FR to be shut down by the Secret Service???

Don't know if this is true or not, but this is quite the discussion you know where. www.freerepublic.com I don't know how to post to the exact thread but it's on the second page.



To: Jim Robinson
FR to be shut down by the Secret Service

Nearly all of the posts they quote on the KOS board were opinions, not threats. A few might be construed as threats, but they are the off hand remark type that was so common about Bush during his administration.

If someone posts death threats on telephone poles.....

.....Do they cut down the telephone poles?

.....NO! They take down the signs and maybe keep an eye out for who hung them.

It seems like shutting down FR would be like cutting down the telephone poles. If they take down this telephone pole, they should take down DU and KOS and ........
76 posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 7:14:47 PM by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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To: Cyman

Stop moving so much, you are blurry and we are on a schedule here...

77 posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 7:15:00 PM by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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To: Jim Robinson
Just read that idiotic thread. Considering the comments made on Koz 7 the DUmp, not to mention Randi Rhodes saying the Cheney should take Bush out on the lake like Michael did with Fredo in the Godfather and (popping sound).

That's kosher.

The comments after Pres Bush flew to Baghdad? Those are kosher.

Call Obama a danger to this country somehow, according to these numpties are akin to threatening him?

Not one of the comments they quoted, indicated ANY threat of violence. But these Stalinists will use any means at their disposal to stifle dissent of any kind. I am truly for my country.
78 posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 7:15:03 PM by sofaman (Moses dragged us through the desert for 40 years to the one place in the ME with no oil - Golda

:scared:

Being interrupted in the middle of dinner to be asked who you will vote for is quite annoying.

:blush:

There's only one thing more dangerous than crazy: Crazy and no outlet for it.

There's no telling where Freepers go when they're on a rampage with no FR to go to.

That was some scary stuff in that Kos post. I've never, EVER seen stuff even close to being that bad here.

kind of post.

He found something at KOS that says fr should be shut down and he blows it up into this.

"I'm so tough they're coming after me - please help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" Is how it reads to me.

YMMV

Braking Hard: Around the Web in 80 Seconds

Then in square brackets he puts {FR to be shut down by Secret Service}

Have fun with google. Careful you don't brake too hard. Could cause you're monitor/screen to deploy the airbag.

LOL

shortly after 9/11. They'll get over it.

Augment that statement. Immediately.

I'm not sure what's there to clarify. We used to irrationally fear that Bush was going to shut down our sites, that he was about to silence us, or declare martial law and end elections, etc. When there's an opposition President, and when he acts forcefully and quickly, it is natural for opposing partisans to feel implacable dread, like their world is coming to an end. Sometimes people voice that dread in reasonable ways (Bush is going to throw this nation into a New Depression, and we'll be regretting him for decades), and sometimes people voice that dread in unrealistic ways (Bush is a fascist and he is going to shut us down).

Obama has launched one of the fastest, farthest-reaching progressive movements in history, from his stimulus bill to his budget. In a way the world of the freepers is ending, much as ours came to an end when Bush started fucking with the Constitution. It's natural for them to react both reasonably (Obama is going to expand government and bring socialist policies to America) and unreasonably (Obama is a Communist and he is going to shut us down).

There were rumblings about "shutting sites down", but I never paid attention to them.

I'm not even sure they knew HOW to shut sites down, with the many ways of getting around 'net censorship, especially in the early 2000's.

And I'm even LESS convinced that "lefties" are running the show now.

We now have the secret OLC memo's that confirm our suspicions. He broke the law. but was too afraid to share his edicts. Remember, the boy-king in 2001 - "It would be easier if I were dictator". This douchebag needs to be held accountable for his crimes against our Constitution.

going from du to our pc's. I still don't think Bush knows what the "internets" is.

An October 2001 memorandum (PDF) by Yoo and special counsel Robert Delahunty, for instance, says that "the president has the legal and constitutional authority to use military force within the United States to respond to and combat future acts of terrorism, and that the Posse Comitatus Act does not bar deployment."

It also envisions the possibility of censorship restrictions that could be slapped on newspapers and the Internet, saying "First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10186374-38.html

Servers of independant media, were shut down.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/11/home_office_fbi_mlat_request/

Also independant radio station in California was also shut down Oct 01 2004
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2004/09/111912.shtml

Everyone likes to take on the martyr role every now and again. Helps us feel validated in the face of overwhelming unpopularity, I suppose.

I thought high school was the last I'd ever see of that "I'm-so-wounded, no one likes me, I'll hang on a cross" garbage, but no-- it simply gets more and more dramatized the older I get...

It's a great way to get attention from others and have people look at us, but I'll be damned if it doesn't get really old really fast.

:rofl:

Or, maybe he's selling aluminum siding on the side? lol

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199403/

They're going ape shit.

Not very "buy American" now is it... :D

More amusingly, I love it how they claim the MSM media is liberal.

The creep.

These were the same folks who had no problem Bush's domestic surveillance/data gathering programs when Bush in.

"is like being threatened with a gourmet meal by McDonald’s."

Ain't it the truth.....

:rofl:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199403/posts

'BRAKING' HARD!!!!!

:lmao:

Dramatic, n'est pas?

To: Jim Robinson

If you need help moving the severs to an undisclosed offshore location let me know.

3 posted on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 3:57:04 PM by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
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*splort*

I've got a couple of Russian "bulletproof" servers to sell ya then. $100,000 EACH. Cash - upfront, and no refunds!

Too commie for ya?

Ok, then..

Hawkeye-X

:rofl:

Damn, man! If any thread needed links it was this OP.

Link to FR post - "Braking Hard: FR to be shut down by Secret Service" Yes, they even spelled "breaking" wrong - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199403/posts

Link to Kos diary highlighting Freeper insanity - http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/3/3/1615/97986/816/703959

Especially reprehensible snip:



These fools have no concept of the size of the can of Whoop Ass they are playing with.

what the fuck?

but i don't think it should be burned.

"If it doesn't happen because of a flimsy proviso in the post discussed here, then we live in a still more dangerous world."

Sounds like he wants it to happen.

Actually, the morons don't get it. No one here wanted to assassinate Bush...we want him to stand trial for his war crimes. No one wanted to martyr him...that would be counter-productive.

If certain FR-types are threatening the life of Obama, then they need to be locked up.

grokked it.

Helped me to at the same time. :thumbsup:

I want those creepy freaks out in the open where they can be watched, and I want them to have an outlet to wank in to tire them out enough to fall asleep in their spunk-stained barcaloungers without actually bothering to try to hurt anyone for real.

Can't blame the Secret Service, though. I'm glad they take all threats seriously, even the stupid ones.

It's kind of a hobby of the religious right, for complicated historical and theological reasons.

about OMG where will we meet up if the shit hits the fan, Jim? Saddos.

"I am truly for my country"
:rofl:

i highly, highly doubt this.

but it sure would be shooting fish in a barrel to pick off these walter mitty assassins.

perhaps they could do a little better job of moderating this crap.

Free Republic used to be covered under this part of the rules:

"Members are permitted to link to highly partisan conservative websites, provided that they are doing so in the proper context."

I can see that if Free Republic is going to start being an "assassinate Obama" site, the admin attitude to it might change, but if so, I think an official announcement is needed. We've been linking to FR all through the history of DU.

sites that are bigoted and hateful are not allowed.

Are you saying there has been an official change of policy?

If so, it needs to be posted ASAP.

Probably spent it on his numerous health issues. Guess he'll rile up his loyal band of merry idiots on the way out.

they should have money....??

so they can hunker down in an undisclosed area of their Mom's basement.
So sorry, none left over for FR.

:nopity:

Seems like they are always whining for money over there, just like the corporate fat cats they worship so much.

Obama and the Justice Department release Bush memos that illustrate how for the past 8 years our civil liberties were shit all over, but it's Obama who wants to destroy the country by releasing said memos?

Christ almighty. That's stupidity on an astronomical scale.

Don't go there unless you want your IP logged by them.

what nonsense.

Nobody here every threatened Bush. The SS would have been here then, instead of FR.
We really are all about policy, not the personal. (Thank you, Mods)

They are projecting.

I don't know over what, but it did happen.

so I don't think that counts.

I'm still new around here.

Puffing up their own sense of importance, and their delusions of Democrats being totalitarian commies.

Living and not. That doesn't fly here.

Why would they do that when it's easier to monitor them if they leave it up and running?

Plus there's the whole free speech telephone pole argument...lol.

Those Morans, always casting asparagus!!!!!11!!!!

Amnety for Free Republic!!!!2111!!!!!!