Posted on 09/08/2001 6:21:07 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
I was a normal kind of guy. I ate food went out for walks and even watched videos, eek! I took the wife shopping. Even talked to the wife once in awhile.
Then that fateful night of Nov 7th 2000. I had to go somewhere else to to watch the election results as I do not have Cable TV. I went to the pizza joint on rt 7 and then to my secret election watch hide out.(No one to interupt)
I wanted to watch Bush beat the socks off of Gore. I new it was going to be a great night. Little did I know I would never sleep that night or for the next 5 weeks.
It took me till the end of November to find out I was not alone. That there was a freerepublic.com.
Before I would tell people the truth and they all wouldn't have a clue or they thought, this boy is NUTS! It was a lonely life thinking Am I The Only One that sees what is going on with this country and what the liberal bias media and the leftist democrats were doing to it, let alone the Clintons and Reno.
Well to make the story short. I was watching the news and these great people were on TV saying get out of Cheneys house. There it was the sign said Freerepublic.com. I copied it down and ran to my computer. I typed it in and sure enough The NEW WORLD WAS RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES!
I think what would my life be if there was not a FR. If the rest of you were not here. That was enough to make me sit up and take notice. What can I do to make sure FR is here forever. Then I found out all I had to do was support the place and along with 70,000 other members make FR home. That we could change the world from here and with hundreds of thousands of people stopping by everyday we could tell the whole world the truth.
I would not trade all of you fine FReepers for any other world.
My life has never been the same since I found www.freerepublic.com (What about yours?) Ok everyone has your life been the same since logging on to FR and what adventures have you had?
THANK YOU JIM ROBINSON for starting Free Republic.
God Bless you all and God Bless America!!
I was fortunate enough to have been reading "Atlas Shrugged" at the time that I started back to school. What a contrast!!
Anyway, not too long after returning to school and discovering the extreme liberalism that existed there, I stumbled across Freerepublic.com and I've been here ever since. Its great to discuss news items with people that have common sense, aren't constantly trolling, and aren't socialists for the most part. The few socialists that have passed through here have either been disruptors (and were immediately dismissed), have changed their feelings, or (in rare instances) have been cordial enough to offer a good arguement.
Just replace "got high" with "on-line," and you get this first verse:
I was gonna clean my room, but I'm on line
Was gonna get up and find the broom, but I'm on line
My room is still messed up, and I know why
Cause I'm on line, cause I'm on line, cause I'm on line.
We will never run out of things to do again in our lifetime. Like restore this great Nation and keep it #1
That is a fact.
Please see source of this thread if you haven't already done so. It is amazing what 70,000 people can do. Let alone 400,000 of you lurkers. Stop lurking and post tonight and let Freerepublic welcome you to the most fun inside the blue and red zones.
What kind of a democrat rat could even think up such a thing? Red and Blue zone.
At least we knew Rita Cosby was wrong - we looked up the Supreme Court opinion online, and had it figured out before the reporters did. Same for most of the legal finagling afterwards.
Free Republic is a great site. A good number of the contributors are exceptionally competent, i.e. they are rigorous, smart, and demand trustworthy sources for information before they draw conclusions. No other place I know of can hold a candle to FR!
Thanks, Jim Robinson, for this added dimension to my life. I don't know what I ever did without it!
Yup....now I spend way too much time on the computer. At least with Freerepublic it's quality time.
You did great with your first post. Join in again its fun.
Neat posting name
Come on who else wants to join in. How was your life changed by finding out about freerepublic?
Then I found out on FreeRepublic that Clinton was coming to Philadelphia on October 2, 1998. On October 1st, I called City Hall in Philadelphia, and they told me unambiguously that Clinton was coming that evening. I de-lurked in order to raise the alarm.
As it turned out, my post was in error. Fine Freepers soon set me straight with hard evidence. My wife, Mrs. Physicist, helped me to make a sign for the planned FR rally against Clinton. The sign said "COWARD!" in 450-point Helvetica Bold.
I got to City Hall at 4:30 on October 2, 1998. I was expecting to see hundreds of people arrayed against Clinton, as had been happening all over the country, along with many Freepers. What I found was an organized rally of about 500 people in support of Clinton, most of them carrying signs that said "Teamsters for Clinton". I was the only anti-Clinton protester there.
I remembered something I had read on a thread a few days before. Some Freepers were complaining about an anti-Clinton rally in Ohio, saying that it wasn't a successful rally because only a few hundred people were there. A wise Freeper pointed out that it only takes one person to have a successful rally. Those words gave me the strength to raise my sign. The police had inadvertently forced me to stand amongst the Teamsters, and I began my protest right in the middle of them.
It took maybe 30 seconds before they took my sign away, roughed me up, and threw me out. (I believe that I am still the only Freeper ever to have his blood shed by the enemy while Freeping.) My horrified wife watched on the couch with my young daughters as LuAnn Cahn led off the 5:00 pm broadcast of NBC 10 in Philadelphia with a verbal account of how there was only one protester, a man carrying a sign that said "COWARD!", who was dealt with harshly by the crowd. In reality I was not badly injured, but from the time I raised my sign until I was safely across the street, my only expectation was that I would be severely beaten.
Two and a half hours later, I witnessed the far more vicious beating of Don and Teri Adams.
It was the most terrifying experience of my life. Since that incident, I have organized about a dozen protests in the Philadelphia area, most of them to protest a Clinton visit. One of the reasons I do it is to prove to myself that, despite my acute fear, the Clinton brownshirts have not intimidated me away from doing what I thought was right.
Part of the fallout of the City Hall Putsch was the October 31, 1998 March for Justice in Washington DC. Prior to the march, I contacted Don and Teri Adams and got them to appear. It led to my involvement with the 4 court cases that came out of the Adams beatings. It also led to the formation of the FreeRepublic Philadelphia chapter.
But here's the main difference that FreeRepublic has made in my life: I can look myself in the face in the mirror.
My story is much the same. A friend sent me a link to FreeRepublic. I visited, imediately signed in and have been here ever since........ in between nagging living outside of cyber-world.
I support FreeRepublic because FreeRepublic supports me.
It supports me by giving me a place to share my thoughts with like-minded individuals thereby saving my sanity.
In a world over-flowing with left-wing, liberal, socialist tripe, FreeRepublic is an island of warm breezes and gentle ocean mists.
I love FreeRepublic. I love FReepers. I will continue to support FreeRepublic with my finances as long as I am able!
Thank you for this cool thread!
Even though I am in New Jersey, I have been to about 10 or so White House Freeps over the last 2+ years. I was also able to make 3 of the Gore VP mansion election freeps. In addition, I was able to freep at Times Square several times during the Gore fiasco. And, of course, the icing on the cake was attending the Count the Silverware Inaugural Ball.
While my efforts can in no way compare to many, I hope that, in some small way, my participation has helped the cause of Freepers everywhere.
Of course, this has changed my life! I have traveled a bit more, met great people, and I feel as if I am a part of a cause greater than myself. In addition, I am not as reluctant to speak out about politics and things that I find offensive in our culture.
As for on the homefront, FR is the first thing to come on in the morning and the last thing that gets turned off at night. I cannot check in while at work, so it is the first thing I look at when I come home...even before my e-mail!
Yes, it is an addiction. My house has not been kept up as it used to be, laundry now piles up, and other interests have taken a back seat. I think I will wean off a little once time cures my anxiety attacks brought on by Clintonism in all of its forms. But, in the meantime, I am so thrilled with Dubya and the new administration that I am on FR a lot just to see how he is doing (the mainstream press does not give me enough info). Also, we do not live far from Hillary's stomping grounds, so FR helps me to keep an eye on her! And then, there are issues, old and new, they are very important to me and FR provides well-rounded coverage and insight on a wealth of subjects.
So, I guess I am going to be addicted for a very long time. Well, there are worse things.........
I have been on FR for over 3 1/2 years.
I used to be an active poster - but over the last few months - not nearly as active as I used to. I still do a lot of lurking, though.
And yes - my life has never been the same either. It's amazing!!
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