Thanks Melas...for articulating what many of us feel.
Thank you, and I'll explain why I thought that post was important. I'm pinging Jim, because I'm going to lay it on the line about a couple of other Freepers, and I'm not the cowardly sort to do it any way other than in plain sight.
I was going through Eternal Vigilance's posts when something dawned on me. Despite being abrasive, he actually meant well. In all honesty, what I took for the longest time as outright bellicosity was passion, and a geniune concern for the unborn. I don't feel nearly as strongly about these particular issues as he does, but the more I read the more I respected his positions. Hence my post to EV just laying it on the line without being combative. In short he earned my respect.
Now Jim, I can't say the same for some of the real trouble makers operating under what they percieve as your umbrella of protection. Dear God, Reagan Man [sic] actually posted to me, "Has this thread taught you nothing" as though I'm a freakin' child who can be scolded into political compliance. That would have been almost funny if hadn't been identical to 1,000 other posts by him and others exactly like him.
Jim, I'm not your enemy, and I never was. I think you know that on some level. All I'm asking here is that you take a look at some of the baiting, flaming et al going on and do something about it.