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This is just a drill: Thanks to John McCain, Free Republic will shut down tomorrow at high noon for
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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coming election cycle and all election cycles in the future until we can get the unconstitutional McCain-Feingold act repealed.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
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To: Clintons Are White Trash
"..immediately preceding", didn't get that.

But still, there isn't going to be a primary election in 30 days, or am I seriously missing something?

61 posted on 03/23/2006 8:11:48 PM PST by the anti-liberal (Hey, Al Qaeda: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent)
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To: Jim Robinson
America was free thanks to the blood of our Veterans...

America loses it's freedoms thanks to the corruption of our politicans....

62 posted on 03/23/2006 8:11:50 PM PST by joesnuffy (A camel once bit our sister..but we knew just what to do...we gathered rocks and squashed her!)
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To: Jim Robinson

This is why I hate Freepathons.


63 posted on 03/23/2006 8:11:54 PM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: Jim Robinson

Rat bastidge. He needs his RINO horn sawed off.


64 posted on 03/23/2006 8:11:56 PM PST by manic4organic (We won. Get over it.)
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To: kerryusama04

There is a back up Yahoogroup for FR. I will have to go and find the link. You join up there and when FR is down, we all congregate over there.


65 posted on 03/23/2006 8:12:09 PM PST by pollywog (Psalm 121;1 I Lift my eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help.)
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To: Jim Robinson
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.


This is about as funny as the time my mom told me she had cancer as a joke.
66 posted on 03/23/2006 8:12:25 PM PST by JamesP81
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To: Jim Robinson

Jim, yer kiddin', right?


67 posted on 03/23/2006 8:12:32 PM PST by Just Lori (To everything, there is a season.........Ecclesiastes, 3:1-8)
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To: Jim Robinson

Amen!!!


68 posted on 03/23/2006 8:12:35 PM PST by sdcraigo
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To: Jim Robinson
You forgot that neat little whistle they blow on a ship just before they say: "NOW HEAR THIS!!!"
69 posted on 03/23/2006 8:12:42 PM PST by SierraWasp (Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know man!!! (or especially Waspman!!!))
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To: Jim Robinson

You ain't seen nothin'. If they try that, I'll march on Washington with y'all. Let's boogie!


70 posted on 03/23/2006 8:12:42 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Why did Allah create free will and then demand submission? Wouldn't robots have been easier?)
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To: Jim Robinson

This is awful.


71 posted on 03/23/2006 8:12:52 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
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To: Jim Robinson

The right and the left are going to have to join forces on this one. I know it sounds sickening but the entire United States needs to kick some butt.


72 posted on 03/23/2006 8:13:06 PM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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To: dubyaismypresident

in all seriousness, not to take away from the importance of this being a "flash point" for everyone to rally around to try and get this crap stopped - a backup plan, a fund raising effort, to locate a backup server somewhere outside the US - is not a bad idea. I'll contribute.


73 posted on 03/23/2006 8:13:26 PM PST by oceanview
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To: Jim Robinson
Is John McCain a bloomin' dirty rat fink communist? Seems like we're back in the old corrupt defunct U.S.S.R.

Just what the hell is "non-government approved electioneering messages" supposed to mean?

I thought the government was for the people, by the people and of the people, not John McCain on some hormonal freakout.

Jim Robinson, is this for sure true? If so, be prepared for a bunch of dedicated FReeper addicts forced into cold turkey withdrawals.

74 posted on 03/23/2006 8:13:48 PM PST by harpo11 (I wish President Bush could run in 2008! The rats would really be squealing...LOL!!!)
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To: Jim Robinson; PeaceBeWithYou; null and void; Borax Queen; nicmarlo; Darlin'; goldensky; faux_hog; ..
This is a joke, right? A very bad joke at that. The entire internet would be shut down. This can't possibly be for real. And how is it constitutional? Oh, that's right. Agenda trumps the Comstitution.
75 posted on 03/23/2006 8:13:48 PM PST by sweetliberty (Stupidity should make you sterile.)
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To: Jim Robinson
I especially like the keyword 'timeforpitchforks'.

I think it's time for "Torches R Us".
76 posted on 03/23/2006 8:13:50 PM PST by Brizick (Repeal the 17th Amendment)
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To: Jim Robinson

You can't be messing with the FReepers that way, JimRob!! Watch out for the PainTrain!!

77 posted on 03/23/2006 8:13:56 PM PST by JRios1968 (A DUmmie troll's motto: "Non cogito, ergo zot")
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To: armymarinemom
The right and the left are going to have to join forces on this one. I know it sounds sickening but the entire United States needs to kick some butt.

Or the President could grow a pair.

Naaaah.

78 posted on 03/23/2006 8:14:07 PM PST by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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To: Jim Robinson

I picked a bad day to give up drinking.


79 posted on 03/23/2006 8:14:08 PM PST by Williams
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To: BOBWADE
What happened to the 1st amendment? I thought that open discussions were still allowed here in Amerika

Well if I am denied a voice then I will seek to deny the press a voice as well.

80 posted on 03/23/2006 8:14:22 PM PST by Paul C. Jesup
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