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J’Accuse
lewrockwell.com ^ | December 24, 2001 | Michael Peirce

Posted on 12/26/2001 6:34:07 AM PST by tberry

J’Accuse

by Michael Peirce

There has been a lot of criticism of LewRockwell.com on FreeRepublic, an ostensibly conservative discussion site. Much good comes out of that site, including excellent coverage of the latest war. Patriotism is considered de rigueur there and many of those who post are quite conversant with the constitution.

Others have never heard of it. LRC is referred to by some Freepers as a "blame America first" site. They are correct in supposing that LRC writers including myself are not gushing over the Republican Party. It is flawed thinking however, to suppose that we are by default, supporters of the left and are not patriotic.

I’m tired of taking this on the chin, and for several reasons. First, I was myself fighting communists when many of these guys were potty training. I’ve seen Communism up close and personal – with me it’s not just dislike of a political system – it’s hatred for a devilish secular heresy and yes, I believe this heresy, this dreadful murderous communism has come to America.

Giving a blank check to government is the quickest way to find ourselves under the shadow of the gulag and that won’t be pretty. I base this conclusion on a consistent pattern of government support for policies that harm America.

So I’m firing back with an accusation or two of my own and for reasons that should be obvious I chose to title this after the famous case from the end of the nineteenth century where the French government protected itself by blaming an innocent man for an act of treason committed by another man, a man who was in government. They were afraid it would make the government look bad. What could be worse?

That innocent man, Alfred Dreyfus, was falsely accused of treason, and wrongly convicted and sent to Devil’s Island. A guilty man went free because of his support for a corrupt government. A writer named Emile Zola made this a cause celebre when he wrote J’Accuse , an indictment of the government – ultimately Dreyfus was released, but not before Zola was accused of libel and spent ten years in exile. Justice was not the issue – Zola had dared to question the government and government had chosen Dreyfus as a scapegoat which was to have been the end of the story in their minds .

Lets consider the issues and use the facts to consider if government deserves our unswerving support.

Government most certainly did not make America great. We are, or were, great because of what we as Americans did, what we built and produced, and what we believed. We as a people were fairly devout and honored God, family and country. We worked hard and earned money that we kept for our own families. When the government clinched its fist against the Southern states there was a fringe benefit – the income tax. American no longer had control over their own finances. World War I, that least necessary of wars, sealed the tax in gold and FDR brought us the glory of income tax withholding. Nixon took us off the gold standard without so much as a "by your leave." Are we truly free when these people can take our money and use it to finance an agenda of which we do not approve? Is it unpatriotic to state the facts?

At this point in time we are in a bad recession and a war simultaneously – Yet this recession would be over if government would stop stealing our income, and that the war would be over if we would start hitting the real targets. We are not living the dream the founders had for us – it has turned to a nightmare.

I’m supposed to unconditionally support the government whose school system teaches about homosexual perversion as natural but declines to teach American history. I didn’t make this up – it’s your government folks – I start complaining when you question my patriotism because I don’t support this kind of nonsense.

Thanks to Planned Parenthood, NOW, and other extremist hate groups, our society, encouraged by government muscle, slaughters over a million babies a year. Our schools have drugged over half, yes that’s half, of the male children that attend. The teacher’s unions, who just happen to own the Democratic Party, are a treasonous cultural Marxist organization and we have surrendered our children to their tender care.

We are often reminded that it is remiss to criticize government in time of war. What has government done with it’s freedom to strike at will?

In the Persian Gulf War we had the spectacle of US troops replacing the gold faucets on the Kuwaiti Royal Family’s bath tub while acting as security guards for George Bush I and his oil buddies but where was the threat to American security?

They lured the Kurdish resistance to Sadaam Hussein out in to the open with calls from Bush to "rise up against the tyrant." Bush then allowed Sadaam to slaughter them with his gunship helicopters. Meantime, we’re flying operations Iraq for violating the no-fly zone and have kept it up for ten years. It is just me? Can’t you see this is not only wrong but downright stupid?

Next stop Serbia where Christians were bombed to protect Islamic terrorists and drug dealers – people whom the government has characterized as our enemies and enemies of freedom it self. We still have soldiers in Yugoslavia protecting these bums as they purge Kosovo of Serbians – even though we supposedly went there originally because of the horrors of ethnic cleansing! All this murder and then it turns out there was no holocaust, no rape camps – it was all propaganda. I’m unpatriotic because I don’t fall for these shameful lies?

Our government has been playing patty cake with these terrorists for years. As of three months before nine one one they sent hundreds of millions of our money to the Taleban and have yet to be called on it. They are now bombing the heck out of that same Taleban without comment on the former support extended to them. It’s unpatriotic we’re told, to bring that up.

We at lewRockwell.com have never suggested that the perpetrators of nine one one should get anything but grief. Somehow though, I keep asking myself what bombing Kabul did to further that endeavor? We did after all know about the camps and caves where the Al Qaeda organization could be found. Isn’t the shortest distance between two points a straight line? Not here in never never land.

According to WorldNetDaily.com our willingness to placate our "ally" Pakistan may have allowed bin Laden to escape with hundreds if not thousands of his terrorist gangsters. We heard on TV that Pakistan pulled out it’s own nationals who were fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan while the US unilaterally ceased fire. That’s weird enough for one war but wait there’s more: Al Qaeda may have taken full advantage of this cease fire to get out of Dodge but I’ll let you judge how true this is .

Our one "honest" politician, John McCain, explained on CNN that we had to fight expand the terror war and attack Sadaam Hussein or he would harm Israel. Excuse me, but since when is Israel a part of the United States?

I for one have supported Israel for a long time and that time is about over. Allies that involve us in constant warfare, such as England and Israel, are classic examples of silly Americans propping up socialist countries who want nothing more than to have us under their thumb. Their own cultures live on a thin edge since their socialist systems do not work without somebody to prop them up. Do you like supplying the cash and the shooters for a bunch of socialists? I don’t like it – not even a little bit.

We know with absolute surety that the WTC was taken down by Muslim extremists, mostly Saudis. Yet the "evidence" tape so widely touted by the government turns out to have been "doctored" to avoid embarrassing our Saudi "friends." They are not my friends so whom can they be talking about? And why are the thugs at the airport shaking down granny when they know damn well that seventy five year old white women have no terrorist connections?

Meantime, back at Propaganda Central we are deluged with pro-Muslim nonsense and horrified by having Ramadan celebrated at the White House. Did they ask you if we wanted to become a "multi-cultural" country or did they just decide unilaterally to destroy that nasty old Western European Christian heritage? A heritage by the way that has provided a safety net for minorities for several centuries.

Worldwide, where there are a lot of Muslims there is war and social disorder. And I wonder every day why my government has brought six million of them here to my country, where they are more apt to water down our existing culture than assimilate.

How about government support for the UN? Do the right wing conservatives who are clapping their hands each time new "smart" bomb film is released to the networks wonder why the government is selling our national sovereignty down the tubes to that bunch of clowns in their Halloween costumes? Our government pays most of the bills for an organization that wishes to destroy our sovereignty, and uses our money to do it.

Have you wondered why this government which you claim it is treason to oppose, has failed to defend your borders against one of the largest mass migrations in history? Or do you like having eight million illegal aliens living next door to you?

Do you wonder why George Bush has refused to investigate the crimes of the most despicable criminal to ever hold office, his predecessor?

The reason folks, is simple. The Republicans are up to their necks in it. It’s not about some individual – it is the apparatus. We have a huge government system staffed by people who have an agenda other than ours.

The Constitutional Republic has been stolen out from under us, and much of this conservative posturing is based on wishful thinking. I understand all too well how good it would feel to believe in the Republic again but pretending we are still the America of old is a form of denial. If we want America back we have a lot of work to do and we need to start thinking straight.

I accuse the American conservative movement of capitulating to the neo-cons and giving a despotic government a free pass to give our constitution the coup de grace and create the warfare state they have been longing for. Israel’s cause is now our cause – even though several hundred Israeli intelligence operatives are still being detained in the wake of the WTC attack – some of them arrested before 911 and some immediately after. Here is a link http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html.

So let me return to FreeRepublic.com and note that virtually every fact I’ve stated here has been stated there. Yet for some at least of the Freepers, there is a serious disconnect somewhere between getting the information and processing it. Some of those folks, and many conservatives nationwide, fail to draw the conclusions that are supported by the facts. We can not trust this government, we should not trust them, and we are running out of time where that will matter because there will be no recourse.

These same folks fuss about gun control – do they think Sadaam Hussein is the one imposing that upon us? Perhaps ATF is part of the "elite" Republican Guard about whom we once heard so much. Or was it those nasty Chinese? Did Osama Bin Laden frame an American citizen for a murder he did not commit – or was that the FBI?

That same FBI which conservatives wish to empower to work in even more secrecy is the one that did that. This violates common sense – it is down right pathological that any one could support those people.

I accuse American conservatives of shortsightedness, and of a lazy man’s approach to patriotism. Some of you seem to view the culture war as the media against us and our protector, George Bush. I should think by now you’d have worked through the connection between government and media. They share an agenda, they are implementing it and we are straining at gnats while swallowing some mighty big camels.

I accuse American conservatives of taking the easy way out – it’s fun to shout "Rah Rah" when the terrorists get a bomb on their heads – I like it myself. But to pretend that this government should get our unequivocal support is a dangerous fantasy. Just ask your child if he is allowed to mention the "C" word in his government school. You know – "Christmas?" Chances are he is not. That wasn’t some foreign aggressor who foisted the cultural Marxist agenda on our taxpayer-supported schools. Who is the real "enemy of freedom itself," if not those who are destroying it systematically?

I accuse Southern American conservatives of tolerating disrespect for your ancestors and your heritage, collaboration with a wicked and heathen occupier and abandoning your God given task of being the conscience of this Republic. If I am wrong – then explain to me why the flag of the Confederacy no longer flies in America? There was a time when even Northerners stood up for the flag, which as a shared memory had helped re-unite us after the War Between the States. Now the cultural cleansing is in full gear and our shame is that it has been successful.

I accuse conservative Christians of pursuing aims like the support of Israel and the Drug War which have hastened the collapse of our Republic. Blue Laws made it clear to everyone in America that you can pressure government to impose your will on other people. You have put social agenda ahead of the Gospel and your personal politics over the intent of the Republic. Time spent in pursuit of political goals from a pulpit is time stolen from Christ and His Gospel. Let the laymen handle it.

To the American soldiers who in the midst of all this insanity, are doing an ugly job that has to be done, I salute you all and wish you a Merry Christmas – and particularly Captain Larry and his Marines, and Major Kirk and his MPs. They are in Cuba and Kuwait respectively and they deserve better backup than they are getting from us. They are prepared to die for our freedom – shouldn’t we at least fight for it too, here on the home front?

To the enemies of freedom, and of Western Culture, I wish you confusion and despair, that you might see the error of your ways and we might be protected from the horrors you are unleashing upon us. I pray that God will fill you with His grace that you might have eyes to see and find true repentance and the joy of His salvation.

And finally, to the folks who murdered those people in New York – I hope that Santa comes down the chimney soon….

December 24, 2001


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To: FreeTally
Make fun of someone's name and they are automatically discredited.

I don't see a lot of people making fun of Spew's name, but I do see a lot of apt descriptions. ;-)

41 posted on 12/26/2001 8:44:46 AM PST by an amused spectator
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To: tberry
"I accuse Southern American conservatives of tolerating disrespect for your ancestors and your heritage, collaboration with a wicked and heathen occupier and abandoning your God given task of being the conscience of this Republic. "

That statement alone is evidence that Mr. Peirce is not a frequent visitor.

42 posted on 12/26/2001 8:54:04 AM PST by 4CJ
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To: A Vast RightWing Conspirator
I am reminded of when I first found FR. There was much disention among the ranks as to who would run the show, Jim Robinson or Don Morgan, Mojo, and a bunch of others. There were the same complaints being made now about censorship, etc., back then. That little dust up spawned Lucianne.com and some others. Well, I don't suppose that you need to be reminded that Jim Robinson still runs the show here, and as a result, FR is continually outgrowing itself while the spin offs aren't doing too well.

Since some of you are no longer making contributions to the intellectual exchange here, instead just complaining about what FR is, or has become as you say, why don't you simply do as the earlier malcontents did and go do your own thing elsewhere?

43 posted on 12/26/2001 8:57:36 AM PST by Mind-numbed Robot
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To: Mind-numbed Robot
I'm generally doing that.

As far as the 'intellectual exchange'... I still enjoy the threads on the unified theory or Nietzche's last thoughts. So... I'm part of that.

If you are confusing 'intellectual exchange' with the so-called political discourse slash humor, I did make a significant contribution yesterday on a thread dealing with Heraldo and FNC. Needless to say, the thread disappeared.

44 posted on 12/26/2001 9:06:53 AM PST by A Vast RightWing Conspirator
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To: billbears; sheltonmac; shuckmaster; wasp69; aomagrat; palmetto; JMJ333
BUMP for a rant worth reading...
46 posted on 12/26/2001 9:15:10 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: shuckmaster
Sorry Shuck. I didn't see you had already read it!

(GMTA)

47 posted on 12/26/2001 9:16:16 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: The Spanish Inquisition
A lot of people in England at the time thought that Neville Chamberlain was conducting "good foreign policy" in Munich.

"Maybe it's time for nations that are not Muslim theocracies to agree with this and outlaw Islam on the grounds that it is not a religion but a subversive political belief, an imperialistic, international terrorist conspiracy designed to overthrow democratic governments. Western democracies can and should hault immigration of Muslims and outlaw the practice of Islam on these grounds."

3 posted on 12/26/01 5:18 AM Pacific by Savage Beast

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Sometimes, mean people are just mean people. ;-)

48 posted on 12/26/2001 9:16:47 AM PST by an amused spectator
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To: Mind-numbed Robot
That little dust up spawned Lucianne.com and some others.

Actually, I think it was the other way around, if you know what I mean. Start a fight here to try to drive up the hits at your own site. Is Lucy.com still around?

49 posted on 12/26/2001 9:39:39 AM PST by Ditto
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To: Ditto
Is Lucy.com still around?

Don't know, don't care. I get all I need right here. If that ever stops I will not complain about it, I will just stop coming here. I doubt that will ever happen. Too many good posts to let the complainers get the best of me.

My memory is a little fuzzy about who came first, FR or LC. I learned of FR first, I think, but now i am not even sure about that. :-)

50 posted on 12/26/2001 9:51:54 AM PST by Mind-numbed Robot
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To: Mind-numbed Robot; a vast rightwing conspirator; freetally; cyber liberty
I am reminded of when I first found FR. There was much disention among the ranks as to who would run the show, Jim Robinson or Don Morgan, Mojo, and a bunch of others. There were the same complaints being made now about censorship, etc., back then. That little dust up spawned Lucianne.com and some others.

Well, I don't suppose that you need to be reminded that Jim Robinson still runs the show here, and as a result, FR is continually outgrowing itself while the spin offs aren't doing too well. Since some of you are no longer making contributions to the intellectual exchange here, instead just complaining about what FR is, or has become as you say, why don't you simply do as the earlier malcontents did and go do your own thing elsewhere?

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You forget that prior to leaving in a huff, the coven were playing their power games with the benign approval of the FR-PTB. -- To my mind, much the same game is being played now, and some of the present authoritarian crowd may even be the same players.

I wish someone would/could say it isn't so, with a explanation of why it sure looks that way.

Instead of mind-numbing 'love it or leave' suggestions.

51 posted on 12/26/2001 9:53:48 AM PST by tpaine
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To: The Spanish Inquisition
I'd respond to your screed, but Larry Elder did a much better job. Although he discusses poverty, his analysis strikes to the heart of your claim that the terrorists are responding because of our foreign policy:

Arab World Poverty -- Whose Fault?

[CAPITALISMMAGAZINE.COM] "I don't have the knowledge to blame a government," said Bakhtiar Khan, an Afghan man in his mid-twenties. "I don't know about politics, but for our problems I blame the world community. All humans should be equal, but we are not. You ask me who is to blame. You find out who is to blame."

Khan, according to a recent New York Times piece on the origins of Islamic extremism, earns a subsistence level income making bricks in a pit outside the city of Peshawar, an Afghan city of 2 million, nearly 50 percent refugees. When asked about his life, he says, "Life is cruel. You can see for yourself. You wear nice clothes and are healthy. But look at us. We have no clothes to wear and we are not healthy. Your question is amazing."

So, who is to blame?

A recent story on Afghan schools described a teacher who holds up a wealth pie chart. America, she shows her students, controls this huge slice of the pie, leaving a tiny sliver for us Afghans. The not-so-subtle point? Afghans suffer poverty because of America's disproportionate wealth.

But no, Khan lacks the "knowledge to blame a government." For, through knowledge, Khan would discover that his poverty stems from corrupt, dictatorial governments, the absence of capitalism and free trade, and the lack of individual rights and the rule of law. But who, in the Arab world, spreads this message?

Dr. Muqtedar Khan, director of International Studies at Adrian College in Michigan, challenges American Muslims to set the masses straight: "While we loudly and consistently condemn Israel for its ill treatment of Palestinians, we are silent when Muslim regimes abuse the rights of Muslims and slaughter thousands of them. Remember Saddam and his use of chemical weapons against Muslims (Kurds)? Remember Pakistani army's excesses against Muslims (Bengalis)? Remember the Mujahideen of Afghanistan and their mutual slaughter? Have we ever condemned them for their excesses? Have we demanded international intervention or retribution against them? Do you know how the Saudis treat their minority Shiis? Have we protested the violation of their rights? But we all are eager to condemn Israel; not because we care for rights and lives of the Palestinians, we don't. We condemn Israel because we hate 'them.'

"Muslims love to live in the U.S. but also love to hate it. Many openly claim that the U.S. is a terrorist state but they continue to live in it. Their decision to live here is testimony that they would rather live here than anywhere else. As an Indian Muslim, I know for sure that nowhere on earth, including India, will I get the same sense of dignity and respect that I have received in the U.S. No Muslim country will treat me as well as the U.S. has. If what happened on Sept. 11 had happened in India, the biggest democracy, thousands of Muslims would have been slaughtered in riots on mere suspicion and there would be another slaughter after confirmation. But in the U.S., bigotry and xenophobia has been kept in check by media and leaders ...

"It is time that we acknowledge that the freedoms we enjoy in the U.S. are more desirable to us than superficial solidarity with the Muslim World. If you disagree, then prove it by packing your bags and going to whichever Muslim country you identify with. If you do not leave and do not acknowledge that you would rather live here than anywhere else, know that you are being hypocritical.

"It is time that we faced these hypocritical practices and struggled to transcend them. It is time that American Muslim leaders fought to purify their own lot."

But only a few weeks ago, Arab leaders condemned Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for calling Western civilization "superior" because it "guarantees respect for human rights and religion." Harsh criticism forced him to recant his "racist" statement. But if we call Berlusconi's remarks "racist," in what category do we place the statement made by Abdulrahman Awadi, formerly a high-ranking official in Kuwait? When Kuwait learned that Sulaiman abu Ghaith, a Kuwaiti citizen, had become a top lieutenant with Osama bin Laden, Kuwait revoked abu Ghaith's citizenship. Awadi said, "This is a wake-up call that we have to be very careful with freedom. Democracy and freedom of choice may be good for Western cultures, but for the Gulf countries, those are dangerous things. These people are using freedom to achieve their ends."

Who is to blame?

Countries like Saudi Arabia and Egypt suffer double-digit unemployment rates, estimated as high as 25 percent. Grinding poverty and religious zealotry, wrapped around a blanket of government-led scapegoating of Israel, the United States and the West -- all combine to form a dangerous and deadly Third World victicrat mindset. Blame triumphs over enlightenment, and anger defeats reason.

CREATORS SYNDICATE COPYRIGHT 2001 LAURENCE A. ELDER

52 posted on 12/26/2001 10:07:03 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: tpaine
To my mind, much the same game is being played now, and some of the present authoritarian crowd may even be the same players.

The problems you are alluding to came from two sources - the initial reaction to the events of 9/11, and the growing pains of creating a moderator system. If you look around the forum today, there isn't much moderation going on - just look at the number of Lew Rockwell and Antiwar posts in place today - so how can there be such horrific censorship? Just because some posters say these articles shouldn't be here, it doesn't mean that FR is censoring...

53 posted on 12/26/2001 10:10:17 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: coloradan
Cowards run from fights, libertarians are in the arena taking on the drug war.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

55 posted on 12/26/2001 10:18:58 AM PST by Roscoe
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To: The Spanish Inquisition
I wrote a screed? BS.

I consider blame-America ideology to be just that - a screed.

You just want to keep pretending to be a libertarian while hiding behind the governments skirts

And now you resort to the clasic ad hominem attack approach. Libertarianism isn't even the issue we are debating here. Let's get back to Elder's core premise:

Countries like Saudi Arabia and Egypt suffer double-digit unemployment rates, estimated as high as 25 percent. Grinding poverty and religious zealotry, wrapped around a blanket of government-led scapegoating of Israel, the United States and the West -- all combine to form a dangerous and deadly Third World victicrat mindset. Blame triumphs over enlightenment, and anger defeats reason.

That's a shot right in the middle of your attempts to pin the attacks on American foreign policy, and it's telling you resorted to a pointless attack rather than address the debate. Later, I've got no more time to waste on the likes of you.

56 posted on 12/26/2001 10:23:42 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy
Yep, the last little dust up seemed to have curbed the censorship of threads, and for the last few weeks, seems to have helped in a less arbitrary policy on post removals. - Now, I'm beginning to see selective enforcement of what constitutes 'personal abuse' once again. Thus my previous post:

You forget that prior to leaving in a huff, the coven were playing their power games with the benign approval of the FR-PTB. -- To my mind, much the same game is being played now, and some of the present authoritarian crowd may even be the same players.

I wish someone would/could say it isn't so, with a explanation of why it sure looks that way. Instead of mind-numbing 'love it or leave' suggestions. - #51

57 posted on 12/26/2001 10:41:39 AM PST by tpaine
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To: tpaine
Now, I'm beginning to see selective enforcement of what constitutes 'personal abuse' once again.

Well, first of all, if someone mashes the abuse button, the moderators do not get information about who sent the abuse, which was done intentionally to minimize any personal preferences coming into play. Second, the moderators can't patrol all the threads, so if there is flaming going on and no one tells them, they may not see it. And third, there is still a degree of individual judgement on the part of the moderators, so what is acceptable to one may constitute abuse to another when the flaming is right on the line of acceptable insults. But there has been a concerted effort to apply less moderation to FR over recent weeks.

58 posted on 12/26/2001 10:45:53 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: doug from upland
The Libertarian Party no longer has the appeal it once had for me.

Same here DFU. After 911, it has been time to separate the wheat from the chaffe and for people to step up to plate and lead. I have heard the rantings of libertarians and especially, that idiot Harry Browne, blame America for everything. Browne is the person who really turned me off.

59 posted on 12/26/2001 10:47:25 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: tpaine
I wish someone would/could say it isn't so, with a explanation of why it sure looks that way.

It may look that way to you but it doesn't to all of us. There must be rules else chaos and self-destruction result. When there are rules someone must be in charge of enforcing them. Noone enforcing the rules will be able to please everyone, especially in a freewheeling forum such as this. Apparently the monitors have the approval of Jim Robinson to act in his stead. Therefore, the only practical choice is the one I suggested - going elsewhere if you disapprove of how FR is being run.

My advice would be to continue to enjoy FR, continue to make your constructive contributions, and stop expecting FR to be perfectly to your taste. If we all agreed it would truly be a dull site to which few of us would return on a regular basis, much less become addicted.

It is still the best conservative clipping service in the world and we know our opinions are often heeded because we see them in print or hear them on radio and TV all the time. The freepers who came up with the various ideas may not get credit but they are having an effect, which is what we really want anyway. I hope you and your likeminded freepers continue to add your ideas to the brew.

60 posted on 12/26/2001 10:52:10 AM PST by Mind-numbed Robot
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