Frankly, I am rather burned out. I rarely post on threads other than the Canteen threads where I feel I can still make a difference. As i said in Post #80, "I fully understand that if we devoted 10% of the time and energy we spend here out there doing something we can restore our Republic.". I still feel that way. However I no longer think that FReepers feel the same way. This is an election year, I do not see the committment needed to clean out the corruption in Congress. We can't even clean out the disrupters on FR.
Sad.
Yep, it is an election year.
When it isn't an election year, it will be next year. So watch what you say!
I think it is a shame what has happened here.
I found Lucianne.com. I loved it!
About a year after I found it, she got moderators. The very best posters were banned. They kept the ones that never really said anything.
Then I found Pipebombnews.com, because one of the banned ones signed in with a new name and posted it as a place to go. I am happy to say I saw it before the whole thread was pulled.
I found lots of the names I had enjoyed at L.com there. Someone, I don't remember who, posted a link to FR.
DANG! I was HOME!.
Yes, every once in a while a poster was banned. Poor old A+Bert was banned a lot but he could come back later. I always enjoyed him.
LOL! He was finally, really banned forever because this pushing 80 year old man,(A+Bert) threatened to kill another freeper, that lives in another state!
OK, everything was still cool. Bush is in the Whitehouse.
Then, 9/11 happened.
Old Freepers I loved to read were "no current freeper".
Then, in late March or early April, all of the Chief negotiator murder investigation threads were pulled. Why? Lots, at least 200 freepers very interested. Why were they all deleted?
Now it seems all we have is bragging on President Bush's secret plan, when we get mad that he is out Democrating the Democrats!
So. What is going on here? We use to fight and make up. Now Daddy won't let us work it all out.
Is that you Trixie?