THE EQUININE DERRIERE
AWARD’S SECOND HONORED RECIPIENT:
JIM ROBINSON, OWNER
Until last week, I
considered myself a proud member of FreeRepublic.com, a conservative forum for
news and discussion. Most of the
conservatives I met on the site had thinking very close to my own, and I felt
like I had found a treasure trove of brothers and sisters. I even donated to the latest call for
money. Boy, what a mistake.
At the time, I
didn’t know about FreeRepublic’s dark secret – the
crazy Uncle in the attic. Well actually,
the crazy uncle is the owner and operator of FreeRepublic,
one Jim Robinson, who I was to find out is a nutcase
and tyrant who brooks no variance from whatever he considers to be “the truth.” My error was in defending the South in a
couple of discussions related to the so-called Civil War.
In one case, the
Yankee I was arguing with called me a Konfederate
Kool-Aid drinker, and it was obvious that the K’s
were to designate the Ku Klux Klan. I
told him he was a bigot to even suggest such a thing. Apparently, Big Brother Jim Robinson was
watching, but it took the second discussion for him to kick me off the forum. On the 4th of July, some liberal
troll posted Frederick Douglas’s lament about “What is the Fourth of July to
the Slave?” Basically, my response was
“Who cares?” Slavery has been over for a
long time and the posting was an unnecessary dampener for our Fourth of July
spirits. It is a common liberal trick –
bring up slavery on the Fourth of July to remind us that we are not a great
nation after all, but evil former slave owners.
The idea is to wear away at our faith and belief in our country. I wouldn’t stand for it, and told the poster
that slavery was the result of impersonal forces over three millennia, had to
be understood in the context of its times and that, yes, it was evil, but now
it’s gone and there is nothing positive to be gained by bringing it up on the
Fourth of July.
Somehow the cretinous owner of FreeRepublic
put two and two together and got five, and believed that I was an advocate of
slavery, because he then kicked me off the board. I wrote to him demanding to know why I was
the victim of so capricious and frivolous an action, but he would only respond
in grunting generalities, stating that I wanted to “deny freedom to others” and
was using “twisted thinking.” Again I
asked for a specific example and received none.
It seems Jim Robinson is not overly bright, informed or articulate, as
he was completely unable to verbalize any clear reason for my dismissal. I told him that if he could not argue any
better than that, he ought to stay away from his own forums, lest he be eaten
alive. Indeed, I will say so openly
right now for the entire world to see:
if I ever debated Jim Robinson on any subject you may choose, save that
of being a cretinous moron (his only field of
expertise), I would whip his ass so bad he would cry for his mama. Jim Robinson is an intellectual pantywaist.
What Jim should
have done was to reinstate me and apologize for insulting me; but Jim Robinson
is no gentleman. I pointed out to him
that he had seriously misjudged me, but the more I pointed out the injustice of
his booting me, the angrier he became.
Jim had made up his mind and did not want to be confused with the
facts. It is clear that Confederate
descendants and Civil War buffs who favor the South are not welcome at
FreeRepublic.com, because we obviously must believe in slavery. Presumably, if one has a scholarly discussion
on cannibalism, old Jim would conclude they must be Hannibal Lecter, or if they discuss auto mechanics, Jimbo might mistake them for a transmission right out of a
Ford Pickup. His deep intellect is truly
cause for awe and wonder. Let me spell it out for you,
Jim: intellectual discussion and debate
over the meaning and causes of the American Civil War, or of the causes,
practices and history of American slavery do not translate into a modern
advocacy of slavery, any more than a discussion of 18th Century medical
practices translates into an advocacy of blood-letting and leeches for modern
hospitals. Got it,
Jimmy? Right now Jim Robinson is reading
these words and saying “DUU-UU-UUH!”
I looked around the
internet and asked around conservative circles, and learned that Jim Robinson
has become increasingly irrational and tyrannical over the past few months,
even since he got his butt successfully sued by two major newspapers for
posting their copyrighted material without permission. A Salon article from 1999 particularly takes
Jim Robinson to task, noting that early supporters of
Nowadays Jim
Robinson regularly goes through his membership and performs cyber-purges of any
and all who voice opinions he either doesn’t understand or agree with. He’s hyper-sensitive to any liberal
criticisms about the “far right,” as if that fact would somehow gain him
respect among the Neo-Bolsheviks. His
purges have been so extensive that old Jimbo has even
posted a justification on his board making it clear that Free Speech at FreeRepublic is not guaranteed. It’s obvious that the little man loves the
feeling of power that derives from his powers of cyber-banishment. He may not be able to argue in his own
forums, he may not even understand the argument, but by gosh he can fix you
pointy-headed intellectuals by hitting the “member delete” key.
FreeRepublic claims to be
“protecting the Constitution,” but apparently only as it pertains to Jim
Robinson. Either that,
or it’s the Constitution of Uzbekistan and not that of the
First off, FreeRepublic is funded strictly through donations from the
Conservative community, without whom it would be nothing but magnetic impulses
stored on a hard drive. Rabid Robinson
may not realize it, but FreeRepublic is really a
partnership – of him for keeping the software and server up and running, and
everyone for posting the news articles and comments. The Conservative community writes and posts
the material, funds the forum and does most of the work. When Conservatives are regularly treated to
rude, boorish and heavy-handed caprice like described above, then old Jim-Bob
has broken the unspoken contract. He has
betrayed the faith and trust of the community that supports his operation.
For these reasons I
am asking all Conservatives to stay away from FreeRepublic.com, and do not give
crazy Uncle Jim any more money. The only
thing I will give Jim now is the one-fingered salute and this month’s very
special Equinine Derriere Award. Have someone translate it for you Jim.
HORSE’S PATOOTIE OF
Indeed,
there is plenty of evidence that it is NOT so, since the minutes and newspaper
articles of the time, plus testimony of the author of the 1956 bill to change
the flag, all point to Southern pride and heritage as the ONLY reasons for the
flag change.
However,
two years ago, the anti-flaggers arm-twisted a very
old man, Denmark Groover, floor leader of 1956, to
publicly state that he had “probably” used
race as a factor in persuading the Legislature to pass the 1956 flag bill. (Where are the minutes that support this,
Cynthia? They don’t exist, do they?)
Pretty thin evidence, but we are supposed to accept this in spite of far more
persuasive evidence to the contrary. You
see, Cynthia is one of those privileged few whose delicate sensibilities must
take precedence over the great majority of Georgians simply because of her skin
color, which makes her exempt from criticism and requires that her opinions on
race be taken as gospel, without question.
But not here, Cynthia. Here we recognize you for what you are: an inveterate and unprincipled liar. We are going to have a vote on the
I
am old enough to remember 1956. I
remember liberal