BTW, my mom’s parents were “Yanks”. If not for the “Yanks” there would be
no Republic. The South represents many great things, and I am proud of my father’s heritage. I thank God our country survived the Civil War, and we are all Americans now. “Yank” and “Reb” are no better than any of the other over-used hyphenated names used today.
If Free Republic does not stand for Free Conservative Thought I guess I am wasting my time.
“If Free Republic does not stand for Free Conservative Thought I guess I am wasting my time.”
Perhaps you are. It’s their site. Therefore, they get to make the rules. If you don’t like it, post on another site or start one of your own.
As Ayn Rand so aptly put it: “The right to free speech means that a man has the right to express his ideas without danger of suppression, interference or punitive action by the government. It does not mean that others must provide him with a lecture hall, a radio station, or a printing press”(or an internet site, my addition) “through which to express his ideas.”
I’m no coward, so I’ll come right out and say this in public. FR is a privately owned website with a well-defined conservative agenda. It’s pro-God, anti-homosexual, pro-America, fiscally and socially conservative site. Period. I freely admit that I don’t share all of the above views being an agnostic, and having many gay and lesbian friends. However, being respectful to the owner, I don’t belabor those points here, anymore than I would have argued with my mother who thought JFK was the greatest president ever and Jackie O’ the most beautiful woman in all of creation. There is a time and place, and this is not the place for all disagreements.
Just friendly advice.