Thank you for a reasoned reply.
I want to say this again. Many of you have seen me say it on other threads. This isn't a message for the good freepers (like you, Tammy) who live in border areas and see first-hand the horrible results of out of control illegal immigration. To those of you - you have my sympathy and full support.
But many of us are seeing names for the first time. Many of those people signed up some time ago but only post on immigration threads or only bash the President or both.
Jim Robinson wrote the foreward to a book called Hillary's Secret War. Free Republic is mentioned prominently in the book and it details how paid opinion shapers come to forums like this one and try to turn conservatives against Republicans. The other thing the book detailed is how Jim Robinson was able to trace where posters were coming from and a lot of people from the 90's were posting from the Clinton White House and The Washington Post.
These people are trying to destroy this forum and turn us against each other. They are trying to force us to spend so much time defending the president and Republicans that we don't do what we do best -- Research and Activism.
I don't know how to fix this problem, but I don't intend to sit idly by and watch these opinion shapers ruin what is the best place on the internet. And I don't intend to let them stop us from moving forward with the conservative agenda and defeating the democrats either.
No one else here does, either. (Aside from flaming, accusing people of being pro-amnesty, and say Bush is more pro-Mexico that US, that is...)