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
I think that what it would/will take for America to be free again is a return to the God that stood behind its building. You misunderstood me, although that's understandable. I, too, hope that what I think you are referring to is never necessary, because the result would only be worse. We no longer have the caliber of people in this country necessary to rebuild it from scratch.
And I dunno - ain't many things as plain as the nose on Bubba's face. Reminds me of a certain Christmas song, actually...
Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!
Molon Labe !!
And liberals will not make the mistake they made in 1994. Should Democrats retake the House, they will rig the system so nothing short of a revolution will dislodge them. Third parties are making a huge mistake when they say the Republicans need to be taught a lesson and maybe lose a race here and there. Yes, the GOP will learn a lesson. But so will the third parties. They won't have even the slightest chance of getting any of their policies enacted into law. We will face off the cliff socialism.
Ummm... that is, if that's okay with you?
(Miss you too!)
They will also have the ability to rig the judiciary, which leans liberal right now.
"Third parties are making a huge mistake when they say the Republicans need to be taught a lesson and maybe lose a race here and there."
Right now yes. I've been suprised I supposed by my own opinions, but I tend to be a republitarian, if that's such a term. I want to see our constitution restored to it's original intent. Right now, outside of a revolt, which the conservatives would lose, I don't see it happening. We would lose only because the liberal machine has been in place for 70 plus odd years. We would be declared the evil, placed under arrest, maybe even shot as the enemy. There are 280 million people in this country, at the minimum, 150-175 million have gone through the liberal education system. We have a lot of work cut out for us. We can not expect to change the general populations' thought within a few short years. The republican party has the infrastructure in place. We need to work within that party to acheive our goals. Voting third party will only give the liberals more power at this time. I don't see an alternative now.
You might think that weeding the forum of" unabashed racists, anti-Semites, Marxist propagandists, angry (and I mean very angry) people who bash everyone and everything, whackos, sickos, you name it" is a thankless job.
But it's not.
THANK YOU.
I hope Art Bell never joins FR, he wouldn't last a week.
Did you know that was a polka band? (who said that?)
When you tell me that you hit the abuse button to alert Mr Robinson or his Mods to each instance of abuse, then you have the right to post this type of idiocy.Until then, stay on the leftist sites that you apparently love.
Anyone speaking objectively is allowed to stay they don't "disappear">
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