History of FR

7/15/99 | JR

[EdReform]

BTTT

[EdReform]

A very nice bump!

[BillF]

Quoted from Jim Robinson above:

. . . I was gonna go to the Whitehouse and protest the President's beating of Don Adams and so the March for Justice was born. It was originally just gonna be protest outside the Whitehouse but more and more people and groups got involved and so it had to be moved to Lafayette Park where there is more room available, and then eventually to the Washington Monument.

Per our discussion, that first DC rally (March for Justice=MFJ) was at Washington Monument on Halloween 1998. You were talking about the Judgment Day Rally near the Capitol, which was later and smaller in number that the MFJ.

[MeekOneGOP]

Bumping up some OLD FR History here!! :)

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[MeekOneGOP]

Hope you don’t mind that I “borrowed” yer pic there.

MY pic with JimRob vanished when my ISP converted from
Comcast to Time Warner.

Besides, I like to “borrow” family pics. :)

[Grampa Dave]

Great picture.

Thanks re posting it and pinging us.

[afnamvet]

Hi Meekie, that will be $4000/pic.....just kiddin’. It’s all yours.

[gonzo]

Lotsa trials and tribulations, but FR is still here!

Makes me happy ................ FRegards

[gonzo]

Crap! - I replied to the wrong one, Meek. Thanks for the heads-up ................ FRegards

[ntnychik]

Thanks for the ping. Very interesting. I found this site early on from the link at the Drudge site. Haven’t been to Drudge much since. Too much going on here. ‘98. those were the days.

[dixiechick2000]

It may be “old” FR history, but what a wonderful pic.

You guys are GREAT!

Thank you so much for the ping. ;o)

[MeekOneGOP]

LOL! Thanks. :^D

[MeekOneGOP]

You bet! My pleasure. :)

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks to y’all !! :^D

[MeekOneGOP]

Thank YOU Grampa!

And your tagline is a BULLSEYE !!

[OKIEDOC]

Excellent read from a very fine man.

I first head of FRee Republic while living in South America from a friend.

This was around the end of 1998 early 1999.

Doc and I had a limited telephone connection to the clinic due to shoddy service and an Internet service that was strictly slow dial up.

My telephone service did not get better until I started greasing the greedy hands down at the State Run Phone company.

I tried to post several times to the forum and it was a night mare.

During the 9-11 trauma all of our English news was delivered by those Communist bastards known as CNN International.

I was thankful to get any kind of news that was not anti-American as those CNNI Brits.

I feel like that I have gotten back 10 fold in enjoyment for every dollar donated to FR.

Thanks Jim and best of luck.

[Quix]

Those accusations have ALWAYS outraged me.

I felt I knew Jim’s heart from the beginning just from the public evidence on FR. Time has proven me right. Faithless . . . fickle ‘friends’ are just beyond dispicable to me.

I’ve long wanted FREEPERS to build up an endowment for JimRob and for FR.

AT this point, I think rough enough waters are close enough that we need to be adding some heft money-wise just to cope with increasing daily junk, imho. I mean, the liberal globalist socialist communist idiots are not likely to get more friendly in any respect toward FR. And imho, JimRob and FR need all the buffer we can get ahead to just keep effective functioning above water as the calculated and scheduled traumas of the globalists increase.

How to make that happen is a mystery—other than having a piggy back category during FREEPATHONS of some targeted percentage of the over all goal such that people could designate say 90% for regular FREEPATHON goals and 10% for endowment or emergencies or some such.

Being essentially out of my part time work in the summer I’m in great shape to be talking to anyone about money in any respects.

Nevertheless, our beloved FR DADDY has well earned any and all the extra encouragement and tangible support we can cobble together.

Besides—IT’S IN OUR BEHALF AS WELL AS OUR REPUBLIC’S BEHALF. imho, We’d be foolish to do less.

Thanks for posting this again. Had been a long time since I’d read it.

[Joya]

See post # 417. Thanks.

[trisham]

Thanks for bumping this thread, Meeky.

[John Leland 1789]

I’m at a loss. Was there something particular you needed me to see in post #417? Maybe you can explain in a private post. I’ll check again. Thanks.