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Jim Robinson & FR accused of censorship
WhatReallyHappened.com ^ | 4 January 2002 | WRH.com goobers

Posted on 01/04/2002 10:01:12 PM PST by Vigilant1

FREE REPUBLIC ADMITS IT IS PRO-WAR AND CENSORS ALL POSTS NOT IN ACCORD WITH US GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA

NOW MAKING THE ROUNDS ON THE NET. Cited under "fair use" for educational purposes.

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Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 02:50:39 -0800
From: "Jim Robinson"
Organization: Free Republic
To: "Larry McDonald"
Subject: Re: What Are You Scared Of?

Those who are coming in here to post a bunch of propaganda to smear Bush or otherwise harm the war effort are going to be deleted.

I guess you missed my posts where I said that I am 100% behind our President and the war. I don't care if it's Ron Paul, Larry McDonald, or the head of the John Birch Society himself. I do not want it on FR. And I do not want a bunch of 40 year old conspiracy crap. Not interested.
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There you have it. Free Republic is not an objective reporter of the facts but a blatent supporter of the Bush administrations' war for oil, and by Jim Robinson's own admission.

In another post, Jim states...

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Jim Robinson (Free Republic)
by JIM ROBINSON in This thread

Lots of grumbling lately about deleted posts. Well, my friends, the simple truth is the game has changed. We are now at war.
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Of course, Jim Robinson has it wrong. We're not at war. Only Congress can state otherwise and there has been no formal declaration of war by anyone. Bush hasn't gone to Congress to ask for such a declaration because that would restore Congress to its role in the balance of powers doctrine on which the nation was founded. Bush has no intention of allowing Congress to second-guess him, and indeed Bush has flat out declared that he will not bother informing Congress of intelligence operations from this point forward as is required by law.

Yes, we have been attacked, but it's not really known by whom. Even the FBI admits the IDs on which they based their accusations were faked using the stolen identities of middle eastern Arabs, some of whom have since turned up alive. From this it should be obvious that we cannot really know who was on those planes, only who we are supposed to blame.

But Jim Robinson isn't interested in these facts. He's spiked threads pointing out that the FBI admitted the IDs used by the hijackers were phony. Jim Robinson has spiked threads about how some of the accused hijackers have turned up alive. Jim Robinson has spiked many of the threads dealing with the Israeli spy scandal and the fact that the US has classified evidence linking some of the arrested Israeli spies with the events of 9/11. Jim Robinson has spiked threads suggestng that Bush has exceeed his constitutional authority. Jim Robinson will tolerate no doubts about the righteousness of Bush's war for oil.

But more than that, Jim Robinson displays an arrogant assumption that the presence of a war justifies anything. He argues that we should get behind the government because (he claims) there is a war. But translate that to Germany of 1939. Was it the right thing for the German people to unquestioningly back Hitler because there was a war on? Or would the German people (and the world) have been better served taking a pause and a closer look at just what the government was doing? And if Germany should have examined their government's claims a lot closer, then how can we not do the same now?

Free Republic has shown its true colors. Jim is "not interested" in facts, only in selling Bush's wars. Free Republic isn't about news any more, only about propaganda.


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To: _Jim
Anybody who thinks the center fuel tank on TWA 800 exploded because of some unknown but presumed electrical malfunction is BY DEFINITION loopy. Case closed.
321 posted on 01/05/2002 12:37:55 PM PST by kylaka
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To: Howlin
Little lefties are all out in force now and here posting on FR.

Its an election year and FR is under attack big time.

322 posted on 01/05/2002 12:39:09 PM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: kylaka
And anyone who knows aircraft and not sit all day at a PC would agree (not you - the person you are replying to).
323 posted on 01/05/2002 12:39:25 PM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: 1st_Amendment
Congress shall make no law ...

      1st_Amendment ... member since January 5th, 2002


Jim Robinson is not Congress.

The suggestion that he should allow anyone to post anything here is absurd. (And, in fact, the Courts have already prohibitted some posts to FR, which you might not know because of your, ahem, Johnny-Come-Lately status here.) The NY Times says they publish "all the news that's fit to print. Why don't you try to get your stuff published there?

ML/NJ

324 posted on 01/05/2002 12:42:35 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: ImpBill
It has been way to civil around here. /;-)

You and I don't seem to spend a lot of time on the same threads. You want incivility, click on my SN, and on 'Find in Forum', you will find it.

325 posted on 01/05/2002 12:42:45 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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To: 1st_Amendment
Yes, I am a mindless sycophant.

Where's Michael Rivero when you need him?

(Mike? That isn't you, is it?)

326 posted on 01/05/2002 12:44:14 PM PST by OKSooner
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To: 1st_Amendment
......"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.".....

Good quote..... Agree with it.

Now just where in it does it say" Mr. Jim Robinson shall make no law....... Since this is JR's private property what does Congress making no law have to do with it or the price of eggs in China?

327 posted on 01/05/2002 12:45:12 PM PST by deport
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To: 1st_Amendment
1st_Amendment loser since January 5th, 2002
 

Get lost, loser. You come to only disrupt and smear. By the way, Jim Robinson, who OWNS the server you are squatting on, has not banned your right to post drivel on your OWN page, named "unfreerepublic.htm".

328 posted on 01/05/2002 12:45:14 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: 1st_Amendment
Are you still here? Hmm, I would have thought by your own definition Jim would have booted you by now.
329 posted on 01/05/2002 12:45:27 PM PST by sweetliberty
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To: 1st_Amendment
1st_Amendment member since January 5th, 2002

Go back to DU, 'kay?

330 posted on 01/05/2002 12:47:26 PM PST by facedown
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To: baxter999
Here's what I was responding to:

From an email message received from Jazzfanaticus:

"By this token, if I or another chose to post anti-CIA material from, say, the John Birch Society or Rep. Ron Paul or the late or deposed Congressmans Larry McDonald, George Hansen, Phil Utt, John Ashbrook, et al., would you then run it, sans Webmaster interference? Say "yes," and we'll see if you hold up to your end of the bargain."

BTW, the "anti-CIA" material we are talking about here is decades old marxist propaganda. I sincerely doubt that Ron Paul would associate himself with these birds.

331 posted on 01/05/2002 12:50:55 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: Cultural Jihad
Dang! Posted while I was composing!
332 posted on 01/05/2002 12:53:18 PM PST by facedown
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To: 1st_Amendment
>>>If Mr. Robinson and those who run this forum are going to continue censoring opinions they dislike and banning posters they consider disagreeable, then please stop claiming to be defenders of the U.S. constitution and American liberty.

Read "The New Thought Police" by Tammy Bruce.

And...PS...Mr. Robinison can do what he likes on his web site.

333 posted on 01/05/2002 12:56:05 PM PST by The Raven
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To: facedown
This disruptor posts a link to an FR series of pages written by someone who was registered as "Spirit_Of_Truth_Page" back in 1998, whose name is alleged to be "J. Adams." When you look at the WhoIs for the disruptor's website, it says spititoftruth.org is registered to:

Adams, J (JAD887) spiritoftruth@MAIL.COM
J Adams
PO Box 12345
Nowhere , CA 12345
1-234-567-8910
For some reason, MapQuest has no record of a town in California named "Nowhere" and when I try to call the listed phone number, I get one of those odd recordings from the phone company to check the number and try again. Maybe someone should try to contact the webmaster (Interliant, Inc.) to point out the problem. :)
334 posted on 01/05/2002 12:56:47 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: 1st_Amendment
Last time I looked I was not "The Congress" and I do not make law. You are free to exercise your first amendment right on your own website. I wish you well and Godspeed. Bye bye.
335 posted on 01/05/2002 12:57:29 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: 1st_Amendment
This forum is the property of JR..it isn't a governmental arm.I defend the right of any man to use his property as HE sees fit. I do not always agree with JR's decisions ,but I am his guest here. So I will wipe my feet and before entering and be polite .

There is no compromise in my mind. This is PRIVATE property

336 posted on 01/05/2002 12:58:45 PM PST by RnMomof7
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To: 1st_Amendment; Jim Robinson
"No current Freeper by that name."

Another 30-Minute Wonder.

337 posted on 01/05/2002 1:00:59 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: 1st_Amendment
You continually piss and moan about how bad and misguided Jim Robinson is and how anybody who supports him is a mindless sycophant. Yet you continue to post here. You moan about the fact that you have to follow rules, yet you continue to post here.

Increasingly, Free Republic is simply a closed dictatorship of Mr. Robinson and his followers.

If that's true, then what are you still doing here? Feel free to haul ass if you don't like the rules.

338 posted on 01/05/2002 1:01:48 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: RedBloodedAmerican
Well let's ponder this a few seconds. Link given says Spirit Of Truth, which was at one time a poster here. My search comes up no current freeper by that name, Think it's a coincidence?

I have never been able to figure out the disconnect that occurs when people are banned. I think Jim is tolerant to an extreme. The people that are banned are usually chronic trouble makers with absolutely no social skills, they are without a clue as to how to keep lively debate in the bounds of decency or politeness. How many are really as combatative in person as they are with their hands on their poison keyboard? Don't get me wrong, lively debate is good for the forum, we don't want a bunch of mind-numbed robots that are in complete agreement all the time. But some of the posts are so far out there, that some of us have wondered if someone might be posting from a hospital somewhere. But I digress.

Jim's house, his rules.

Frankly I'm tired of all the whining and attempts to cast dispersions on his character.

Jim, keep doing what you're doing.

For any that know me, I am normally polite and not so forward, but I vowed to be more assertive this year.
Happy New Year everyone.

339 posted on 01/05/2002 1:02:28 PM PST by pubmom
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To: Vigilant1
There's only ONE thing worse than being talked about. NOT being talked about! :-)

JimRob, ye gotta be doin' something right if it p!sses 'em off! *S*

340 posted on 01/05/2002 1:02:56 PM PST by Happygal
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