Posted on 01/16/2011 11:49:56 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Hello. You don’t know me under this name. For reasons that are going to be obvious soon, I didn’t wish to send you this message with my usual Free Republic account. This message is an invitation, a welcome to a new forum called TrueBlueFreedom.com
While I love the people who make up Free Republic, I have many complaints about Jim Robinson and his cronies who run the actual website. Over and over again, whenever somebody has complained or offered suggestions, they have been told by JimRob and others to go and start their own website if they know so much. Well, I’ve decided to take them up on that offer.
I’ve started TrueBlueFreedom.com for three simple reasons, and once you’ve read those reasons, I’m sure you’ll agree that we need to make a few adjustments if we want this powerful bastion of conservatism to remain. The first reason is simple: Free Republic is too important to left in the hands of JimRob. Jim and his son John have repeated stated that if just one Freepathon goal isn’t met, that’s it - “Free Republic will be dead.” I can’t stand the idea of America without Free Republic. Imagine if we hadn’t been there when Dan Rather was passing around his forgeries, how different things would be today. Now realize that, as things are going, we won’t be around when the next Rathergate happens. We can’t allow that to happen, and since JimRob has publicly refused to deal with this issue, we have to take matters into our own hands. My solution is TrueBlueFreedom.com
The second reason is that I believe that free market capitalism has made America great, and that attempting any other system will lead us to ruin. A belief JimRob apparently doesn’t share, since he continues to refuse to place ads on Free Republic and instead depend on a PBS-esque donation system. We are not NPR, and we are not a charity – why do we raise money like one? For this reason, I’ve developed TrueBlueFreedom.com to depend on advertisements. TrueBlueFreedom.com will not depend on donations, instead, we will depend on the opportunities provided by the free market to create a self-sustaining version of Free Republic – without the constant Freepathons.
The third reason is that JimRob is, in my opinion, a petty tyrant. How many of you know somebody who was purged? How many wonder if you may be next on the list? If you’re neither of these people, consider this: Giuliani was America’s Mayor in 2008. That didn’t stop JimRob from purging all his supporters without warning. How do you know that whoever you support in the Republican primaries won’t raise JimRob’s wrath? How do you know the next purge group won’t be Mormons, Jews, Birthers, Pro-Palin, Anti-Palin, and so on? I believe that purging the non-believers and demanding total mental agreement with the “Dear Leader” is the exact opposite of conservative values, regardless of where JimRob stands on abortion and homosexuality. And for that reason, I’ve set up TrueBlueFreedom.com as a place where conservatives who follow the rules will not be banned, no matter how much I disagree with them. Regardless of your politics, religion, or favorite sport team, you will only be banned for breaking the rules. TrueBlueFreedom.com is a purge-free zone.
So, I hope you’ve read all this, and will accept my invitation. If this seems like something you can believe in, come to TrueBlueFreedom.com, sign up, and start talking. And if you like it, spread the word. Because Free Republic is too important to just let die.
Same goes for FreeRepublic. Lots of things I wish were better about this site. But the alternatives are worse.
was that a theologic diagram of Mormonism or Scientology??
Could be either/both.
Guesses??
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Especially those who told him to sell banner ads or else.
What a bunch of marroons.....
The idiot has no idea how incredibly stupid that statement is. The founder, creator, the ones who made this site "too important" are the ones we can't trust with it?
Dumbest thing ever! Logic FAIL
It’s laughable and convoluted, but also damn nasty.
Someone has to fall on the sword to see who it is....an invitee, and I didn’t get one.
The irony is that, when this boob wants to promote his stillborn website about how rotten Free Republic is, he comes to Free Republic to do it.
Got it. I thought I’d missed a super secret decoder message, or something. :p
The only thing we know about her is she comes in from pitt.edu. Well, actually, that says a lot.
There were a few people who posted to paulycy's thread who were in favor of banner ads. One in particular mentioned capitalism in her post, similar to the Freepmail author's Reason #2.
Cute and LOL
Well we have all seen new websites come and go.
It takes years or decades to build up a site like FR.
Say, how about we purge you obot?
Are you lazy, or just a coward?
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I vote for lazy. As in too lazy to post a sarc tag.
As if the :) symbol was not obvious.
I love kitties; so you are probably right. I wasn’t invited either.
Bet they don’t like pancakes, too.
Looks like blog pimping has hit a new low. I was going to point out that at least they did not waste any of your bandwidth by posting this, but then you already did it for them.
I’m guessing that this person has had their shot at glory, and as long as you you don’t post one like this again for them, you probably won’t hear anything more about it.
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