Posted on 06/25/2002 3:42:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
The following email is being circulated to our members by various disgruntled former FReepers:
Subject: The Future of Our Free RepublicDear Fellow Free Republic Member,
Many of us at Free Republic are distressed by the extraordinary level of censorship that has been so obviously going on. It is very obvious that individual posts, entire threads, and the entire work of members who have been highly regarded are disappearing into a Memory Hole.
Scores of us have organized an e-mail network that is independent of the communication controls presently, and sadly, being used at our Free Republic. We have carefully documented the unmistakeable evidence that most of the posts, threads, and posters that are vaporized completely are overwhelmingly targeted for their political stance on the Right. These are not Leftwingers. These are not even Middle-of-the-Roaders. These are not disruptors. These are not foul-mouthed delinquents. These are fellow patriots on the Right who disagree with the controllers of FR on specific issues that are now hotly debated by the Right. We have documented that FR will parade before you, as if to hide all of the great posters whose work has been destroyed, a straw-man delinquent that has been banned. This is deceptive.
Treating these fellow patriots on the Right so shabbily is not right. As shabbily as those banned into the Memory Hole are being treated, the most shabbily treated of all are all of the good folks on Free Republic themselves. We came here for honest debate. Free Republic advertised itself as a Forum for honest debate. Without that honest debate...everything at Free Republic becomes shabby.
We can do much better. As a measure of how intense the simmering feelings have gotten among members on this unjustifiable use of deleting, censoring, and banning please link to the following thread. You will notice that one simple and sincere plea from one of our finest members has spontaneously touched off a prairie fire of approximately 500 posts in a mere 18 hours. If it isn't Memory Holed this thread may shoot into the thousands.
If you would like to receive anonymous updates of information concerning the hundreds of Freepers who have networked via e-mail to restore the wonderful honest debate to Free Republic, just drop an e-mail of just one or two words if you like for extreme brevity to:
StopCensoringUs@hotmail.com
And, here's that link back to the snowballing thread at FR:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/704701/posts
Thank you so much for giving your thought to this vital matter for our Internet home.
Sincerely, StopCensoringUs@hotmail.com
LOL
Ladies and gent's in the peanut gallery, I present the perfect whackjob!
But I don't believe you won't not believe what I believe I believe.
Yes sir.
Oh, very good! Then when you leave, you can blame "them"!
A party or ideology which tries to enshrine the personal corruption of the citizenry as some sort of human right has no business or standing in the fight against corruption in government.
Heck we all hate the Dems. But should we not fuss at Republicans when they don't do what they say they will?
First of all, if I were female I would probably not be a lady :).
Now, of course, if you're of the opinion that Odie is a "good conservative" having seen his posts on this thread (to say nothing of the nazi-infested, child-porn-enabling bilge he usually posts when he gets up to speed), you have been given your head purely to keep your ears from coming violently together.
And you "really like" that jihad-maggot Rivero. Says it all, doesn't it?
If that's not the case, I'm sorry, but that's what it sounds like.
What do you mean?
His/her homepage is still there...?
If what you say is true, I will miss those befuddling posts which seemed to come so easy from Buckeroo.
You people that encourage division because people don't agree with you 100%, to you I say Ash. Ash was the most unifying member we had here. He'd present his balderdash and we'd practice our arguments against him. When the whinny pants finally forced him out (for the tenthousandths time), we began to eat our own. That ain't good!!!
The problem comes from the fact that those who can't tolerate this approach and for some reason feel compelled to try to force something unwanted here are choosing to associate themselves with TOS (in this context, the LF). By you choosing to associate with them, you get hit with the anger they engender from people over here. Unfortunate, but honestly you are making that choice when you decide "I want to be in the same place that people attempting to destroy this other place hang out".
Let's see if I can draw some sort of imagry to make an analogy. Picture two sets of people, located next to each other. There is no particular reason for the countries to not get along. But this one country keeps having some of its citizens cross the border and be destructive. The country that is taking the damage is certainly going to protect its border as best it can. Might even lob a few bombs.
If that doesn't work, then the two are unlikely to peacefully coexist. Will that be the fault of the people who want to be left alone? Or the fault of the people who say "you must understand, our people feel oppressed. And besides, we told them to stop their destructive acts but they didn't".
Hm. Maybe I understand now why one forum is more favorable to the Israelis and the other to the Palestinians.
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