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Here's my entry:

I've been patient with Free Republic. I've even avoided being drawn in by its provocative rhetoric. But I've finally had enough. Before I begin talking about specifics, let me just mention that there's a time to keep silent and a time to speak. There's a time to love and a time to hate. There's a time for war and a time for peace. And, I maintain, there's a time to shape a world of dignity and harmony, a world of justice, solidarity, liberty, and prosperity. Or, to put it less poetically, we must assert ourselves as champions of freedom and keep our priorities in check. But the problems with Free Republic's stances don't end there.

Free Republic's smear tactics should be labeled like a pack of cigarettes. I'm thinking of something along the lines of, “Warning: It has been determined that Free Republic's barbs are intended to subject us to the snappish yapping of belligerent losers.” Please humor me for a moment while I state that Free Republic frequently insists that separatism is the key to world peace. This lie of its cannot stand the light of day, and a few minutes' reflection will suffice to show how utterly myopic a lie it is. Nonetheless, I am more than merely surprised by its willingness to violate the basic tenets of journalism and scholarship. I'm shocked, shocked. And, as if that weren't enough, Free Republic will not be punished for its anger. Free Republic will be punished by its anger. There's also the possibility that it may be punished for subordinating all spheres of society to an ideological vision of organic community, but I am tired of hearing or reading that tribalism is a viable and vital objective for our nation's educational institutions. You know that that is simply not true.

Free Republic's janissaries are a bunch of drooling simpletons who prostate themselves before their beloved Free Republic. I know because I have experienced that personally. I realize that Stalinism is a tremendous problem in our society, but does it constantly have to be thrown in our faces? To ask that question another way, do spleenful hucksters like Free Republic's secret agents actually have lives, or do they exist solely to control your bank account, your employment, your personal safety, and your mind? It's questions like that that unmistakably get people thinking about how Free Republic claims to have solutions to all of our problems. Usually, though, these supposed solutions ride on the backs of people who are poor, powerless, or who don't have the clout to launch an all-out ideological attack against the forces of voyeurism. It's these types of “solutions”, therefore, that demonstrate how given a choice of having Free Republic tear down everything that can possibly be regarded as a support of cultural elevation or having my bicuspids extracted sans Novocaine, I would embrace the pliers, purchase some Polident Partials, and call it a day.

Free Republic's anti-intellectualism society has its own, petty slogan. That slogan is, “Palliate and excuse the atrocities of Free Republic's secret police”. What this slogan lacks in wit, it makes up for in its ability to subject us to an intense barrage of misinformation, deception, and hidden propaganda. Free Republic's capilotades share a number of characteristics. They use psychological tools to trick us into doing whatever Free Republic requires of us. They pervert the course of justice. And they use every conceivable form of diplomacy, deception, pressure, coercion, bribery, treason, and terror to leave behind a legacy of perpetual indebtedness in developing countries. Put together, these characteristics imply that Free Republic believes that it has a “special” perspective on revisionism that carries with it a “special” right to consign our traditional values to the rubbish heap of exclusionism. The real damage that this belief causes actually has nothing to do with the belief itself but with psychology, human nature, and the skillful psychological manipulation of that nature by Free Republic and its inarticulate grunts.

Why is Free Republic crushing national and spiritual values out of existence and substituting the malapert and rash machinery of collaborationism? It says it's doing it for some worthy cause. In reality, Free Republic is doing it because relative to just a few years ago, self-pitying psychopaths are nearly ten times as likely to believe that it is a champion of liberty and individual expression. This is neither a coincidence nor simply a sign of the times. Rather, it reflects a sophisticated, psychological warfare program designed by Free Republic to use organized violence to suppress opposition.

If it were up to me, I would create a political atmosphere in which the zero-sum model of group competition gives way to coalitions among groups so that they can work together to ask the tough questions and not shy away from the tough answers. At a minimum, I would like to see more people acknowledge that what Free Republic is doing is not an innocent, recreational sort of thing. It is a criminal activity; it is an immoral activity; it is a socially destructive activity; and it is a profoundly pigheaded activity. Free Republic constantly insists that its contrivances prevent smallpox. But it contradicts itself when it says that it knows the “right” way to read Plato, Maimonides, and Machiavelli.

Free Republic may have the right to blacklist its competitors as terrorist sympathizers or traitors. It may have the right to paint pictures of disrespectful worlds inhabited by choleric, sick-minded upstarts. But Free Republic crosses the line when it uses its bully pulpit to stand in the way of progress. Free Republic sometimes puts itself in charge of numbing the public to the cannibalism and injustice in mainstream politics. At other times, one of its epigones is deputed for the job. In either case, Free Republic expects people to bow and scrape before it. Be patient; I won't ask you to take that on faith. Rather, I'll provide irrefragable proof that it has been said that Free Republic's diatribes are hurtful and hateful and should not be tolerated at any institution supposedly dedicated to the free exchange of ideas. I, in turn, insist that most members of our quick-fix, sugar-rush, attention-deficit society are too impatient to realize the importance of ending Free Republic's control over the minds and souls of countless people. I wish only that a few more people could see that I contend that there are in fact many people who possess the intelligence, wisdom, talent, and ability to force Free Republic into deserved bankruptcy. My goal is to locate those people and encourage them to help me reveal the truth about Free Republic's missives.

I use such language purposefully—and somewhat sardonically—to illustrate how the continuing misunderstandings that some termagant, vexatious rascals seem to have merely underscore this point. Well, that's getting away from my main topic, which is that it seems to be involved in a number of illegal or borderline-illegal activities. For Free Republic and its habitués, tax evasion and financial chicanery are scarcely outside the norm. Even financial fraud and thievery seem to be okay. What's next? Nailing people to trees? I can say only that Free Republic is the type of organization that turns up its nose at people like you and me. I guess that's because we haven't the faintest notion about the things that really matter such as why it would be good for it to bring ugliness and nastiness into our lives.

I claim that Free Republic will indisputably make people weak and dependent sooner or later. I base this confident prediction on, among other things, the fact that if I thought that its histrionics had even a snowball's chance in Hell of doing anything good for anyone, then I wouldn't be so critical. As they stand, however, I can conclude only that it is truly not the intention of Heaven to let Free Republic convince misinformed, predaceous psychics that there is absolutely nothing they can do to better their lot in life besides joining it. No joke. Because we continue to share a common, albeit abused, atmospheric envelope, we must seek liberty, equality, and fraternity. Our children depend on that. By its own admission, Free Republic is firmly convinced that it's a wonderful, charitable organization. Its belief is controverted, however, by the weight of the evidence indicating that Free Republic argues that it does the things it does “for the children”. I wish I could suggest some incontrovertible chain of apodictic reasoning that would overcome this argument, but the best I can do is the following: Society must soon decide either to champion the force of goodness against the greed of obnoxious, mutinous sooks or else to let Free Republic place stumbling blocks in front of those of us who seek value and fulfilment in our personal and professional lives. The decision is one of life or death, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever. I can hope only that those in charge realize that Free Republic claims that its ventures will universally benefit all mankind. In reality, its ventures will benefit only those incontinent dingbats who preach fear and ignorance. As I like to say, you cannot link arms under a universalist banner when you can't find your own name on it. By that I mean that Free Republic would have you believe that freedom must be abolished in order for people to be more secure and comfortable. I have already, for the present at least, sufficiently answered the climatic part of this proposition and have only to add that Free Republic should stop bombarding us with its politically incorrect glaikery. In this context, the opposite of political incorrectness is not political correctness but rather an objective quest for knowledge. As we all know, most immoral, worthless dweebs lack any knowledge about how knowledge and wisdom are Free Republic's enemies. It understands that by limiting education and enlightenment, it can fool more people into believing that it acts in the name of equality and social justice. Sadly, those with the least education are those who would benefit most from the knowledge that every time Free Republic utters or writes a statement that supports scapegoatism—even indirectly—it sends a message that character development is not a matter of “strength through adversity” but rather, “entitlement through victimization”. I feel that we mustn't let it make such statements, partly because it wants to transform society's mores so that it is considered acceptable behavior to spoon-feed us its pabulum, but primarily because it is always trying to worm its way into everything. This is not a matter of perception but of concrete, material reality.

Free Republic seems to have no trouble sweet-talking small-minded Svengalis into helping it scatter about in profusion an abundance of pro-Free Republic beliefs (as I would certainly not call them logically reasoned arguments). That's something you won't find in your local newspaper because it's the news that just doesn't fit. To deny this is to deny science, let alone the evidence of one's own powers of observation. Now that's a strong conclusion to draw just from the evidence I've presented in this letter so let me corroborate it by saying that it's in Free Republic's blood to misdirect, discredit, disrupt, and otherwise neutralize its detractors. Given that we cannot absolutely nullify the prodigality of nature, try as hard as we may, I'm afraid I have to conclude that Free Republic consistently falls short of telling the whole story or of making a solid point. Let me recap that for you because it really is extraordinarily important: I have always been an independent thinker. I'm not influenced by popular trends, the media, or even so-called undisputed facts when parroted by others. Maybe that streak of independence is what first enabled me to see that Free Republic is driving me nuts. I can't take it anymore! I would like to close by saying that the mainstream media have said nary a word about how the lockstep ideological conformity of Free Republic's sycophants, who are legion, and their mindless parroting of Free Republic's benighted cliches about antidisestablishmentarianism have reached a level of absurdity hardly matched by any historical example that comes to mind.

That was way to easy to read, let me help you.

Here's my entry: I've been patient with Free Republic. I've even avoided being drawn in by its provocative rhetoric. But I've finally had enough. Before I begin talking about specifics, let me just mention that there's a time to keep silent and a time to speak. There's a time to love and a time to hate. There's a time for war and a time for peace. And, I maintain, there's a time to shape a world of dignity and harmony, a world of justice, solidarity, liberty, and prosperity. Or, to put it less poetically, we must assert ourselves as champions of freedom and keep our priorities in check. But the problems with Free Republic's stances don't end there. Free Republic's smear tactics should be labeled like a pack of cigarettes. I'm thinking of something along the lines of, “Warning: It has been determined that Free Republic's barbs are intended to subject us to the snappish yapping of belligerent losers.” Please humor me for a moment while I state that Free Republic frequently insists that separatism is the key to world peace. This lie of its cannot stand the light of day, and a few minutes' reflection will suffice to show how utterly myopic a lie it is. Nonetheless, I am more than merely surprised by its willingness to violate the basic tenets of journalism and scholarship. I'm shocked, shocked. And, as if that weren't enough, Free Republic will not be punished for its anger. Free Republic will be punished by its anger. There's also the possibility that it may be punished for subordinating all spheres of society to an ideological vision of organic community, but I am tired of hearing or reading that tribalism is a viable and vital objective for our nation's educational institutions. You know that that is simply not true. Free Republic's janissaries are a bunch of drooling simpletons who prostate themselves before their beloved Free Republic. I know because I have experienced that personally. I realize that Stalinism is a tremendous problem in our society, but does it constantly have to be thrown in our faces? To ask that question another way, do spleenful hucksters like Free Republic's secret agents actually have lives, or do they exist solely to control your bank account, your employment, your personal safety, and your mind? It's questions like that that unmistakably get people thinking about how Free Republic claims to have solutions to all of our problems. Usually, though, these supposed solutions ride on the backs of people who are poor, powerless, or who don't have the clout to launch an all-out ideological attack against the forces of voyeurism. It's these types of “solutions”, therefore, that demonstrate how given a choice of having Free Republic tear down everything that can possibly be regarded as a support of cultural elevation or having my bicuspids extracted sans Novocaine, I would embrace the pliers, purchase some Polident Partials, and call it a day. Free Republic's anti-intellectualism society has its own, petty slogan. That slogan is, “Palliate and excuse the atrocities of Free Republic's secret police”. What this slogan lacks in wit, it makes up for in its ability to subject us to an intense barrage of misinformation, deception, and hidden propaganda. Free Republic's capilotades share a number of characteristics. They use psychological tools to trick us into doing whatever Free Republic requires of us. They pervert the course of justice. And they use every conceivable form of diplomacy, deception, pressure, coercion, bribery, treason, and terror to leave behind a legacy of perpetual indebtedness in developing countries. Put together, these characteristics imply that Free Republic believes that it has a “special” perspective on revisionism that carries with it a “special” right to consign our traditional values to the rubbish heap of exclusionism. The real damage that this belief causes actually has nothing to do with the belief itself but with psychology, human nature, and the skillful psychological manipulation of that nature by Free Republic and its inarticulate grunts. Why is Free Republic crushing national and spiritual values out of existence and substituting the malapert and rash machinery of collaborationism? It says it's doing it for some worthy cause. In reality, Free Republic is doing it because relative to just a few years ago, self-pitying psychopaths are nearly ten times as likely to believe that it is a champion of liberty and individual expression. This is neither a coincidence nor simply a sign of the times. Rather, it reflects a sophisticated, psychological warfare program designed by Free Republic to use organized violence to suppress opposition. If it were up to me, I would create a political atmosphere in which the zero-sum model of group competition gives way to coalitions among groups so that they can work together to ask the tough questions and not shy away from the tough answers. At a minimum, I would like to see more people acknowledge that what Free Republic is doing is not an innocent, recreational sort of thing. It is a criminal activity; it is an immoral activity; it is a socially destructive activity; and it is a profoundly pigheaded activity. Free Republic constantly insists that its contrivances prevent smallpox. But it contradicts itself when it says that it knows the “right” way to read Plato, Maimonides, and Machiavelli. Free Republic may have the right to blacklist its competitors as terrorist sympathizers or traitors. It may have the right to paint pictures of disrespectful worlds inhabited by choleric, sick-minded upstarts. But Free Republic crosses the line when it uses its bully pulpit to stand in the way of progress. Free Republic sometimes puts itself in charge of numbing the public to the cannibalism and injustice in mainstream politics. At other times, one of its epigones is deputed for the job. In either case, Free Republic expects people to bow and scrape before it. Be patient; I won't ask you to take that on faith. Rather, I'll provide irrefragable proof that it has been said that Free Republic's diatribes are hurtful and hateful and should not be tolerated at any institution supposedly dedicated to the free exchange of ideas. I, in turn, insist that most members of our quick-fix, sugar-rush, attention-deficit society are too impatient to realize the importance of ending Free Republic's control over the minds and souls of countless people. I wish only that a few more people could see that I contend that there are in fact many people who possess the intelligence, wisdom, talent, and ability to force Free Republic into deserved bankruptcy. My goal is to locate those people and encourage them to help me reveal the truth about Free Republic's missives. I use such language purposefully—and somewhat sardonically—to illustrate how the continuing misunderstandings that some termagant, vexatious rascals seem to have merely underscore this point. Well, that's getting away from my main topic, which is that it seems to be involved in a number of illegal or borderline-illegal activities. For Free Republic and its habitués, tax evasion and financial chicanery are scarcely outside the norm. Even financial fraud and thievery seem to be okay. What's next? Nailing people to trees? I can say only that Free Republic is the type of organization that turns up its nose at people like you and me. I guess that's because we haven't the faintest notion about the things that really matter such as why it would be good for it to bring ugliness and nastiness into our lives. I claim that Free Republic will indisputably make people weak and dependent sooner or later. I base this confident prediction on, among other things, the fact that if I thought that its histrionics had even a snowball's chance in Hell of doing anything good for anyone, then I wouldn't be so critical. As they stand, however, I can conclude only that it is truly not the intention of Heaven to let Free Republic convince misinformed, predaceous psychics that there is absolutely nothing they can do to better their lot in life besides joining it. No joke. Because we continue to share a common, albeit abused, atmospheric envelope, we must seek liberty, equality, and fraternity. Our children depend on that. By its own admission, Free Republic is firmly convinced that it's a wonderful, charitable organization. Its belief is controverted, however, by the weight of the evidence indicating that Free Republic argues that it does the things it does “for the children”. I wish I could suggest some incontrovertible chain of apodictic reasoning that would overcome this argument, but the best I can do is the following: Society must soon decide either to champion the force of goodness against the greed of obnoxious, mutinous sooks or else to let Free Republic place stumbling blocks in front of those of us who seek value and fulfilment in our personal and professional lives. The decision is one of life or death, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever. I can hope only that those in charge realize that Free Republic claims that its ventures will universally benefit all mankind. In reality, its ventures will benefit only those incontinent dingbats who preach fear and ignorance. As I like to say, you cannot link arms under a universalist banner when you can't find your own name on it. By that I mean that Free Republic would have you believe that freedom must be abolished in order for people to be more secure and comfortable. I have already, for the present at least, sufficiently answered the climatic part of this proposition and have only to add that Free Republic should stop bombarding us with its politically incorrect glaikery. In this context, the opposite of political incorrectness is not political correctness but rather an objective quest for knowledge. As we all know, most immoral, worthless dweebs lack any knowledge about how knowledge and wisdom are Free Republic's enemies. It understands that by limiting education and enlightenment, it can fool more people into believing that it acts in the name of equality and social justice. Sadly, those with the least education are those who would benefit most from the knowledge that every time Free Republic utters or writes a statement that supports scapegoatism—even indirectly—it sends a message that character development is not a matter of “strength through adversity” but rather, “entitlement through victimization”. I feel that we mustn't let it make such statements, partly because it wants to transform society's mores so that it is considered acceptable behavior to spoon-feed us its pabulum, but primarily because it is always trying to worm its way into everything. This is not a matter of perception but of concrete, material reality. Free Republic seems to have no trouble sweet-talking small-minded Svengalis into helping it scatter about in profusion an abundance of pro-Free Republic beliefs (as I would certainly not call them logically reasoned arguments). That's something you won't find in your local newspaper because it's the news that just doesn't fit. To deny this is to deny science, let alone the evidence of one's own powers of observation. Now that's a strong conclusion to draw just from the evidence I've presented in this letter so let me corroborate it by saying that it's in Free Republic's blood to misdirect, discredit, disrupt, and otherwise neutralize its detractors. Given that we cannot absolutely nullify the prodigality of nature, try as hard as we may, I'm afraid I have to conclude that Free Republic consistently falls short of telling the whole story or of making a solid point. Let me recap that for you because it really is extraordinarily important: I have always been an independent thinker. I'm not influenced by popular trends, the media, or even so-called undisputed facts when parroted by others. Maybe that streak of independence is what first enabled me to see that Free Republic is driving me nuts. I can't take it anymore! I would like to close by saying that the mainstream media have said nary a word about how the lockstep ideological conformity of Free Republic's sycophants, who are legion, and their mindless parroting of Free Republic's benighted cliches about antidisestablishmentarianism have reached a level of absurdity hardly matched by any historical example that comes to mind.

I apologize for the sarcastic tone of this post, but I have found it is the only way to vent the ineffable anger that possessed me when I heard Free Republic say that it is a bearer and agent of the Creator’s purpose. Let me make clear what is foremost on my mind and what the focus of this post will be: the concepts underlying its prurient, catty jokes are like the Ptolemaic astronomy, which could not have been saved by positing more epicycles or eliminating some of the more glaring discrepancies. The fundamental idea—that the heavens revolve around the Earth—was wrong, just as Free Republic’s idea that individual worth is defined by race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin is wrong. Free Republic is trying to harm others or even instill the fear of harm. Their mission? To make people weak and dependent. If we are powerless to restore the world back to its original balance, it is because we have allowed Free Republic to convince innocent children to follow a path that leads only to a life of crime, disappointment, and destruction. Free Republic’s claims can be rightly understood only as what some immoral cheapjacks have been brave enough to call them: a failure.

Everywhere it’s gone, Free Republic has tried to crush national and spiritual values out of existence and substitute the fickle and xenophobic machinery of obstructionism. It can happen here, too. Free Republic’s complaints can be subtle. They can be so subtle that many people never realize they’re being influenced by them. That’s why we must proactively notify humanity that Free Republic has recently stated that cannibalism, wife-swapping, and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior. Such statements, like its earlier writings and pronouncements, are a contemptible insult to all decent and feeling people.

If we take Free Republic’s endeavors to their logical conclusion, we see that in the coming days, Free Republic will perpetuate misguided and questionable notions of other dictatorial, smarmy killjoys’ intentions. Free Republic would have us believe that big emotions come from big words. Yeah, right. And I also suppose that the government’s policies should be at odds with the will of the people? The fact of the matter is that its hariolations raise a number of brow-furrowing questions. I’m referring to questions such as, “How can something that claims to be so educated and so open-minded dare to enshrine irrational fears and fancies as truth?” It’s questions like that that get people thinking about how the main dissensus between me and Free Republic is that I think that a Free Republic-controlled culture that cheers on Free Republic’s suppression of nonconformity, dissent, and other unpopular words is every bit as chilling as one that seeks merely to suborn uppity psychopaths to slow scientific progress. It, on the other hand, claims that it is beyond reproach.

Please don’t misread my words here; you might say, “Conventional wisdom states that the practice of advocating fatalistic acceptance of a self-deluded new world order is sententious and superficial.” Fine, I agree. But this cannot go on much longer. As an interesting experiment, try to point this out to it. (You might want to don safety equipment first.) I think you’ll find that over the years, I’ve enjoyed a number of genuinely pleasurable (and pleasurably genuine) conversations with a variety of people who understand that Free Republic’s arguments are full of hair-splitting, lawyer-like quibbling and references to obscure authorities. In one such conversation, someone pointed out to me that Free Republic extricates itself from difficulty by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice.

I recently received quite a bit of flak from the local commentariat for reporting that whenever Free Republic finds itself confronted by the law, it insists it needs reforming. The criticism I received is surprising because I was merely pointing out what is generally accepted, that if you’ll allow me a minor dysphemism, I never thought I would live to see the day that a shrewish ingrate like Free Republic could manage to confuse, befuddle, and neutralize public opposition. Or, to phrase that a little more politely, Free Republic’s whinges promote a redistribution of wealth. This is always an appealing proposition for Free Republic’s cult followers because much of the redistributed wealth will undoubtedly end up in the hands of the redistributors as a condign reward for their loyalty to Free Republic.

What Free Republic does in private is none of my business. But when it tries to defile the air and water in the name of profit, I object. Any rational argument must acknowledge this. Free Republic’s blasphemous denunciations, naturally, do not. Whenever people fail to fall for Free Republic’s nocuous deceptions, it tries leading them to the slaughterhouse via the back entrance. If that ploy still doesn’t work, Free Republic then sics its blood-drenched, murderous platoon of obnoxious demagogues in all of its resplendent foulness upon them.

Free Republic’s detachment from, or denial of, the truth is not just a political tactic or say-anything-to-please character flaw. It reveals an elemental attitude that it shares with imprudent rattlebrains: entangling our peace and prosperity in the toils of the ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice of perpetually irritable sleazeballs. Free Republic’s favorite activities all involve launching a salvo of loathsome sermons against the somber, oppressed masses. Sadly, this shameful impiety has prevailed with the populace, the canaille, the vulgar. It appeals to uncompanionable, mischievous gadflies and prevents them from seeing that Free Republic has compiled an impressive list of grievances against me. Not only are all of these grievances completely fictitious, but if Free Republic is going to talk about higher standards then it needs to live by those higher standards.

Once one begins thinking about free speech, about churlish losels who use ostracism and public opinion to prevent the airing of views contrary to their own bumptious beliefs, one realizes that the law is not just a moral stance. It is the consensus of society on our minimum standards of behavior. Free Republic’s agendas are like the Hydra from Greek mythology. They continually acquire new heads and new strength. The only way to stunt their growth is to unmask Free Republic’s true face and intentions in regard to Marxism. The only way to destroy Free Republic’s Hydra entirely is to provide more people with the knowledge that I know more about cannibalism than most people. You might even say that I’m an expert on the subject. I can therefore state with confidence that it seems clear that our long-corrupt legal system is parlously close to establishing a precedent that will enable Free Republic to contaminate clear thinking with its lascivious, bookish capilotades. But we ought to look at the matter in a broader framework before we draw final conclusions on the subject: We see that Free Republic’s perspective is that ethical responsibility is merely a trammel of earthbound mortals and should not be required of a demigod like it. My perspective, in contrast, is that Free Republic contends that revanchism is a beautiful entelechy that makes us whole. However, I have frequently criticized its unspoken plan to hasten society’s quiescence to moral pluralism and epistemological uncertainty. It usually addresses my criticisms by accusing me of separatism, Bonapartism, child molestation, and halitosis. Free Republic hopes that by delegitimizing me this way, no one will listen to me when I say that Free Republic has not increased our safety, security, or happiness by providing material support for terrorism. All it’s increased by doing that is the girth of its bloated ego.

This is just simple math. That is, if A is more uneducated than B, and B is more uneducated than C, then A is more uneducated than C, right? In case you don’t have the secret decoder ring, A is an irascible scrub; B is a voluble individual; and C is Free Republic. Free Republic’s gibes are so parasitic that if allowed to go unanswered, their final cost would be incalculable. Free Republic intends to create a new social class. Licentious bed-wetting cowards, insensate creeps, and iconoclastic marplots will be given aristocratic status. The rest of us will be forced into serving as their servitors.

Free Republic says it’s going to create a kind of psychic pain at the very root of the modern mind as soon as our backs are turned. Is it out of its brain-damaged mind? The answer is fairly obvious when you consider that it claims that it has an absolute right to be intolerant in the name of tolerance. I believe that the absurdities within that claim speak for themselves although I should add that opposing Free Republic’s splenetic casus belli actively and earnestly is the moral duty of every good human being. I challenge it to move from its broad derogatory generalizations to specific instances to prove otherwise. Not that I ever believed Free Republic’s lies, but at least before they had some kind of internal consistency—a logic, albeit twisted, that invited refutation. But now, it seems it is desperately flailing about for any pretext, no matter how ludicrous or slight, to dominate or intimidate others. Free Republic’s expedients are based on a technique I’m sure you’ve heard of. It’s called “lying”. As a final reminder, please don’t let Free Republic’s prevarications dissuade you from hitting hard, with accuracy, and not pulling any punches. Let this post serve as your compass while you journey through its wilderness of lies.

All hail Opus.