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
So THAT's how you always break it!
That loser spelled it with an "s" rather than a "z".
When they're given attention, that is what they want.
You may think they lunatics for this, others may think it is lunatic to say there are black helos, others that HAARP doesn't exist, or that fedgov doesn't mess with weather, that fedgov doesn't screw up investigations like OKC, or that dozens and dozens of witnesses like cops and firemen who are good enough to testify to what they observed in the commission of a crime, but are certified unreliable by the likes of the NSTB.....so where do ya draw the line? FYI--I've even seen complaints right here at FR about people using the Constitution to argue against laws or policy!!
I haven't seen a constant mention of FR, though there is some....I'm sure I mention FR....hell, I mention the state I live in, I mention my dogs, I mention my former ranch....geeze, could it be due to FR being a part of my life that I would mention it at another website:? Guess what, Senator.....I still see people occasionally *gasp* bitching about lucianne and drudge and limbaugh and keyes and klayman here at FR!!!!
I'd certainly be the first to say its not for everyone [for what its worth, I had to force myself to check in for a few weeks before I felt it was really a forum I'd be willing to try--*gasp*--just like I did here at FR]....a lot of people have a problem handling the concept that the Constitution really means what it says and that fedgov in reality and actuality goes against the Constitution on virtually a daily basis--I'm sure their comfort zone is where the sheeple are. FReepers, of course, know differently.....don't they?
I was thinking the same. Hitler and the Nazis just have so much more of a mystique than Stalin. They both killed off millions with Stalin probably the champ.
Part of why Hitler/Nazis draw more attention is because this evil came out of the center of Europe, from one of the foremost European nations, and not from the periphery (USSR).
It's possible democrats experienced something similar to what conservatives are currently experiencing.
I strongly suspect that if W was found to have taken campaign contributions from the Chinese, got a BJ while discussing military action with a congressman, committed perjury, groped a campaign worker on the day of her husband's suicide, was credibly accused of rape, or blatently ignored laws upon which he strongly campaigned, he'd get a bit of flak from this site.
I think W has yet to be caught in a lie.
ROTFLMAOATPIMP!!!!! He was wise enough to leave my "R" alone!!
Seriously, he could have made a notable president--not an infamous one. :(
Of course, it's not.
Russia was our ally at the time, so his crimes 'don't' count as much. Did you know he had a plan in the early 50's for another extermination, only the politburo (sp?) was having second thoughts? Luckily, he died.
You cannot restore that which is not lost.
Mr Robinson, if your rules did not ban profanity, I would tell you what I think of these e mailers.
Thank you and God bless FreeRepublic.
Yep, left mysteriously on a coffee table in the WH.........
Did you ever see this?
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