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?
Evidently the WTC, being a privately owned building and all, had their own terrorism security expert to help them formulate a plan - does the name John O’Neill ring a bell?
O’Neill had been working at the WTC for only a few days when he was killed in the attack. And as you pointed out, he was hired by the owner. The bottom line is that Rudy DID NOTHING.
Sure sounded like a threat to me
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You must be onto something. I think you've nearly got him where you want him. Let's not stop there. Find out if Lando went to church today or if he wrote anything down on paper that others might have even glanced. He might have stated something that completely contrasts anything he's ever said on this site. And we must know just what he is thinking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(huff, huff)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(gotta get myself back to the gym)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(just.a.few. more... for effect...)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(and one more oughta do it)!
When you start trying to make any sense .. get back to me
Oh and not very good on the baiting
It looks to me as if this entire fracas is about social conservatism vs the other strains of it.
***I agree. But socon conservatism is fine with others coming on board & joining in, that’s why FR became such a great place. If someone crosses that line where they disagree with the founding principles, they have no further than themselves to look for the blame regarding all the pain that gets caused.
LOL. I meant it.
Thanks for being such an ass. Movie theaters and FR do not exist without "other peoples money"......let me know when you can fund FR on your own......
Oh, wait...
Touche!
((DCPatriot))
We've both been here NINE YEARS...and I have never replied to you...have never heard of you...NEVER even seen your moniker in the forum
What's up with that? What type of threads do you haunt?
I could stand in front of everyone in here like an AA meeting and proclaim.
"I'M DCPATRIOT! AND I'M A FREEAHOLIC!"
If one of us deserves suspicion it's you.
Cheers!
Apparently, he can.
You make some good points, especially if FR is meant primarily for social conservatives. ... This may sound kind of uninformed on my part, but I hadn’t really picked up on the fact that FR is strictly a socon site, I’d figured it for just “con” up until this week, though I’d certainly noted early on that libertarian thought is met with scorn by many freepers.
***Sam, I’m pinging JimRob not because I want to get you in trouble, but to ask him to put that socon stuff prominently on the front page of the website rather than as a click-through. People like you have been here for 5 years and didn’t realize they were on a socon site. I’ve run into some people that cross the line & denigrate social conservatism and nothing happens to them because socons want to play nice, but eventually enough is enough. It should really be clear on the front page, that might help to avoid some conflagrations in the future.
OMG! Are you kidding?! As I said elsewhere, I have no control over how you interpret what I say, but if you feeeeeel that I am threatening (As opposed to offering some FRiendly advice) then hit the abuse button and let the Mods sort it out.
The Mods will see that there is nothing threatening in either what I said or how I said it...viewed either individually, or as a part of my posting history.
Go for it...
I think most of them are so delusional that they actually believe they are conservatives and they are genuinely confused about why real conservatives aren’t in agreement with them.
***Kinda like what rudy’s mother said about him: “He thinks he’s conservative, but he isn’t.”
To me, as well. And it's definitely not the first time things like that have been mentioned on this thread.
Sadly, Free Republic is not so free anymore.
If the forum wants to ban the supporters of the GOP frontfunner, well, that’s a watershed event.
***That isn’t what’s going on here. It is a cleanout of the most liberal, mean-spirited anti-socons, most of whom seemed to be supporting that social liberal rudy. There are still a lot of rudy supporters on free republic. If this were a purge of rudybots, they’d all be gone.
What COULD he do? The buildings were privately owned. Therefore, it was not his responsibility to come up witb an evacuation plan for property that didn’t even belong to the city.
I only did my duty. It was my privilege.
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