Reply #26: Call me the leader of the banned [View All]

I became a 'member' (that is to say, I first had posting privileges) at Free Republic back in 1996 -- before it even called itself "Free Republic.'

It was the "Whitewater Forum" back in those days, but they had to change the name when their witch hunt fizzled out.

I stayed a member under that first name for four years, only posting now and then, keeping a low profile, only occasionally provoking the malcontents over there by pointing out what the actual facts about some things were.

When I finally started speaking my mind (posting replies) regularly, they didn't know what to do with me, since my sign-up date pre-dated most of theirs. So they let me go for a while.

For the next six months, I tripped them with the truth so often, a bunch of of them finally convinced Rimjob to ban me. On the day that happened, there was a thread of over 100 posts celebrating my banning. (I wondered what took them so long.)

Since then, I've been banned at least six times, sometimes on the same day I signed up. The longest I've been able to last is a couple of months. So alert are those poor goofs to 'unmutual thinking,' I'm now identified right away as a "troll" and quickly evicted.

A 'troll' is a poster on Free Republic who tries to make Freepers confront an uncomfortable truth - or at least consider a variant point of view.

But I take pride in knowing that I never broke a single one of Rimjob's posting rules; never used profanity, called anyone a name, stated an untruth, or violated a single policy.

I played by all the rules; the only thing I ever did was have a different point of view -- but, to a Freeper, that's a firing squad offense.

At least, back when I was first banned from Free Republic, Free Republic was worth being banned from. These days that forum sucks so badly, who cares what they're thinking?