Posted on 06/16/2002 5:32:24 AM PDT by magnum opus dejure
Well, it's been 4 years since I first found Free Republic. I have always felt like I belonged here and have really enjoyed the banter back and forth between us members. I am afraid all this is now over. I am really suprised and shocked at it's suddenness. Before I leave I want to thank a freeper from Michigan who sent me a DVD player last year to give to my kids for Christmas. You reaffirmed my faith in humanity.
I know this thread will be deleted before many people get to read it, but I just can't go without saying a final word. Every since 911 the 'vibe' here at FR has been decidedly hostile. I guess it was a matter of time before the newbie moderator got around to weeding me out for my sometimes unpopular views. So I join the ranks of A+Bert and so many others who gave FR a interesting flavor. I will miss coming here 20 times a day and keeping up on things. But without posting priviledges there is just no point. I must go find another conservative group to try to be a part of.
In the future, when a freeper who has been a loyal member since August 1998 crosses the line, how about a note instead of banning? Would that have been too much? I may have gotten out of line, how is beyond me, but if such a tresspass would have been pointed out I would gladly have refrained from doing so again. It is just not right to just ban an account with no explaination. Especially when the freeper has been here 4 years. I have no idea what I am going to do with my days now that I no longer have FR. Well, I guess I have said my part. It is a sad day when one has to leave family and friends. I feel like some of you were just that. But apparently I am no longer wanted around here. I bid my good day to you all and hope that karma pays it's respects to those who do injustice.
Maybe you should check your own. My words were plain enough. Would you care to tell me where they were confusing or conflicting?
I really am sorry that you don't have access to TV/radio/newspapers/intelligent people but that doesn't excuse your ignorance on this subject. You are so out of line making a hero out of Jihad Johnny that even the most liberal of my friends would find your post to be ridiculous.
Jh, where do you find these people??
As I pointed out earlier in the thread, DVD players are pretty much commodity items these days. Just to prove it, I'll bring one with me (probably a GoVideo or RCA, depends on what we have in stock right now) to Las Vegas to the FRIVA and give it away. It'll be the cheapest we sell, but it'll work.
Maybe.
But I like the odds as low as possible, and the brutal, ruthless prosecution of this 'war on terror' will help lower the odds. Kowtowing to the knee-jerk "civil rights" screechers and the pissants of political correctness (especially the "ethnic profiling" hand-wringers) is no way to fight this kind of war. Some rules may need to be bent, and I can live with that. I certainly will not huddle in a corner like a frightened six-year-old yammering about "slippery slopes".
I trust this President and his administration.
Thank God George W. Bush and company are so easily able to dismiss the frightened mice and their enablers.
No, Padilla hasn't been charged with anything- he's just being held as a combatant for the duration.
The habeus corpus will be to decide if that is lawful.
Like they did in in re Territo, I believe the court will decide that it is.
Well stated. thx
Besides killing us,they are trying to disrupt our society. This is one of the MAJOR goals of terrorism. You get the government to overreact and become oppressive.I see no reason to allow them to do this.
I won't see Osama waggling that bony finger on the TV anymore (bet he's dead) and we bombed them forward to the stone age.
I know they are still some out there, but their days are numbered.
We are gonna win & they are gonna lose big.
"In re territo" is a previous case where a court decided that it was lawful to hold a US citizen as a combatant.
The poor baby. I'd better run right out and conact the ACLU to rescue him. You idiot.
BTW, who cares what you think.
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