Posted on 12/01/2002 1:23:55 PM PST by BraveMan
Sounds like we have passed stage three and are half way to stage four.
a.cricket
Yes! The Fallacies Index for use by the few, the intelligent,the rational and the polite!
Best regards,
Maybe the reason FR "isn't accomplishing anything anymore" is because: The success already achieved leaves very little left to be done in the short-run. Perhaps it's simply the case that conservative America is now in a position to digest its recent historic gains, and needs to take a [temporary] breather, a "time-out." Until such time as the Left -- which is now in utter disarray, and one wonders how they're gonna pull themselves out of the morass they've dug for themselves -- can figure out what next enormity it wants to perpetrate against the national welfare and the national interest -- in which case, I am SURE FR will BE BACK, BIG TIME. And make no mistake about it, WE WILL BE.
The second issue raised seems a tad more troubling to me:
Some social issues are almost unmentionable on Free Republic today. More than one Freeper has griped that posted articles on immigration often just disappear. Other Freepers have been just blacklisted from Free Republic - for offending the sensibilities of founder Jim Robinson or the small clique under him that largely actually runs Free Republic now.
It seems to me FWIW that posted articles on immigration should never be pulled -- unless they are clearly one-sided, rabid, or grotesquely ideological. Immigration policy happens to be one of the most critical public concerns alive in America today. If we can't talk about it here, well, where can it be talked about -- in any clean and sober way?
I hope that FR never "locks itself into a box" -- but stays open to a world that it undergoing profound change, to a very large degree because FR was there to facilitate just that outcome in the first place. Otherwise we might manage to "seize defeat from the jaws of victory."...
I have been here since 1998. All that time, I thought FR's finest achievement, its greatest blessing, was its utter hostility towards all things ideological. I hope we never forget to take a page from our own "book"....
Patience. Vigilence. Prudence. These are the hallmarks of historic American genius, values that continue to inspire....
These are values that I associate with FreeRepublic.com. And I hope and pray I may continue to do so.
May God continue to bless JimRob and his able associates.
To make Free Republic great again, a number of things have to happen.
First, all involved - from ordinary Freepers to "JimBob" himself - have to accept that having an (R) next to one's name doesn't make a politician beyond criticism.
Second, all involved must also accept that Pres. Bush isn't God. And then, all Freepers must commit to doing again what made Free Republic great - hounding any politician at odds with Red Nation's masses on social issues; if that means picketing Pres. Bush everywhere he goes if he hints at amnesty for illegal aliens or tacit support of racial quotas, that's what it takes
I do see your point of this part. I am a Constitutionalist, and I have noticed that any concern regarding Bush straying from true Conservatism is met with...um...shall we say...something less than tolerance. :-)
I personally believe that it's better for us to hold them accountable than to be satisfied with less than a Conservative position.
most people got that without you having to say it! (cept sugarbabe) lol
good post, and thoughtful of you to get JimRob's permission... :)
Oh?? Do tell us -- what is good about Islam AND those who identify with "The Religion of Peace"?
In a nutshell.
No need for interpretation.
Nothing but pure ignorant garbage.
"Bad" thoughts are punished and the thinker's posts eliminated!
Turn that frown upside down and there shall be no dissent on these posts!
Man, what a world these folk live in. The thing I love about FR is the dissention and passionate arguments. Thank God for the thinking class!
Some flaky ones spend their lives crying in their beer. Others, like JimRob actually work to make a difference.
One can read Matt's rants on the newsgroups by searching on his email addy: GLC1173@aol.com.
Here is one of his more recent posts:
"It may shock you - but I and a whole lot of others here in the heartland who voted for Bush thought from before his election that he was indeed a moron and long before 9/11 wasn't trustworthy."
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