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This is just a drill: Thanks to John McCain, Free Republic will shut down tomorrow at high noon for
Free Republic ^

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coming election cycle and all election cycles in the future until we can get the unconstitutional McCain-Feingold act repealed.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

Washington, DC
241 Russell Senate Ofc. Bldg.
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2235
Fax: (202) 228-2862


Phoenix
5353 North 16th Street
Suite 105
Phoenix, Arizona 85016
Phone: (602) 952-2410
Fax: (602) 952-8702

Tempe
4703 S. Lakeshore Drive
Suite 1
Tempe, Arizona 85282
Phone: (480) 897-6289
Fax: (480) 897-8389

Tucson
407 W. Congress Street
Suite 103
Tucson, Arizona 85701
Phone: (520) 670-6334
Fax: (520) 670-6637


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

Other contact #'s
US capitol toll free -

1-877-762-8762
Senate Offices:

Cloak Room Democratic: (202) 224-4691
Cloak Room Republican: (202) 224-6191

(From post #732 by bd476)


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To: bd476

Thank you bd476 for the ping/warning.


461 posted on 03/23/2006 9:19:43 PM PST by Cindy
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To: redhead
Here's a recipe:

Cooked Goose

1 RINO, aka "Goose"
1 Infringement on our right to free speech
50,000 angry FReepers
Computers, phones, faxes

Combine ingredients and shake well. Freepers call, e-mail, fax, and visit John McCain personally. KEEP THE HEAT ON THE GOOSE at a red-hot intensity until said Goose is "done", our rights are fully restored, and his career is totally finished.

462 posted on 03/23/2006 9:19:48 PM PST by I'm ALL Right!
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To: Jim Robinson

Spoken like a true patriot. I'm proud to be here.


463 posted on 03/23/2006 9:19:57 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie, because he didn't bake one.)
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To: Victoria Delsoul

Interesting. I could give you mine...but seeing as how I'm still a minor (I'm not even 18 yet, if you can believe it), house rules dictate no sharing of personal info.

Rules are rules. Father knows best, after all. :)


464 posted on 03/23/2006 9:20:00 PM PST by Ultra Sonic 007 (Hitler and Stalin have nothing on Abortion)
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To: Victoria Delsoul

Just what I need at such a trying moment...


465 posted on 03/23/2006 9:20:13 PM PST by JamesP81
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To: onyx; dighton; lainie; Darksheare; Quilla; SubMareener; Esther Ruth; kimchi lover; sf4dubya; ...
Repeat. This is not a drill.

Twelve O'Clock High


General Frank Savage: [to the bomber crews] Well, I can tell you right now what the problem is. I saw it in your faces last night. I can see it there now. You've been looking at a lot of air lately, and you feel you need a rest.

In short, you're feeling sorry for yourselves. Now I don't have a lot of patience with this "What are we fighting for?" stuff. We're in a war... a shooting war. We've got to fight...

General Frank Savage: Rights, Gately? You've got a right to explain to General Pritchard cowardice, desertion of your post, a yellow streak a mile wide! And maybe he can explain it to your father so that they'll both be proud of you! You can tell him right now.

Brig. Gen. Frank Savage: I take it you don't really care about the part you had in breaking one of the best men you'll ever know. Add to it that as Air Exec you were automatically in command the moment Colonel Davenport left - and you met that responsibility exactly as you met his need: you ran out on it. You left the station to get drunk.

Gately, as far as I'm concerned, you're yellow. A traitor to yourself, to this group, to the uniform you wear. It would be the easiest course for me to transfer you out, to saddle some unsuspecting guy with a deadbeat.

Maybe you think that's what you're gonna get out of this, a free ride in some combat unit. But I'm not gonna pass the buck. I'm gonna keep you right here. I hate a man like you so much that I'm gonna get your head down in the mud and tramp on it. I'm gonna make you wish you'd never been born.

Lt. Col. Ben R. Gately: If that's all, sir...

Brig. Gen. Frank Savage: I'm just getting started. You're gonna stay right here and get a bellyful of flying. You're gonna make every mission. You're not air exec anymore. You're just an airplane commander. And I want you to paint this name on the nose of your ship: Leper Colony. Because in it you're gonna get every deadbeat in the outfit.

Every man with a penchant for head colds. If there's a bombardier who can't hit his plate with his fork, you get him. If there's a navigator who can't find the men's room, you get him. Because you rate him.

Maj. Gen. Ben Pritchard: There's a hole in the dike, Frank, and I'm scared stiff... Every theater commander is screaming for new planes and equipment... I guess I don't have to tell you what's coming, Frank. I'm gonna have to ask you to take nice young boys and fly them until they can't stand it, then to take them out, put' em back in and fly them again. We've got to try to find out just what a maximum effort is... No squawks?

General Frank Savage: When you pull a B-17 out of a formation you reduce the defensive power of the group by ten guns.

General Frank Savage: The one thing which is never expendable is your obligation to this group.


466 posted on 03/23/2006 9:20:21 PM PST by bd476
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To: Philistone
Don't know if I can take Texas winning both the BCS AND March Madness though!

Ain't it cool.

467 posted on 03/23/2006 9:20:41 PM PST by txhurl (just take me to the rubber room now)
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To: Quix

...bwitch Shrillery Antoinette de Fosterizer de Marx de Machiavelli de Stalin . . . de Sade

LOL


468 posted on 03/23/2006 9:20:56 PM PST by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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To: Cindy

Hi Cindy. Welcome to the seething mob. Light your torch and sharpen your pitchfork - there's a monster in the castle!


469 posted on 03/23/2006 9:20:59 PM PST by SlowBoat407 (The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
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To: Wormwood
"President's ability to veto. Oh...wait.."

I now totally dislike him for that. He joins the ranks of Bill Clinton in my book.

470 posted on 03/23/2006 9:21:09 PM PST by KoRn
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

LOL!! Okie dokie.


471 posted on 03/23/2006 9:21:37 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul
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To: Victoria Delsoul

Oh, cool. ;-)


472 posted on 03/23/2006 9:22:13 PM PST by Alberta's Child
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To: billbears; F16Fighter
Interesting the complaints about McCain. For some reason I remember another Republican actually signing this bill into law.

Yep, but the groupies would far prefer to.....


473 posted on 03/23/2006 9:22:20 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Jim Robinson

All joking aside, what's this do for DU, etc.?


474 posted on 03/23/2006 9:22:28 PM PST by umgud
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To: Jim Robinson
I'm not going anywhere and not doing anything special. No offshore servers or napster style software for FR. When the time comes, we keep on posting. Harder and louder than ever. This battle has to go to the Supreme Court. I don't even want the blogger exemption to pass. The unconstitutional McCain-Feingold must be struck down in its entirety!! It's all or nothing.

Sound the whistle on teh pwnz0r train. WewT wEWt!!!!

475 posted on 03/23/2006 9:22:31 PM PST by Texaggie79 (Did I just say that?)
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To: Txsleuth

I'm only about 6 pages behind...maybe 10 now.
maybe by noon tomorrow I'll be caught up.

By then I might not be allowed to say anything, freedom is great do you know where I can find some?


476 posted on 03/23/2006 9:22:32 PM PST by me-here
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To: LK44-40

I sure would like to see some serious backup sites out of country. I realize the NWO powers that be could snap that cord in a flash. But the odds are that having 2-3 out of country backup sites would give us at least some added months or more when push comes to shove.


477 posted on 03/23/2006 9:22:37 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: I'm ALL Right!

You are ALL RIGHT!!!!!!


478 posted on 03/23/2006 9:22:43 PM PST by del4hope (It is time to dust off US sedition and treason laws.)
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To: 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; annalex; ...


479 posted on 03/23/2006 9:22:49 PM PST by Coleus (What were Ted Kennedy & his nephew doing on Good Friday, 1991? Getting drunk and raping women)
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To: Victoria Delsoul

Victoria, I think we need to give McCain that number!


480 posted on 03/23/2006 9:23:03 PM PST by SlowBoat407 (The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
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