumped the original article. I suspect you know that, but are much too fond of whining.
LOL! I never heard of them either. Judging by what I've see here I would say, "no, not important at all."
First: would sombody please tell me if this Rivera guy is the same writer wannabe, who publishes via a vanity press, that I never heard of until I read his tinfoil-hat-type-conspiracy-theorist drivel about Afghanistan, posted right here on FR?
If this is the same guy, he had his facts wrong. Many of us pointed those incorrect statements out. We provided proof that he was wrong. That's what an open debate is all about. Rebuttal and counter rebuttal. He was not pleased that we did not blindly swallow his propaganda and thank him for removing the scales from or eyes.
If this is the same person, Mike Rivera is a non-entity as far as I'm concerned. What an overinflated EGO. Anyone got a pin?
Rivero is very interested in facts. Something that he has yet to learn is that a collection of facts doesn't equal evidence.
But, being from the Viet Nam era, I am totally behind the troops and they are to be honored for the risks they are taking for our country.
I remember when the war in Nam was getting blasted here at home and all the protests. The saddest thing was how the returning soldiers were ridiculed and spit upon, and no matter what will be said about this war in here, I am happy that Jim is doing his part to honor our troops.
They are the ones laying it all on the line. We must cheer their efforts to protect our country.
Perhaps, but could Barbara Hartwell be Monica's screename? If Monica were to post here, I bet you'd see a long thread.
You're right. Rivero's writing makes him sound like psychologically-challenged Libertarian, far-right-wingut.
My apologies in advance to those many moderate libertarians who post to this forum: your opinions and insights are invaluable.
I'm working my way through all the replies...I've read about a half dozen really nasty ones...they HAVE NOT BEEN DELETED.
NO reply I have read so far as been deleted. Of course, I'm only up to #150, but so far, the lack of deleted threads of the strongest possible proof of FR's - and Jim Robinson's - openness to civil debate.
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