Posted on 04/21/2007 6:42:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
We've got some real challenges facing us. FR was established to fight against government corruption, overstepping, and abuse and to fight for a return to the limited constitutional government as envisioned and set forth by our founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and other founding documents.
One of the biggest cases of government corruption, overstepping and abuse that I know of is its disgraceful headlong slide into a socialist hell. Our founders never intended for abortion to be the law of the land. And they never intended the Supreme Court to be a legislative body. They never intended God or religion to be written out of public life. They never intended government to be used to deny God's existence or for government to be used to force sexual perversions onto our society or into our children's education curriculum. They never intend for government to disarm the people. They never intended for government to set up sanctuary cities for illegals. They never intended government to “rule” over the people and or to take their earnings or private property or to deprive them of their constitutional rights to free speech, free religion, private property, due process, etc. They never intended government to seize the private property of private citizens through draconian asset forfeiture laws or laws allowing government to take private property from lawful owners to give to developers. Or to seize wealth and redistribute it to others. Or to provide government forced health insurance or government forced retirement systems.
All of the above are examples of ever expanding socialism and tyranny brought to us by liberals/liberalism.
FR fights against the liberals/Democrats in all of these areas and always will. Now if liberalism infiltrates into the Republican party and Republicans start promoting all this socialist garbage, do you think that I or FR will suddenly stop fighting against it? Do you think I'm going to bow down and accept abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, global warming, illegal alien lawbreakers, gun control, asset forfeiture, socialism, tyranny, totalitarianism, etc, etc, etc, just so some fancy New York liberal lawyer can become president from the Republican party?
Do you really expect me to do that?
BUT...
I LIKE Alan Keyes!!!
Interesting stuff. First time I’ve heard it.
It sure does dirtboy.
Otherwise known as the truth.
Disagreeing with a long-standing FReeper like Howlin is one thing. Equating her with a witch is just plain wrong.
““...to purge is to remove people considered by the group in power to be ‘undesirable’ from a government, political party, a profession, or from community or society as a whole...””
You forgot an important thing from the so called purge here...you’re smart enough you can figure it out. The definition is not met.
Purge requires intent.
They left, either through refusing to obey, or willingly. That could be called an exodus, migration, evacuation, retreat. But not a purge.
Stalin rounding up people and sending them to the Gulag was a purge.
People saying, “I dare you to ban me and up yours, Jim,” is an action of a restrained and good moderator. I’d have banned them much earlier for their behavior. They chose it. In a purge, you don’t choose. You are chosen.
Playing linguistic games won’t change reality. Some chose a flame warrior’s retreat strategy. Some just left. But it was up to them.
Don’t fail to count the number of posters that will now post more often (and donate) because they won’t be attacked with “Duncan donut” etc. I don’t think you realize just how abrasive some of those people have been for quite a long while.
The first huge Terri thread was a group effort on 8-28-03. I think I still have it bookmarked. We had to start a Part 2. There were over 550 Terri threads by November of 03 after we thought she was safe. We trusted the GOP with our votes and they didn’t save her in 2005. Terri’s Legacy List goes on.
Hehe...
Only if you are leave Egypt for the Promised Land.
Reading her flame-bait posts shows that you don't really know who you are talking about.
What do you mean “the other side?”
Because I question what has become of Free Republic? Because you don’t like my questioning what we have become?
What, should I wear a yellow not-conservative-enough patch emblazzened across my shoulder?
It’s looking that way.
“No, you just made fun of me for your first post directed to me.”
I thought it was being humorous, plus since your husband has ushered people out of your house I was curious what he would think of a forum owner cleaning up some points about the purpose of his forum.
You haven't read the Potter books.
She's a witch of the basest sort.
“Anyone here for freedom of expression?...no I thought not.”
You’re moving towards the light are ya? Let me be the first to say it—IBTZ!
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