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This is just a drill: Thanks to John McCain, Free Republic will shut down tomorrow at high noon for
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Posted on 03/23/2006 8:03:45 PM PST by Jim Robinson

Edited on 03/24/2006 11:31:56 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

Now hear this:

Thanks to John McCain, Free Republic will shut down tomorrow at high noon for 30 days. No non government approved electioneering messages may be transmitted over the internet for the 30 days immediately preceding a primary election.

That is all.


The above exercise was just a drill. But if John McCain has his way with his proposed rules for regulating political free speech on the internet, this is how we will be forced to operate in the coming election cycle and all election cycles in the future until we can get the unconstitutional McCain-Feingold act repealed.

Carthago delenda est


I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!



If the thought of losing your right to express yourself online makes you mad, it is high time you let Senator John McCain know how you feel.

McCain, John - (R - AZ)
(202) 224-2235

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To: Jim Robinson

Well put.

Though, I fear, we are a few decades too late.

But we must do all we can do.


201 posted on 03/23/2006 8:32:43 PM PST by Quix (GOD IS LOVE and full of mercy HE IS ALSO JUST & fiercely HOLY. Groups choosing death can reap it)
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To: Jim Robinson
What about DU and all the other blogs, are they getting shut down too?

This better be a JOKE!

202 posted on 03/23/2006 8:33:01 PM PST by blondee123
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To: Antoninus
Are any of you other frogs noticing that the water is getting a tad hot?

Old Marxist saying -- "The worse, the better." That is, it takes anguish to motivate people for revolution.

That explains why democrats continually try to wreck the economy and destroy the middle class through subversive cultural forces, in hopes that people will revolt against capitalism.

Well, those same communists did not anticipate that the ruination of our country could just as easily - by way of fact and truth - expose their own evil asses for judgement by the American people. As far as Hollywood, taxation, and sexual perversion go, indeed "the worse the better" ... for us.

203 posted on 03/23/2006 8:33:05 PM PST by SteveMcKing
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To: pbrown

Where have you been? The courts have ruled that document unconstitutional .


204 posted on 03/23/2006 8:33:10 PM PST by Lurking in Kansas (Nothing witty here… move on.)
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To: Spanaway Lori

Darn, I tried to ping you Lori, and I spelled your name wrong. I was so frustrated, I couldn't think.


205 posted on 03/23/2006 8:33:12 PM PST by del4hope (It is time to dust off US sedition and treason laws.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Guess I'll turn in my guns tomorrow. We're whipped.


206 posted on 03/23/2006 8:33:21 PM PST by Mr Cobol (Spring has sprung, grass hasn't riz, where that Global Warming is?)
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To: Revolting cat!

LOL those jackasses would not know what to do if we all took over their site tomorrow...it would almost be worth it.


207 posted on 03/23/2006 8:33:40 PM PST by txroadkill
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To: Lurking in Kansas
You ain't seen nothing, kid. Wait until election night. LOL, every time you refresh, another page gets added.

Not if McCain has his way.

208 posted on 03/23/2006 8:33:46 PM PST by SlowBoat407 (The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
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To: pbrown

P.S. Especially in schools!!


209 posted on 03/23/2006 8:34:07 PM PST by Lurking in Kansas (Nothing witty here… move on.)
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To: Indy Pendance

Good God this is real...?


210 posted on 03/23/2006 8:34:14 PM PST by txhurl (just take me to the rubber room noa)
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To: manic4organic
Rat bastidge. He needs his RINO horn sawed off.

and inserted

211 posted on 03/23/2006 8:34:22 PM PST by Quix (GOD IS LOVE and full of mercy HE IS ALSO JUST & fiercely HOLY. Groups choosing death can reap it)
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To: del4hope

LOL..... It was pretty hard to miss this one!


212 posted on 03/23/2006 8:34:42 PM PST by Just Lori (To everything, there is a season.........Ecclesiastes, 3:1-8)
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To: Paul C. Jesup

"Because now is the time for you to either do what you preach and walk the walk, or you hide like a coward and shutdown Free Republic.

I have my own plans in fixing this nation, I hope they will not include violence, but I don't need FR to do them."


That is just completely uncalled for.


213 posted on 03/23/2006 8:34:46 PM PST by gondramB (Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Goodnight my doctors have given me 5 days to live see you on the other side.sarc
214 posted on 03/23/2006 8:35:02 PM PST by boomop1 (there you go again)
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To: Jim Robinson

Cool - 30 days...........GREAT.

That gives me plenty of time to finish getting seeds started, my berry bushes planted, my house sided and roofed........and be able to ignore the moonbats that permeate this site.

See ya April 23rd.....maybe.


215 posted on 03/23/2006 8:35:10 PM PST by Gabz (Smokers are the beta version)
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To: All

Does anyone know if the McCainiphiles have a ping-list? That sorry crew needs to see this...


216 posted on 03/23/2006 8:35:35 PM PST by JamesP81
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To: Jim Robinson

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT??????????????????


217 posted on 03/23/2006 8:35:38 PM PST by nopardons
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To: gondramB
That is just completely uncalled for.

Drivel from an idiot is all.

218 posted on 03/23/2006 8:36:01 PM PST by Just Lori (To everything, there is a season.........Ecclesiastes, 3:1-8)
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To: All

From http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602097/posts :

Traditional media organizations have come out in favor of increased regulation. "It is imperative," wrote the New York Times in an editorial, "that the courageous lawmakers who supported the McCain-Feingold reform law four years ago stand together against making the Internet a cornucopia of political corruption."

Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, countered, "A better argument for the New York Times would be to tell America that they really want to end political conversation on the Internet to resurrect their power over political commentary."


219 posted on 03/23/2006 8:36:02 PM PST by Zechariah_8_13 (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Read it and weep.

1 posted on 03/23/2006 8:03:50 PM PST by Jim Robinson [ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]

bump

220 posted on 03/23/2006 8:36:06 PM PST by bobbyd (Damn, I've been tagged.....)
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