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If dissent is squashed here, we will dissent in other ways that they can't control, and we will also note what we are especially ticked off about in regards to FR. I should also note something else too. The original piece I wrote came after I was reading this page and there were a number of people here saying that something should happen to the anti-war protestors that day. OPP especially goes after anyone who even tries or suggests that. Now this was just after Sept. 11, and we had already had a few incidents, so this was a valid threat to us. I noted in that article however, that in the end everything went back to the usual verbal sniping we always engage in. Things have calmed down a bit. We can't ignore what we keep seeing posted here, and we will note it (I have to write something on the sniper case, and I think there will be some quotes from posters in that). If we keep that dialouge going not just with me but with everyone who has a difference of opinion (indymedia does it), We will all feel a lot better. It's not like I am saying endure bad language or endure personal attacks (although public figures are fair game, as far as I am concerned). I can definitely understand if that is grounds for banning. But give people a chance to talk about things. People make themselves part of the problem if they don't.

Translation: If you don't do what I want, I'll be really noisy on my website.

Response: Honey, nowadays everyone has a website and a cellphone. What you say you want is for us to make you happy by turning this into a discussion group between conservatives and others. Well, it's a free republic, Muddy's free to play with you if he wants. But personally I could care *less* if you got banned and got all huffy and, as you say, just tried to make us miserable by posting things on your little ole' website. Have a ball. We're supposed to take that kind of petulant threat seriously? I pretty much *insist* you spend a lot of time bothering yourself about us, for all I care.

Oh, and you keep saying "we" like OPP is this huge group of people, not just you and a computer and a rennovated basement room. You're a total fake, in my opinion, and the only reason you're not already banned as a disruptor is because you're not yet disrupting -- you're just threatening to if we don't play the way you like. Free Republic is not for the purpose you envision: it is not a discussion group between liberals and conservatives. And as for telling Muddy that you're just a libertarian, your website has friendly links to "progressive groups" and states that one of your jobs is to monitor the "right wing." Your neutrality language is, once again, lies. We can read, we can read, we can read.