Visited Freeperworld for the 1st time

[brainwashed_youth]

and it didn't quite make my skin crawl like that Aryan nation website I went to the other day...but ya, those people are wackos. They're actually trying to justify the patriot act

[RoeBear]

1. I've tried to read their message board...

...but I find the layout very difficult to follow.

[Faygo Kid]

2. Want the Freepers to make your skin crawl? Visit this thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1058816/posts

[Endangered Specie]

3. or just the homepage

The 5th annual REPUDIATION OF JESSE JACKSON...
ON MLK day no less.

[salinen]

4. What happens to a person

who believes their way is the only way, but the entire world opposes that belief? Insanity.

[lovedems]

5. That is the definition of an idealogue.

However, if you oppose their belief, you oppose them and they DO NOT listen to others who have a difference of opinion. They know everything and don't need to listen to anyone else.

Those are the ones who are "leading this country" right now so it's not what happens to a person, but what happens to a country.

[salinen]

8. Yes love

That is the way of the current leaders. It reminds me of a born-again who told me that if they were not being opposed, then they were doing something wrong.

[Cannikin]

6. I cant believe what I just read....

"The only way to obtain more black votes is to put them all on the Federal payroll. It is time they started voting for something besides handouts."

"Thank you protesters for making the South look uncivilized to the world. Plays right up to the stereotype crowd."

"Blacks won't leave the Democrat plantation in any serious numbers."

"Apart from Hillary, few people have made a bigger career out of being a cuckold than Coretta.
Just for laughs I'd like to get my hands on a copy of the FBI audiotape made while the ol' Reverend was boinking Another Woman Not His Wife."

"Bush should have never went there. This is just pandering to the black vote. The Kings have never worked an honest day in their lives. They do not deserve to be honored."

"Boooooooooooooooooooo Booooooooooooooooooooo Boooooooooooooooooo. No Blood for oil. Mo Money for ma beeatch. We have regressed to a bunch of puddle monkies waiting for the next rainstorm. I give up.

50 posted on 01/15/2004 5:26:49 PM PST by (removed) (Use to be liberal and have seen the light) "

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I had to stop at that point.

[brainwashed_youth]

10. and we're accused of being racists...

ya, sure whatever. seriously this makes me want to :puke:

[lovedems]

12. OMFG! I am speechless, utterly speechless. They must be Mann Coulter

fans because that is "his" kind of hate speech. Oh, I can't believe it. Makes me bow my head in disappointment that these people call themselves americans.

[BrotherBuzz]

15. That thread really turned my stomach!!!

and it still being posted there speaks volumes of the mindset 'over there'. Heck, Bush* supports it so I guess it's okeydokey.

Bush orders settlement to conservative GOP website by City of Fresno

<snip>
The City of Fresno has announced it is paying a large settlement to the "FreeRepublic", a right wing conservative website/forum to set tle a lawsuit filed by Freerepublic alledging defamation and damage of reputation. Some background on the case:

The case FreeRepublic vs. City of Fresno stems from a bulletin sent to Fresno Police by Fresno Human Relations Commissioner Debbie Reyes rega rding an event planned on sept. 13th by the Fresno chapter of FreeRepublic Network. This event, billed by Freerepublic as a picnic/rally was a subject of concern to Re yes as she had been made aware of possible counter-protests to thepicnic/rally by activists critical of FreeRepublic Network's harrassment of anti-war activists and general right-wing extremist nature. Ms. Reyes faxed a notice to police that there might be possible conflicts at the event and notified them that FreeRepublic was well known as an organized hate group disguising themselves as patriotic americans. This notice and resulting publicity resulted in the lawsuit naming City of Fresno, Debbie Reyes, and Mayor Alan Autry as defendants. They alledged Reyes fax resulted in defamation and f iled suit seeking $1,000,000 compensation.

The very very strange thing in all this is George Bush met with Fresno Mayor Alan Autry on 10/15/2003 and there is good r eason to believe this lawsuit by the FreeRepublic Network was the main topic of conversation between the two. The FreeRepublic online forum is a darling centerpiece of the GOP party, the largest and most highly trafficked GOP oriented website in existence. Progressive activists have long suspected FreeRepublic receives under the table covert funding directly or indirectly from the GOP party. So it is quite likely and plausible that when Autry met with Bush and discussed this with him Bush told him to pay off these good old-boy conservatives and get some funds into their hands so they can cont inue their fight against the left and all things progressive.
<more>

www.indybay.org/news/2004/01/1667532.php˙

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. Argh, their format is so icky, that unles there is something

postedhere on DU, I never go there on my own.

Yucko.

[underseasurveyor]

9. I don't go there either.....eeewwww

The few times I have gone it took a whole gallon of bleach poured over my head to rid myself of their stench.......yuk

[beawr]

11. My Impressions of the Freepers is that:

They do have a range of people, but for the most part, they are less witty, less creative, less FABULOUS...oh wait, we're the folks that like urbanity and diversity and are a LOT LESS FRIGHTENED OF THE POWERLESS.

I really do not understand whay ANYONE making less than $200K per year would be Republican, well I do understand, but I really do hate the fear that fuels these folks.

[caledesi]

13. They are definitely "whack-jobs" and don't represent the average Repug.

In fact, if you go there from time to time, which I do, there are VERY few old-timers. New people who are fundies, radicals etc.

Very sick

[ElsewheresDaughter]

14. now go bathe in clorox...

[NoPasaran]

17. ...and burn your clothes.

[citizen snips]

16. Their message board sucks.

It is so unorganized.