Posted on 06/25/2009 12:41:23 AM PDT by ThePythonicCow
Good-bye.
A few months ago, I posted some information on bank financial strength. The post was a complex table and it took me sometime to make the post. Not long after, I forget but perhaps 10 or 20 minutes, the post disappeared. Figuring I made a mistake, I posted it again. This time I was pretty sure I posted it correctly. It disappeared within a few minutes. To verify that this was what was happening, I posted a third time. It again disappeared immediately.
I never received any feedback from FreeRepublic on this matter.
It annoyed me, but since I have always trusted FR, and since I have so far as I know maintained a sterling reputation here as a well behaved citizen for the eight or ten years I've been here, I shook my head in confusion and forgot that incident.
Just tonight I posted a more controversial post involving 9/11. It disappeared within minutes (after I had verified that the post succeeded).
Again, no notice public or private, before or after the fact. Just poof.
Good-bye.
I will cancel future monthly FR donations and leave. I cannot support a political discussion and news site which makes seriously intended posts by long standing contributors of good standing just disappear without notice, public or private, before or after.
The SanityIsland.us site, with some Daily Dose images, will remain around likely for one year, then go away without further notice. I may be reached via email at pj@usa.net (yes, I have excellent spam filters.)
Sites have a right to do as they please, but also a responsibility to stand up for the actions they take, at least involving participants acting in good faith. FR apparently is failing to honor this responsibility.
I would ask that in the future removals of posts made in good faith by members in good standing at least be recognized in private messages to the poster after the fact, stating the approximate cause for removal. Even a 'boilerplate' explanation would be better than nothing.
I wish this fine community and the good people here well. This nation is in dire need of honest reporting and discussion.
Skip to comments.9/11 FEMA videographer at Ground Zero goes public
Silvia Cattori ^ | 22 June 2009 | The Voltaire Network
Posted on 06/24/2009 10:52:26 PM PDT by ThePythonicCow
(Excerpt) Read more at silviacattori.net ...
 Announcing MAF's Second Annual "HONOR THEIR SERVICE" Care Package Program and TROOPATHON!!Webcast LIVE from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, June 25, 2009, hosted by Andrew Breitbart and Melanie Morgan, featuring Ann Coulter, Mark Levin, Sean Hanity, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham and many other FReeper favorites! Free Republic will be there!! Syncro is the FreeRepublic.com Team Captain for the Troopathon BLOGGER SHOOTOUT competition and we will also be joining the MAF Team at the Reagan Library! Hope to see you there!
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Be careful who you trust here. Someone is not telling the truth, big time, but I can make no claim to know who.
Some of the interesting claims by Kurt in this interview are that he has evidence that a large room sized vault of the CIA's most valued documents was found emptied under the rubble, presumably before the attack. Large chunks of the planes survived, such as landing tires, despite the claimed heat that took down the buildings. Other structural steel and concrete parts of the building were pulverized to a fine dust. And of course Building 7's sudden collapse is unaccounted for in the official version.
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Damn..... and sell us the capitalist rope we hang ourselves with.
What are we going to do?
I cannot believe these last six months.
It’s like putting frogs in cool water. Then heat it up.
They don’t realize it’s boiling until too late.
That’s how I think about this same situation.
We have a nation of liberals who are willing to “turn” on a paycheck.
They have the media, hollywood and a host of political promises to blame.
Social engineering to the MAX!
There are questions that need asking. That's why the type of stuff that Cow was posting is so corrosive. It distracts from real issues and soaks itself in fantasyland.
9/11 Trutherism is a mental disorder. I've had friends who've succumbed to it, and its a sad thing to watch. If you believe that bombs blew up WTC 1, 2, or 7, or that a plane did not hit the Pentagon, you're either willfully ignorant, or something is wrong with you. These are the simplest assertions in the world to refute, with just 5 minutes of research.
From conversing with the Truthers I know, I have come to the conclusion that it is a quasi-religion for them. No matter how much evidence I show them, it makes not a whit of a difference.
I've shown them a video of a firefighter looking up at a still-standing WTC 7, saying "This building is coming down. You can see it leaning", and they still stand by their theory that the thing was blown up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HLDgjYuRHk
I've shown multiple reports of eyewitness testimony who saw a jet hit the Pentagon, but my Truther acquiantences still stand by their theory that a "missile" hit the Pentagon.
http://www.debunk911myths.org/topics/Pentagon_witnesses
This stuff is loony bin tripe. It's idiotic, but unfortunately has a hold on a good portion of the country.
Rational, intelligent people who do not let themselves be deluded by crazy conspiracy garbage needs to team up and stop this stuff now. A good start is to not let FreeRepublic become a channel to spread this nonsense.
I'm going to report abuse on any 9/11 Truther thread I see, and I would expect that the mods will continue to "pull it".
Bye.
I am some species of 9/11 truther. Up until the last two or three years, I was well aligned with the FR position on this matter.
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You won’t be missed. All of you other genius truthers can take a hike as well, you don’t even need an opus, just leave.
Every one of them thinks they're an armchair architechial engineer and demolations expert.
Same thing happened to me two days ago: thread pulled no explanation. Had three comments and then it was gone, quite annoying.
There was one reply from some fool who made a negative comment about the article while writing that he hadn’t read it and may have made a complaint to the mod.
An explanation of some sort from the mods would be helpful.
Like hell. Truthers have been persona non grata on FR for some time.
No, your view on 9/11 have diverged from reality.
You need to step away from the keyboard and take a month off from the internet. Seriously. Get your head away from whatever truther sewer you've been visiting and get out in the real world and get your logical filters engaged again.
Forget all this! Cheer yourself up by visiting www.sarahpac.com today!
It's best if you pull your head out of your arse, quite frankly. Conspiracy theories are rot in this day and age and you need to pull yourself out of this idiocy.
When we hit abuse, do you know the poster who is making the complaint? Or is it semi-anonymous (like you get see IP or something) or completely anonymous?
Just asking out of curiosity, no specific incident.
Yes. Just the handle, no IP address.
Thanks!
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