The hysteria that has occured on FR the last week may take years to overcome.
Nobody will take this place seriously. It's not that people are siding with the parents, it's the death threats, conspiracy theories, calls to disregard the constitution.
I can't take that seriously, why should any dispassionate observer?
I know. I know. (sigh)
Absolutely agree. Even the Admin Moderator starting pulling threads he disagrees with that supported Michael Schiavo. This censorship was stunning - In all my years of posting, I've never known the Admin Moderator to pull threads simply because he disageed with the view - not even posts containing writings of Michael Moore, Maureen Dowd or Ted Kennedy got yanked.
How do I know this? Because it was my articles he was pulling.
It will be many years, if ever, before the Free Republic lives this shame down.