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.
Political Cowardice crap aside, why should we expend our tax dollars to help a bunch of criminals out of a sticky situation of their own design? Because it's the "nice thing to do"? The "nice thing to do" would have been for them to NOT sneak across our border via an illegal tunnel.
So does this mean we can't even joke any more, for fear of political correctness? This is getting absurd.
I just want us to stay off the "IS-forbidden" lists. Some of the posts on this thread make it difficult to make the case.
No matter how well-intentioned, that statement is the first step in a long path leading to censorship and political correctness, even if for appearances' sake. Criticize them for what they said (after all, it will be on the record), move off to another thread, whatever. But don't attempt to censor their right to say what they want, even if by reasoning with them. If what they say gets out of hand, the moderator will blast it.