Good-Bye Cruel Free Republic

6-16-02 | wasfree

[magnum opus dejure]

Well, it's been 4 years since I first found Free Republic. I have always felt like I belonged here and have really enjoyed the banter back and forth between us members. I am afraid all this is now over. I am really suprised and shocked at it's suddenness. Before I leave I want to thank a freeper from Michigan who sent me a DVD player last year to give to my kids for Christmas. You reaffirmed my faith in humanity.

I know this thread will be deleted before many people get to read it, but I just can't go without saying a final word. Every since 911 the 'vibe' here at FR has been decidedly hostile. I guess it was a matter of time before the newbie moderator got around to weeding me out for my sometimes unpopular views. So I join the ranks of A+Bert and so many others who gave FR a interesting flavor. I will miss coming here 20 times a day and keeping up on things. But without posting priviledges there is just no point. I must go find another conservative group to try to be a part of.

In the future, when a freeper who has been a loyal member since August 1998 crosses the line, how about a note instead of banning? Would that have been too much? I may have gotten out of line, how is beyond me, but if such a tresspass would have been pointed out I would gladly have refrained from doing so again. It is just not right to just ban an account with no explaination. Especially when the freeper has been here 4 years. I have no idea what I am going to do with my days now that I no longer have FR. Well, I guess I have said my part. It is a sad day when one has to leave family and friends. I feel like some of you were just that. But apparently I am no longer wanted around here. I bid my good day to you all and hope that karma pays it's respects to those who do injustice.

[let freedom sing]

I feel your pain.

[sneakypete]

It really should be "nation first" for all of us--and nation first for the benefit of our descendants.

I surely can't argue with that!

[A CA Guy]

This the longest goodbye since the first Sinatra one.

[sneakypete]

I cry for this Nation, and for Humanity.

Me too,but I see no way of avoiding it. We are dealing now with a group of people who are divorced from reality and ruled by insane leaders. By the time the enorminity of what they have brought on themselves is obvious,it will be too late for them to do anything but die.

[Dec31,1999]

Mr./Ms. Moderator, you guys should compile about 400 pages of this stuff from various posters. You'd shoot to number 1 on the NYT bestseller's list and never have to have a freepathon again.

Now that's the best idea I've heard in a while! It could be called: FreeRepublic.com: Excerps From 1,000 Discussions From 1996-2002.

[sneakypete]

No. The terrorists are dispersed into the populations of a number of civilian populations throughout the world.

ROFLMAO! Uhhh,where do you think the financing and planning for all this comes from? Any idea at all? Here is a hint. Find out the country bin Laden is from,and where the vast majority of the 9-11 hijackers were from.

It's a good thing our President isn't so simple.<./I>

Then again,Scooby-Do probably seems like a intellectual giant to you.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Do you suppose that doesnotmatter used to be wasfree, and he couldn't stand lurking here any longer without putting his two cents in? I got here too late to see his stuff, so I don't know if he sounded the same or not.

[Roscoe]

Uhhh,where do you think the financing and planning for all this comes from? Any idea at all? Here is a hint. Find out the country bin Laden is from,and where the vast majority of the 9-11 hijackers were from.

LOL. Nero Wolfe has nothing to fear.

[sneakypete]

Are you misunderstanding me or am I misunderstanding you?

Looks like I misunderstood your original post. My apologies!

[Demidog]

Who would you get to explain it to you?

LOL...

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

For example, Padilla may be held indefinitely without being charged until the U.S.-declared war against terrorism ends, said John McGinnis. ~~ Do you ever expect the war on terror to end? That war on drugs will give you an idea when it will end.

According to the Charges in question, Padilla determined to detonate a radiological bomb, potentially killing hundreds of Americans and radiation-poisoning hundreds... even thousands... more.

If true, he should be shot... at the very least. This is MASS MURDER we are talking about; shooting is too good for him.

I just want to know:

• Is he a TRAITOR? Do we legitimately ask questions first, and shoot him later?
• Or is he an ENEMY COMBATANT? Do we legitimately shoot first, and ask questions later?

I'm all in favor of shooting the Mass Murderer, I am just vaguely curious as to under which protocol he is to be shot.

Traitor? Enemy Combatant? What's the Protocol? ARE THERE ANY protocols? Are we making this up as we go? I'm honestly at a loss here.

[sneakypete]

American taxpayers are being forced to subsidize their own displacement - on a scale not seen since 1532, when Hispanic immigrant Francisco Pizarro made the Inca fill an entire room with gold.

I wonder how the Bush-Bots are going to try to spin this? At any rate,I suspect they may be fewer in number by tomorrow.

[Spyder]

Looks like I misunderstood your original post. My apologies!

No problem. Glad we're on the same page after all.

[Roscoe]

If true, he should be shot...

He's being questioned at this point. Good thing that our administration isn't made of simple-minded zealots.

[Demidog]

Good thing that our administration isn't made of simple-minded zealots.

"This is a crusade..."

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

He's being questioned at this point. Good thing that our administration isn't made of simple-minded zealots. 1214 posted on 6/17/02 12:36 AM Pacific by Roscoe

We don't merely "question" Enemy Combatants... we shoot them.
And we don't merely "question" Traitors, either.... We Legally Try them first, and THEN we shoot them.

Is he a Citizen Traitor, or an Enemy Combatant?

As far as I am concerned, "Hanoi Jane" should've been considered an "Enemy Combatant" the moment she started running an NVA flak battery... guess what, Jane, you are behind enemy lines, shooting at American Pilots!! You are an enemy combatant!! Take your chances, and sleep in the bed you have made.

I would be 100% okay with that Protocol.

What's the Protocol here? Do we HAVE one? Are we making this up as we go?

[Roscoe]

Yes?

[Roscoe]

We don't merely "question" Enemy Combatants... we shoot them.

He's being questioned. By experts, not fanatics.

[Demidog]

We should at least afford this American Citizen with the notice of charges. The Patriot Act was allegedly only to apply to foreign nationals. That's what the administration claimed it wanted (and it is bizarre that the Bush Administration claims it got what it wanted even though the bill was passed hours after the attacks and so quickly that no Senator or Congressman was even able to read the bill). Unless of course it had been written so far in advance that the Administration had read it even if Congress had not.

They either wrote it themselves and had it waiting for just such an occassion, or somebody else did. Who?

[Demidog]

By experts, not fanatics.

"You're either with us or you're against us."