Report of Member purges at FR denied by Jim Robinson

[GeorgeBushytail]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1341266/posts

Jim Robinson, head of Free Republic, just posted an article from
http://www.theconservativevoice.com which starts:

"The shot heard around the Internet has been fired on FreeRepublic.com The owner Jim Robinson and his moderators have launched a sniper style purge against members that disagree with the President’s ‘guest worker’ amnesty or support more control of illegal immigration."

Mr. Robinson answers the charges by saying he is keeping vigilantism at bay. Anyone know about this?

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Hopefully he will see the brown shirts in his midts

Not holding my breath either

[Cocoa]

2. I love it

freeper vs. freeper. :-)

[stillcool]

3. Does this mean they're coming here?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. In the grand repuke tradition...

Once they figure they have won it all and completely beaten us down, they start disemboweling each other.

It sure beats watching a monkey fuck a bowling ball, for puretee fun.

[KissMeKate]

5. repug meme- shut up and sit down! Tow the line!

eom

[Ian David]

10. Let me get this straight. They disagree on ONE policy and they're GONE?

So if they say, "I love Bush. He is the best president ever! I'd vote for him again! But oh, I disagree with his guest worker plan. But otherwise, Bush rocks!"

If they say that, they're considered anti-freeper traitors and banished to a half-existence on the Yahoo! boards?

[tsuki]

26. While we agree on one issue. We don't like Bushco. HA!

[Roland99]

19. "Toe the line", you mean.

:)

[KissMeKate]

yes :)

[Roland99]

23. heh heh...don't mean to be a spelling Nazi

:)

[GeorgeBushytail]

6. What is the "Minuteman Project"?

The scariest thing I read is from post 78 in that thread:

"Thanks for the explanation Jim. The flaming here on FR has been getting a bit overwhelming as of late.

Also, this so-called "Minuteman Project", was very concerning to me too. While I'm sympathetic to the objectives of getting control of our borders, we have got to work within the system, not outside it. If we ever want to control our borders, we have to apply pressure to our congresspeople, not go "hunting" on the southern border."

Hunting on the southern border??? What the hell is going on over there?

[htuttle]

8. Google on 'vigilante mexican border' for the scoop

Here's one that seems relatively informative:
http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=27327

Summary quote from above link:

Riding in all-terrain vehicles or on horseback, dressed in military uniforms or as ranchers, their members search for immigrants in desert areas, which are the least heavily monitored.

When they come across immigrants, who usually travel in small groups, and have beaten, threatened and sometimes even fired warning shots at them, the vigilantes force them to head to areas where the border patrol is certain to find and apprehend them.

Ray Borane, the mayor of Douglas, Arizona, said the Minutemen are not welcome in his town, because they are ”white supremacists, racists and very dangerous people.”

[Sparkle]

22. Isn't FR the site where a lot of their members were visited

by the FBI for making threats against Democrats?

[madrchsod]

9. local landowners , farmers ,and others

have formed their own border patrol and surveillance planes,etc. to patrol their land and shoot illegals caught on their property. these people are fairly organized and given their location hard to stop...

[madrchsod]

7. shit- he`ll lose half his

members. i`m sure stormfront will be happy to pick up the people who will be purged

[Ian David]

11. It would be a very bad time for him to have new dissenting members joining

[stanwyck]

12. as the freeps lose their jobs

they're going to lose their faith in all their fearless leaders who have been drenching them in propaganda for the last few years. At some point, even these folks are going to notice that, yes, Rush is getting richer, and so is Sean, and Bill...but, guess what? The poor saps listening to them are getting poorer and poorer. It takes a while, they're hard-headed, but, finally, they'll realize they've been taken. Poor little freepers.

[Carni]

13. They'll all have to defect to libertypost.org lol

I am not a fan of the sentiments expressed on LP but there are at least a good number of so called Conservatives there who don't like Bush.

[frictionlessO]

14. geeze and to think when someone here advocates some sort of "dirty"

thing....

Those people over there are just fucked... they are terrorists in white mens clothing.

How can anyone over there believe they are on the side of peace and compassion when all they wanna do is kill people?!!

Sick twisted and the perversion of peace... Favorite flavor of Kool Aid at FR?? Its a toss up between PNACaberry and Neocon Punch.

[GeorgeBushytail]

15. Disgruntled Freepers forum on Americans for Legal Immigration site

I followed links to:

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-244.html

It's fun to watch the right begin to eat itself as we Dems come together under new, focused leadership.

[Village Idiot]

16. I have been banned for "Ant-Americanism" for two years...

seems RimJob doesn't appreciate free speech...go figure...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

17. Call Me Naive..

But if the head of free republic opposes nativism and xenophobia isn't that a good thing...

[KissMeKate]

24. we are making fun of his attempts to censor a popular repug belief

one popular amongst repugs, that is.

Its like him trying to censor people who advocated against socialism on a conservative website.

[Cooley Hurd]

18. "Pundit Payola" comes to internet message boards...

Has RimJob received a check from the WH for his help in steering the immigration message?:shrug::o

[Just Me]

20. Oh, wouldn't that just take the cake: RimJob gets WH $$$!!!! n/t

[Strelnikov_]

21. This Is THE Issue That Could Bring The GOP Down

As we all know, a majority of those who support the GOP could not give a damn for anyone but themselves. As long as Our Leader is blowin’ up brown people good, and comin’ down good on librals, gays and all other strawmen that the propaganda ministry throws up, they are happy.

Thing is, the vast majority of this demographic is middle class and below. They need jobs just like their counterparts on the left to maintain some semblance of their current life. The Oligarchy, however, would prefer to throw the borders open, resulting in an unlimited labor supply to depress wages, environmental regulation and workplace safety, to create a North American ‘China Miracle’ .

My concern with unlimited immigration is that we are a nation of limited resources, and jobs, and unlimited immigration would result in a race to the bottom in wages and a crash in living standards. I would prefer a planned ‘Powerdown’, or gradual decline in growth, living standards and resource consumption to bring about a fair distribution of wealth with our fellow humans in other countries. That is, a gradual decline versus a crash.

Of course, my ‘Powerdown’ would take some sacrifice. Freepers know nothing of sacrifice, fairness, or other humans not of their race, religion and political beliefs. They will just see themselves losing jobs to ‘brown people’, and will be looking for someone to blame. Of course, they will be blaming the ‘brown people’ first, but will also rally to anyone taking harsh measures against these immigrants.

Hence, the GOP will have a Catch-22 on their hands. Support unlimited immigration to please their masters and lose a good part of their base to a more radical right-wing party, thus splitting the vote. Or support limited immigration, with the GOP politicians who oppose the Oligarchy’s imigration policy losing monetary support, and therefore their office.

[Ian David]

25. Or the "Guest Worker Visa" which takes social security from their pay...

and then kicks them out of the country before they're eligible to collect it.

That is, if someone up to their armpits every day in pesticide-soaked tomatoes would live long enough to collect it.

[tsuki]

27. My problem with open borders are the criminals and possibly, the

terrorists that cross.

[megatherium]

28. from a former Freeper, this is disappointing news --

Free Republic used to pride itself on being open to all conservative points of view. Pro-immigration and anti-immigration debates were common, as were pro-war in Iraq and anti-war in Iraq debates. Libertarians would upbraid the more vociferous anti-gay religious posters, and there were more than a few freepers who opposed the war on drugs. I respected FR for that reason; I was willing to put up with the screaming bigots to get a lot of interesting opinions and information.

But starting a year or two ago, it became clear that FR was uniformly pro-war in Iraq. I thought this was an artifact of the election, as freepers closed ranks around their candidate.

I stopped reading FR months ago because I finally couldn't take the bigotry anymore. They do a good job of keeping overt racism and anti-Semitism off the board -- but gays were open-season. Every slander possible against gays were incessantly repeated.