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.
You know where it is. Go there and bump it and start the discussion there if it is so important to you.
People who come to this forum have no way of finding it now.
So every person on this forum should have their own personal daily thread to promote their ideas? Two thousand vanity threads? That is a recipe for making FR absolutely incoherent, and that is why JimRob limits vanity posts in the first place.
And as far as giving the solution goes, that article most certainly did.
Hardly. You said your idea was somewhere on the forum. That, quite frankly, is dumb.
You don't like this forum, go start your own. JimRob would probably even post the link to it. But these are his rules, and you're in his house, and it's poor form to go to someone's house and tell them how badly they run it.
I can say this with a certainty, I have been educated since I've come to FR and I want to thank Jim and all who dig deep for truth and post articles and links.
I will also add, well written, thoughtful and thought provoking posts aaaaah and pray I never forget the humor!
Cheers to All :-)
Then why don't you leave instead of whining about it? This forum has run just fine for several years, but you come along and tell us it's all just a crock. It's an open internet, go start your own forum to promote another moon landing. Hint - watch the movie Apollo 13. The novelty had worn off so much that it wasn't even major news that another mission was going to the moon.
Why is it dumb? And besides that someone found the solution and I'd confirmed it. That means the solution was in BOTH articles, both the one that was deleted and the one that the deleted article was pointing to. No, what's going on here is the moderator didn't want people to be able to find that article where the solution was given AND the moderator didn't want people to find the solution.
You are being incoherent now. I'm outta here, I really don't care to deal with whiny teenagers.
Based on the evidence I have gathered this forum is a fraud. This forum is not about fixing anything and it certainly is not about letting Americans talk with one another.
The only fraud here is alien2. Be gone, liberal disruptor trash.
Of course not. That's real work. You'd just rather go to someone else's website and call everyone a fraud, and then wonder why everyone dislikes you.
You go watch movies. I'd rather continue the solution conversation.
Apollo 13 was an accurate historical re-inactment. I see you are not about to allow facts to intrude on your opinions, not that I'm surprised.
Fine. Leave! Besides, you're a fraud any way.
I came back because that's twice you've called me a fraud, yet you haven't said why. Do you always make charges against people without substantiating them? But I shouldn't expect so much from someone as incoherent as you.
How would doing that punish FR?
You have a good point--it wouldn't. Actually, your continued posting on FR is punishment enough.
"No I'm not. I'm making perfect sense."
You are a legend in your own mind! I suggest you put a rubberband around your head and snap out of it. If you don't like the comments and subject matter around here, find a new forum. We are here because we like it. If you don't like it, leave, because we aren't going to change just so you can "feel good"!
He's probably off to see his own personal dominatrix.
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