JoeEveryman and the Anti-FReeper Attack on Free Republic

Various Anti-FReeper sites | August 10, 2002 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

The anti-FReepers are on the prowl. As most of you know, there is a group of ex-FReepers who have been dogging us for the last several years. The anti-FReeper community was started several years ago by a group of disgruntled individuals who were banned from FR and then wanted to get back at us by damaging our reputation. This started out as petty name calling and rumor mongering, but they now appear determined to cause us as much harm as possible. Even to the point of attempting to get FR and FRN shut down and the owners and managers of the organizations bankrupted or jailed.

Some of the early members of the group include ex-FReepers Mojo, Aligyrl, Landshark, Z2, Headhunter, LindaM, and others who have come and gone over the years. The most recent additions to active anti-FReeping appear to be ex-FReepers Clarity, Clinton's a Liar and JoeEveryman.

There appears to be a certain love/hate relationship involved here. Some of these people hate FR and its PTB (that's "Powers That Be" in their lingo) with such passion that they cannot stay away. Some of the original members of the AF community have given up and drifted off, some have come back to FR, and some are as determined as ever to kill FR and have me and whomever else they can thrown into prison for whatever crimes they imagine us guilty. Their motivation is pure revenge. Their driving force is hatred.

Their current attack is centered around an attempt to break up the Free Republic Network and, through that angle, to cause as much damage to FR as possible. Unfortunately for all of us, there is a genuine problem with the ex-leader of the South Carolina Chapter. Apparently, there was some money collected for events that was never paid over to the vendors and the chapter leader is accused of taking off with the money. I am not going into all of the gory details here, but I understand that there is an official police investigation ongoing and the SC Chapter and the FRN are cooperating fully with the authorities. The anti-FReepers, led by JoeEveryman, are trying to gain maximum leverage from any fallout from this case and are attempting to use it to bring down FRN.

JoeEveryman ran an FR thread (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/728856/posts) last week on this subject. I eventually deleted it because it was turning into an anti-FReeper haven and I do not want that on FR. The anti-FReepers have plenty of their own websites to conduct their hate campaign. Those who are interested may find JoeEveryman (posting as "Panjandrum") on the LibertyPost.org forum, now appearing to be the latest home of the anti-FReeper community. I have undeleted the JoeEveryman thread for those who are interested in reading it, but have left it locked. I do not want any more anti-FReeping activity on FR.

JoeEveryman is now banned from Free Republic. It is clear on the thead that he ran here on FR and on this (http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readarticle.cgi?114+1485+0+1) thread on LibertyPost.org that his intent is to bring FR down and to cause us as many legal problems as he can. I cannot see allowing him to do this on my own website.

It appears to me that they are either preparing some sort of lawsuit and or are trying to entangle me, Bob J, FR and FRN into the SC case. None of us had anything to do with whatever wrongdoing may have taken place in SC. The South Carolina Chapter is an independent entity, as are all of the FR chapters, and neither FR nor FRN have any ownership or control over their activities. It appears that the anti-FReepers are trying to break that down. We'll see. FRN is cooperating fully with the authorities and I will too if they ask.

In the meantime, I do not want them scheming on FR so they are banned and will remain banned. I will also ban any other FR members who get actively engaged in this attempt to bring down FR.

A request to all. Please do not drag any of the anti-FReeper stuff to FR. I do not want it here.

Free Republic has withstood many attacks over the years, from both the left and the right and I am confident that we will survive this attack from this Free Republic Haters Association as well.

Thanks for your continued support.

Jim

[Dan from Michigan]

Everyone has an agenda..... Remember that.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

See 105, FYI.

[Paul Atreides]

Everyone has an agenda..... Remember that.

That's true; I got mine from DayRunner.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

He was. He left after the billing dispute with Winston & Strawn.

Presumably, then, he has an axe to grind? Not so much based on political idiology but on personal grounds?

[deport]

I'm not a BOT!

What's a BOT in your opinion?

[petuniasevan]

Funny thing. I thought that when you owned something, and permitted someone else to use that something, they had to follow your rules or lose the use thereof.

I guess that the disgruntled anti-Freepers believe they have the right to say whatever they want, then hide behind the 5th Amendment. Well, I have news for them. "Freedom of speech" means that and only that. You are not free to hijack someone else's property and use it to your own ends.

If you want to whine and moan "unfair", go start your own website. Or go to LibertyPost and wallow in your self-pity. Not many others to cry with, huh? And here we are at FR in our thousands. You must stay up late at night fuming and worrying that Freepers might be HAVING A GOOD TIME! Oh, the horror!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

RE: 41. Looks like she was an accomplished con artist. The best that can be done now is see to it that she is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

[eddie willers]

Oh my goodness. It's NaL.

If DonMorgan shows up I will faint dead away. :-)

PS. How ya doing?

[terilyn]

Thanks deport, I appreciate the ping.

[swheats]

Jim I truly admire your fortitude for dealing with so many people and attitudes that desire your end. Which brings to mind: " Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. "

You have withstood goliath of the DNC Media carriers in retaining the vision you started with. Only now to contend with prideful individuals that have misused their access to Freerepublic. You would think if it's gotten to the level of crabby, bitchiness it's time to walk away from the keyboard and rethink what's really important.

I've noticed anytime there are supporters wanting you to do well or receive any type of support from FR, there are those who immediately poison the environment with reasons not to support you.

Thank you for continuing on in spite of your detractors.

[DoughtyOne]

That's an interesting commment, but I truly don't know. I can't imagine that he would possibly think he could get away with spreading false information in that manner without it coming back to haunt him.

[tomkat]

Speaking of looney toons, whatever happened to MurryMom?

shall we see if it's eavesdropping ??      

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the comments. I'm sure they will certainly try. Take care.

[muggs]

People are not always what they seem to be...the good folks of the SC Chapter learned it the hard way.

I had to learn a lesson from my son when he told me the same thing after the DITHF episode. I really never trusted CAL after that.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

She knitted the sweater that Keyes' wore on his short-lived, and truly awful MS/NBC program...( what an incredible waste of a brilliant mind)....she hasn't been herself since it was cancelled..

Wow. Too bad. Couldn't agree more with your view of Keyes' venture into televised talk.

[petuniasevan]

Remember - co-opt their argument.
They wanna call us BOTS for liking President Bush, fine.
Let's go all-out, Yankee-Doodle style.

[Gore_ War_ Vet]

Rob, it needs to be pointed out that nothing has been proven concerning this allegation. When the SC Chapter leaders learned of this from the resort, they were told by Commonsense that they had been paid fully and she had the cancelled checks.

I for one certainly hope this proves to be the case, but I'm afraid her 17 prior felony convictions do not reflect well on the FR Networks association with her. Of course, if she has the cancelled checks her past shouldn't be held against her or FR.

[TLBSHOW]

uglier it won't, here is why. This is a nothing smear attempt with threats against FreeRepublic, Jim and John Robinson, Bob J and others here now and in the future.

Why this is a nothing smear attempt is very simple. What have they accused the above of? Nothing... Yep that is correct nothing.

This site is a threat to the democrats and to power hungry people like Joe and his anti-freaks.........
More attacks will happen all the time to try and stop FR. Most will be liberal attacks which is why we have to keep an eye on the media. I feel there is a connection somewhere between the media and Joe. I just know it. Remember the hannity attack a week ago?

Anyways the other thought is to always attack first against smears and lies. We are good at exposing the smears against the President we should be able to shed light on the attacks from anti-freepers.

[Paul Atreides]

I am the founder of my own Dune site. Immediately after 9-11, there were some people wanting to get into some heavy political discussions about what took place (yep, liberals). We had already posted rules stating that there were to be no real-life political or religious discussions on the site. There are other sites for that and we wanted to keep the Dune site from turning into a shouting match. After 9-11, I posted a simple graphic, showing support for the people of NYC, reading "God Bless America." Well, one member claimed that we should take that graphic down because some of her friends, who aren't even members of my Dune site, were offended at college by all the patriotism shown after 9-11. She came on, accusing us of racism, etc. She was promptly banned. A couple more of her ilk began going to other sites claiming that we were practicing censorship. They were banned also. So, you see, those of the liberal persuasion feel that they are doing something special and wonderful by flouting the rules of a site.

[brat]

"Now, let's drop this issue. There are plenty of good Bush supporters, and a few Buchanan supporters on the forum who both support Jim completely. And this subject is not the topic of this thread."

Thankyou DoughtyOne!