Come on guys. I know you were just trying to be witty, I know what point you were making, and so does nearly everyone else.
The problem is, that even though we are a small community, and many of us have read each other's posts often enough to know you aren't calling for the murder of people trapped in a tunnel, Free Republic IS a public place where what we say is semi-permanently recorded.
Other people, who would like nothing better than to label places like Free Republic "Hate Speech" and legislate it out of existence, are always on the take looking to discredit us.
We do a pretty good job here, we aren't Democratic Underground, even if we do get pretty caustic.