And both of you have also......
D1.....you for being man enough to admit (to all) your mistake.
USC.....you for being man enough to accept the apology and go on.....
FReepin' Beautiful!
Posted on 08/10/2002 1:29:46 PM PDT by 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
It would be far easier for me if she was a con artist, I would say she deserved what she got, but it makes me sad to know that people can turn on one another like this.
LOL, how true. Hard to believe that "Find in Page" was all that was needed to search for replies.
On the bright side, we have three more FRiva registrants, imagine that. I am FRmailing you the info.
And both of you have also......
D1.....you for being man enough to admit (to all) your mistake.
USC.....you for being man enough to accept the apology and go on.....
FReepin' Beautiful!
I like to browse through some of the older posts every now and zen. Yall oldies often have links to them on your "me" pages and I just can't resist looking through them. The little hint about how to just point your browser over the posters name and a number at the end shows their sign in number gives a good reference to their age. I forgot who on this page pointed that out on this thread, but it is a neat little trick. Without clicking your page, I can tell you are also an "oldie".
The problem comes if someone were to begin to get "attached" to the site as if it were ITSELF a form of democracy, rather than a site owned by someone else that supports a conservative, democratic republic. These folks would come to believe that they, for some odd reason, SHOULD have a say and an equal vote in how things are decided at FR.
That's as illogical as thinking I SHOULD get to help decide the recipes used at my favorite restaurant. I don't. That's a decision for the owner.
Oh rub it in! Sheesh, I wish I could go. Had family vacation planned six months ago, and had to cancel that to work since we purchased another company and yours truly has to identify all the systems to be integrated and costs. DOH! I need a new job.....
Are you gonna post pics at least?
Maybe the next one!
I actually lost my original registration number. I remember registering on the first day registration was available; bet I had a 2 digit number. Sure wish I could get it back.
Thought you were going to learn how to drive!
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