What Makes a FReeper a FReeper?

FR | 8-21-07 | Bob J

[Bob J]

I often wondered what exactly makes a FReeper a FReeper? Is it the simple act of reading articles on FR? Do you have to post articles or replies? To call yourself a FReeper do you need to engage in effective activism like writing letters to politicians, getting out in the street to carry signs, or, is being a FReeper an attitude. If so, what attitude is that?

Knock yourself out.

[Humidston]

AMEN, sister! Gawd, how I miss it.

[MindBender26]

You got it, welcome aboard.

:)

[QuiMundus]

A Freeper must have a sense of humor

I hope I qualify!

[TAdams8591]

Me too~! : )

[3catsanadog]

Being logged in.

Can anybody help me??? Am I logged in??? Please, I'm series.

[Little Bill]

With due respect in return. The slavery arguement can be restated as; Does a state within the Federal system, as envisioned by the founders, have the right to order itself as it pleases and pass laws and create intuitions to maintain that order?

The only limitation imposed by the Constitution is that all States shall have a Republican form of government. The Federalist papers state that the States will be the laboratories of FReedom. (My Family were rabid abolitionists by the way) I never bought the fact that the Civil War was an entirely economic conflict. too Marxist for my Yankee soul.

[LS]

K. So we differ, pretty substantially.

[Just another Joe]

Anyone with a sign up date after 11/28/97 is a newbie.

Said the newbie. ;^)

[ASA Vet]

Yep

[ASA Vet]

slacker.....only 6 or 8 hours?

Giving Huck some slack, I assume that "6 or 8 hours" was only while at work and on the clock.

[Little Bill]

As the great Mark Twain said, "A difference of opinion makes a horse race."

My major problem is that I had a Grandfather with an 1840 view of the Constitution and my admiration of Marc Block and the Frog annalists, my Grandfather hated the Frogs, "All the evil in the world, Billy, originated in France."

[LS]

Well, I certainly can't disagree with that statement.

When I tour the country giving talks on "America's Victories: Why the U.S. Wins Wars," I quote a line from a British officer in 1812, observing that the Americans had no discipline and were not dressed impressively, but that, "like the French," they could make their lines with precision. I add, "Americans, of course, immediately recoiled at being compared to the French."

[Little Bill]

LOL, Les Crapaud lead with Louis the Chin. An interesting study of American Militia is the “Battle of Platsberg Landing”. The Regulars, US, maneuvered off of the Militia who held the SW of the line.

[skinkinthegrass]

I assume that "6 or 8 hours" was only while at work and on the clock.

*looking behind my back*
Oh! Sorry.
I thought, Only I did that. :D

[Huck]

Well, for the past year and a half I’ve been self employed, so I don’t slack like I used to. Back in my corporate days? Fuggettabout it. But I still find time to hang out here.

[LS]

Militia gets a bad rap. When well deployed and led, they were formidable. Jackson’s militia on the east bank at the Battle of New Orleans did exceptionally well. Those on the other side, who were deployed way too far forward, were overrun. The main problem with militia was that after they fired 2-3 rounds, they didn’t have weapons with bayonets, nor bayonet training, so they were pretty much helpless if they didn’t kill all the enemy in those volleys.

[Darksheare]

“What Makes a FReeper a FReeper?”

They’ve tried my coffee, and lived to tell about it.
Though some were more scathed by it than others.

[Little Bill]

Can’t argue with that statement. Dan Morgan at Cowpens, knew the limitations of Militia and used them effectually in that battle. Saratoga and Bennington, Dan Morgan again, the Militia was effective. Bunker Hill when the NH Militia hit the British left again used well.

There were Commanders that knew how to use these troops and their limitations. Most people forget that outside of the Main theaters there was an on going civil war fought entirely by the Militia.

[LS]

It's pretty safe to say that without the southern militia armies, there would have been no Yorktown. They winnowed Cornwallis's and Tarleton's forces so badly that they HAD to be reinforced.

Either Hanson or John Keegan, I think, has a chapter about the "culture of forebearance," where the side that holds its fire the longest wins. That's because the first side to fire was then vulnerable while loading. But moreover, it was the bayonet that made the practice of loading under fire so "iffy," because at any minute the enemey could charge, and you are left in essence with a big club!

[Rollee]

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