[Wolfstar]

I asked you directly, why are you here if you felt the owner was a scam artist?

The only person using the word "scam" in our conversation is you.

Free Republic is set up as an LLC. While I certainly am no lawyer, my general sense is that corporations have obligations to account for their finances. As DJ MacPuppyDog keeps saying, a budget has been made public. However a budget is not accounting. Not being a lawyer, I don't know what state and federal laws require as regards disclosure. So let me put it this way. For $376,000 a year in donations, it certainly is not too much to ask JR to ensure that his donor base is treated with courtesy and respect -- even if some happen to hold opinions that differ from his opinions and those of his gleeful zottgeist crowd. And when those new servers finally do make an appearance, a thread proudly showing off photos of them would be a nice touch.

[exit82]

Don't you know what a fraud FR has become? $94,000 a calendar quarter for a website?! That's $376,000 a year. I have worked in the information systems field since 1988, so know whereof I speak.

That's directly from your post 1165, Wolfstar. You think this site is a fraud, and that the owner is committing a fraud.

Now with this last post, you are backtracking, bigtime. Now, all you want is an "accounting".

I am not buying what you are selling.

So why is it that you are on a website that you think is a fraud?

[caww]

not too much to ask JR to ensure that his donor base is treated with courtesy and respect

Respect is 'earned' not bought.... Mr. Robinson is not for sale......some education seems to be needed what a donation is:

Donation....an act or instance of presenting something as a gift, grant, or contribution. .... given freely, for no recompense. 'Donations' are given without return consideration.... This lack of return consideration means that, in common law, an agreement to make a donation is an "imperfect contract void for want of consideration'.