Underground freepmail campaign by unknown disgruntled FReeper

freepmail | 01/16/2011 | Mrs Dogood

[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.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Unless one is in the military..

[Clyde5445]

Well that’s better than blaming it on typer’s-elbow.

[Jean S]

See #155

[RedMDer]

True

[DJ MacWoW]

Yeah the way the date is written was odd.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Holy COW! I was right for once???

I’m backing away from this computer....

:)

[Elsie]

Looks ok to me....

[Graybeard58]

I do have some ideas who it might be though, from the writing style.

Perhaps the one, (she) who semi opused a few weeks back?

[Antoninus]

LOL. It’s a wonder he remembered to remove the “Romney for President” tag at the end of that.

[Elsie]

If somebody wants to start his own website, fine. But he doesn’t need to tear down others to do it.

Yeah!

The MORMONs wouldn't get much pushback at all, IF their founder was not such a lying muckraker.

[Junior_G]

My primary complaint with Free Republic is that it has drifted too far towards a simpleton chat room with incessant adolescent attempts at humor. Your entire effort is greatly diminished by posters that seem obsessed with adding inane comments to serious threads.

Whatever faults Free Republic might have..."not stodgy enough" isn't one of them. Those inane comments are a plus in my book, and easily ignored if you don't like them.

[Windflier]

You know, you ought to ping a fella if you're gonna go so far as to impugn his standing and honor in front of the boss that way. One would think you'd know basic FR etiquette after 8 years here.

The wording sounds like a freeper known as windflier.

Says you, who's had one exchange of maybe three posts with me, out of the 18,000+ posts I've made in the years I've been on this site. And that exchange just happened to have occurred on the thread, "If FR Dies, It Dies".

Co-incidence? Well, I don't know. I do seem to remember parrying some fairly pompous and insulting statements you made to me on that thread.

Theorizing to Jim Rob that I'm the culprit who wrote this, in the way that you've just done it, is a damnable slander on my reputation amongst the people of this community.

Fact: I did NOT write this post, and am in no way connected to this TrueBlue forum. The anonymous person who wrote it freepmailed it to me, as well as lots of others here. Are they all 'in on it' too?

What you've just done to me, is a text book example of the same sort of stunt the leftstream media recently pulled on Sarah Palin. You incriminate me by implication, which then forces me to stand up and defend myself against your scurrilous charge (which you made without a shred of evidence, by the way).

Shame on you.

He's got the words, but not the music...

More insults from one who doesn't know me from Adam. I'll bet you never even noticed me until you saw me on that earlier thread, but you're already such an expert judge of my character that you feel confident enough to malign me in public this way.

For shame.

[tubebender]

Does your keeper know you have the keys to your computer tonight?

[Elsie]

Elsie....did you READ that big thread that night of the “purge”???

OH yeah!!!

I started late and read like crazy, just trying to keep up.

I'm surprised a few others didn't get shown the door that time!

[The Comedian]

Well well well.

A Truther as well.

Nice.

(spit)

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Colofornian]

So what would be the purpose of getting us 4 over there?

(1) It was a FRmail aimed @ as many as they recorded; we were included because we were seen to be secure in the JimRob camp -- & was meant to be some subtle message to us...

(2) The other possibility is they want us to sign up because they want to know who we are.

[Elsie]

I did, but what am I looking for?

[CAluvdubya]

I’ve been giving her hugs and brushing all day. I figure tomorrow is it...

[Windflier]

Windflier already has a board that he set up 2 years ago as an alternate when FR goes down. It’s the ONLY time he uses it. Let’s NOT go making wild accusations.

Thanks, DJ. I appreciate the acknowledgment.

Jim answered my concerns about the FR business model on the thread, "If FR Dies, It Dies". I didn't hold back, and neither did he. We said what we had to say out in the open, and that's the way I like it.

[Elsie]

Holy COW!

You RANG??