Freedom Fighters-FR mentioned in Liberal paper

badger herald ^ | 05/09/02 | Kate McDonald

[Snow Bunny]

Thanks RonDog

[nutmeg]

BTTT

[Diddle E. Squat]

A freeper running against Daschle? Where do I send the campaign contribution?

[Reagan Man]

The left would have two parties, Green and Democrat, and the right would have at least half a dozen.

Sounds like the European model to me. =^)

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[StriperSniper]

That ignores the archiving function of FR to insure that the history of some of these things are preserved. If all you have are links, links go dead, then the discussion is much less valuable without the source material.

[EternalVigilance]

You have FReepmail! ;-)

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks for the ping!

I agree with Dog Gone -- this needs to go the SCOTUS and let them rule and then let the Washington Post and LA Times get what they have coming to them. Count me in for a donation! Hope they are forced to not only pay legal bills but damages for bringing what I consider a frivolous lawsuit against FR!

[MeekOneGOP]

[MonroeDNA]

...I will seek a way to file an amicus curia brief in the Supreme Court on behalf of FreeRepublic's position. There will be many interested parties who will support its viewpoint. (When that comes around, it will be either my 18th or 19th brief in that court. None have been more honorable than this one will be.)

You are the best! And I am so glad you are on our side.

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks! That's cute! I love smilely faces especially ones that wink!

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks! As soon as I can find more of those, I'll add 'em to me collection!.....

[RonDog]

I smell SLAPP suit!!!

Hmmm... Could be.

SLAPP = "Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation"

From http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/documents/Beder_SLAPPS.html:

"...Every year thousands of people are sued in the USA for speaking out against governments and corporations. Multi-million dollar law suits are being filed against individual citizens and groups for circulating petitions, writing to public officials, speaking at, or even just attending, public meetings, organising boycotts and engaging in peaceful demonstrations.[2] These law suits have been labelled "Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation" or SLAPPs by University of Denver academics Penelope Canan and George Pring, who have been studying such suits for more than a decade with the help of funding from the US National Science Foundation...

...One trial judge pointed out:

The conceptual thread that binds [SLAPPs] is that they are suits without substantial merit that are brought by private interests to "stop citizens from exercising their political rights or to punish them for having done so"...The longer the litigation can be stretched out, the more litigation that can be churned, the greater the expense that is inflicted and the closer the SLAPP filer moves to success. The purpose of such gamesmanship ranges from simple retribution for past activism to discouraging future activism.[17]...

[an amused spectator]

The conceptual thread that binds [SLAPPs] is that they are suits without substantial merit that are brought by private interests to "stop citizens from exercising their political rights or to punish them for having done so"...

Actually, due to the selling of online newspaper archives to high school, university and public libraries, this may have crossed over into the realm of a "suit without substantial merit."

We all pay for these online archives through our tax dollars. You can access them online through a password system from your local library, or go to a local university or high school and access them there. I know that Newsbank has an "email this article option". They're not charging you to email the article, so can you email a single article all day long?

I know that I can access a number of these archives in a number of ways, and a majority of Netizens should be able to achieve similar access. (If the selling consortium attempts to control this access, they can be easily smacked down with the ADA)

The playing field may have changed. ;-)

[RonDog]

In the meantime, the group is barred from allowing its members to post full-text articles from The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times.

But the Los Angeles Slimes is A-OK with The Smirking Chimp posting full-text articles more than a year AFTER the "decision" by their pet judge. ;-)

As an update to my PREVIOUS documentation (on 12/3/01) of this fact, once again, for the record, MANY left-wing websites have been posting (and CONTINUE to post) full-text articles from the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post - apparently with the knowledge and consent of those corporations.

And this practice continues, as recently as TODAY. See, for instance, an Los Angeles Times article by John Balzar called "Out of Step, but With a Big Swagger" posted online in all of its copyrighted FULL TEXT glory at:

www.Smirkingchimp.com

[mafree]

FReep on! GO JEB!

[American Preservative]

Wow, RonDog! Good work! : )

Post #135 FYI ping.

[ladyinred]

Great article, but FreeRepublic will not die!
I am amazed at how objective this article was however! This was written by a journalist?

[nutmeg]

Great find, ElRushbo!

[nutmeg]

Free Republic bills itself as a "loosely organized group of grassroots Americans who support the constitution and look for honesty, integrity and honor from those in government." Nice PR. Really, this staunchly conservative activist group's popularity and fondness for a good battle have turned quite a few heads on Capitol Hill. Active members, who call themselves FReepers, include Dr. Alan Keyes, Gary Aldrich, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Congressman Bob Barr and Matt Drudge. In its fifth year, the Free Republic has grown to over 60,000 members with chapters all over the country. The crux of their movement is Freerepublic.com, a massive forum-driven website where the pseudo-militant grassroots conservatives can convene to pontificate at the virtual podium on the devious workings of government and media.

Any thoughts on this article, fellow pseudo-militant conservatives???