FreeRepublic has finally gotten an OCILLA registration at the copyright office, so that should discourage any future legal disputes. Anyone who wants to sue FR now must first send a DMCA takedown notice first, which will allow FR to delete the disputed article and avoid litigation.
FR needs some backup though, as long as the Demwits are in charge — I suggest compiling a search-engine-derived archive of basically identical violations of the copyright act that the plaintiffs haven’t done anything about, just to show that it’s an (possibly actionable) campaign against FR’s very existence, which it is clear that it is. Stuff removed here routinely doesn’t get removed elsewhere, and stays up for years. Either the plaintiffs are or are not interested in copyright enforcement. Thanks HAL9000.