You said, in part:
“Don’t start censoring FR to please the libs! It will just encourage the left...
Don’t allow the LEFT to dictate the “RULES” of FREE SPEACH...”
My response:
I am not letting the left dictate my speech. This is a conservative forum, and we ourselves adhere to certain standards.
I associate with conservatives largely because I believe they adhere to certain values which I hold dear. There are compelling reasons I affiliate with Free Republic and not DU.
Those values, and common decency, dictate my speech, not the left. Common decency requires that all children of politicians should be off limits. They do not become acceptable targets just because some children of our own have been attacked.
We do not need to adopt the hateful gutter tactics of the libs to make our point. We make our point when, by actions and speech, we make it clear we hold to higher standards.
Then allow FR mods or fellow Freepers say what is “Allowed”.....Chastise people or remove threads that are deamed inappropriate...But this is ALL about the libs stiring up problems where there are none.
I don’t want FR to become like hate filled blogs of the left, but we should decide what is decent not them. I have read the worst most disgusting threads and posts at places like DU...they don’t care as long as it’s about Bush or Sarah Palin or even her children. I don’t remember articles critisizing their speach. They didn’t admonish the poster for saying these things....
FR should admonish posters who say things that are beyond the pale. However we shouldn’t just do it because the LEFT has written an article about something said on FR. Allow us to Regulate ourselves.....We can do a fine job of upholding the “Community” standards. I don’t want to become like DU but I don’t want to put limits on what you can say based on a libs interpretation of what was said on the board. They will always paint conservatives as Racist Bigots and Homophobes..NO MATTER WHAT!
Roger that!
I hear what you are saying. We fight like gentlemen, knowing god is on our side and that we are always in the right.
History, however, says that the one who leaves the most scorched ground will emerge the victor.
Its hard to be a gentleman when the liberals seem to be burning the country down around our ears.