Posted on 06/16/2002 5:32:24 AM PDT by 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.
Ok, to be fair, then that would mean that the female freepers get turned on by Mrs. Bush and not the president.
Thanks Jim, and God bless...
No they do NOT become citizens.
reowwwww
Not for an enemy combatant who enters our country out of uniform like Padilla.
Overseas, in a war zone.. with a gun.. and on the opposing side.
That guy should have been tribunaled. The way it sounds now, he's liable to walk if they try him in court.
How do we know that?
That is what his trial will establish won't it?
Look I've supported this President since he announced his candidacy. I campaigned for him. I was drunk for 2 days when he won. I raised hell on this board for GW during the recount. I wrote Congressmen and Senators alike. I've served my country and defended the Constitution with enthusiasm. I know this is your forum so do with me as you will but I can't sit idly by while fellow Americans are denied an ability to prove their innocense.
All I have done is express an opinion contrary to today's political correctness crowd. I have and would not advocate violence and I have not been disruptive to this forum. I have simply given my opinion. You seem to have lost sight of the fact that there is a difference between support and blind allegence. My allegence is to the Constitution not the White House.
If an honest sincere discussion on political topics is not what Free Republic is about then you can ban me but I won't make it easy for you and quit.
How true, how true. An earlier post of mine was met with a comment by sneakypete that if I didn't believe in legislating morality I didn't belong in the Republican party. With attitudes like his, the Republicans will continue to lose elections. We have to be willing to accept that the party can encompass more than one rigid point of view by one rigid faction. If the party becomes the right-wing-fundamentalist-Christian-Republicans-only-allowed, you can guarantee that more Clintons, Dasholes, and worse will maintain or regain power.
Oh my gosh..
There are going to be riots in the streets.
He was a unique case. He was first accepted in a local Mosque when he was 16 years old and still living with his parents. Even then they seemed to check him out pretty carefully as they passed him on from one to another. We don't have many 16 year old agents who still live with their moms.
Padilla is a similiar case. He was a young criminal whose background was beyond question,and had most likely been checked out pretty thouroughly by local Muslims before they passed him up the line. I have no doubt he converted over to Islam while in prison,and his fellow prisoners vouched for him.
Then he never should have been let out.
You have spelled out perfectly a recipe for capitulation in the face of a hostile foe.
I think I see what you're saying, is all I'm saying.
I think I see what you're saying, is all I'm saying.
I don't think so. We seem to have people following each other from thread to thread now. It's gotten personal with some of them.
I stand corrected by your later posts. It was the tone of the words (I know, it is hard to pick out tones from printed words), which sounded like the clueless ones on this thread.
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