I think what fatima is really upset about is the celebrations of freepers whenever someone gets zotted. I have tried to tone mine down, but it’s difficult. Many of those lemmings who flung themselves off the cliff were abusive toward outspoken conservatives. Fatima spends her time spreading joy, love and prayer. She was undoubtedly never a target of those attacks, and probably rarely if ever witnessed them.
One of their pastimes was to gang up on one freeper, flaming them with vile posts, until they replied, then everyone would hit the Abuse button until their target got suspended. Then they would celebrate, and call the missing freeper vile names, and make false accusations that they couldn’t defend themselves against. When the freeper came back from suspension, they’d stalk him/her, and do it all over again. We lost many a good freeper over that. I wonder if anyone has a list of those names.
Free Republic is already a better place since Saturday. The most obnoxious vitriolic trouble makers are gone. Soon, we can get down to the serious work that needs to be done, without interference from those long time trolls. They had their foot on our necks for far too long.
I wholeheartedly agree. Fatima is so delightful that I can easily see where she has been immune from the attacks of many of the liberals here. And she is also right about the fact that we shouldn’t take any special joy about any single person being banned.
However, it is still natural for us to feel a sense of relief that a group of people (many of whom have been openly supportive of abortion and euthanasia) are gone. I remember what was going on during the days of Terri Schiavo’s court-ordered murder, and many of these supposed conservatives showed nothing but cruelty toward those who were fighting to save her. After witnessing this, it became impossible for me to overlook the attitudes of certain FReepers.
I believe in the sanctity of all innocent life and my conscience will not permit me to pretend that beliefs that are totally contrary to that are acceptable. However, if my rhetoric is upsetting to people like fatima who believe the same things that I do, then I apologize from the bottom of my heart.
You pegged that one.
I’ve seen that kind of behavior, too, and it is hard not to be glad to see it over, for the most part.
Hopefully some will come back, but that crap has been going on for years.
Thanks to JimRob and many others for helping to kill the liberal infrastructure that has been slowly gaining strength around here.