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Title: Attention 4um Members
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Published: May 4, 2008
Author: me
Post Date: 2008-05-04 22:40:24 by christine
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Views: 31482
Comments: 655

I have to be honest, I'm completely distressed at what's happened to this forum. The fighting and the distrust between those for and those against Obama has gotten to the point where, in my opinion, it's destroying the forum. What's the point of having an open free speech venue when everyone is bozo'ing everyone else?

When I read my mission statement and what Freedom4um was created to be, I don't even recognize the place anymore. There will be changes made in the near future as I decide what is best for the continued growth of this forum.

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#576. To: Jethro Tull (#575)

Iran, with it's neighbors all beat to shit, will be the big boy on the block.

Which makes it all the more desirable to negotiate with her.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2008-05-06   17:01:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#577. To: aristeides (#572)

It's quite possible.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2008-05-06   17:02:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#578. To: ghostdogtxn (#522)

A lot of time on your hands, I see.

Actually, yes. But looking that up didn't take much time. I just wouldn't want some unsuspecting person getting a fine or worse believing he had a valid legal argument which would hold up in court.

nolu_chan  posted on  2008-05-06   17:14:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#579. To: IndieTX (#561)

Wait a damn minute here. FOH spams this forum incessantly. I portrayed him the way I see it. If he was "clearly only being sarcastic", it escaped my discernment.

Three dots is also a distruptor in my eyes, but certainly not as blatant.

If you have a point of view to share, calling me an idiot is not the most effective way to have a person view your input.

You're not the only one getting peeved here. And if you bothered to read a few of my posts, you would know beyond a doubt that your insinuation that I'm a democrat or Obamaphile is false.

angle  posted on  2008-05-06   17:24:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#580. To: Jethro Tull (#575)

ran, with it's neighbors all beat to shit, will be the big boy on the block.

Some of Iran's neighbors include: Russia, China, Israel, Pakistan. None of them was beat yet and some of them are getting stronger rather than weaker. I don't think even internationalists need to worry much about what's going on half a world away.

Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2008-05-06   17:37:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#581. To: Jethro Tull (#573) (Edited)

With him gone it's mind blowing to me some can opt for a socialist, but it is what it is

Same here, but it's equally mind boggling to me how some former Ron Paul supporters could back a warmongering tool of the neocons like McCain.

I guess it's because there are lots of single issue voters around (Iraq/Iran for supporters of Obama, R2KBA or lower taxes for McCain). I refuse to vote for somebody who promises a little less of a warfare state abroad in exchange for a bigger welfare state at home, just as I'd never go for more wars abroad in exchange for a (slightly) smaller welfare state at home.

Rupert_Pupkin  posted on  2008-05-06   17:54:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#582. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#581)

how some former Ron Paul supporters could back a warmongering tool of the neocons like McCain.

Who?

angle  posted on  2008-05-06   18:09:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#583. To: angle (#582) (Edited)

A few popped up on the "Open letter to Obamaphobes" thread that vast started. I guess they aren't as vocal as the pro-Obama people.

Rupert_Pupkin  posted on  2008-05-06   18:20:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#584. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#583)

Thank you. I'll check it out.

angle  posted on  2008-05-06   18:41:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#585. To: Jethro Tull (#570)

Hey, here's a hypothetical for you

Would Iran welcome a newly elected President Obama with a nuclear enrichment freeze or - more likely - by testing him by moving identifiable Iranian militia units into Basra province on a large scale?

Ummm.... that's not a hypothetical question. A hypothetical question usually presents some abstract circumstances and then asks what you would do in such a situation, not what someone else would do.

What you ask is more of a theoretical question, and in theory, Iran would not change their nuke program plans no matter who was elected. In theory, neither Iranian hardliners that want a confrontation with the west nor the Iranians that want peace would change their tune.

Pinguinite  posted on  2008-05-06   18:57:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#586. To: iconoclast (#430)

career politicians.

C'mon, like Obie isn't?

swarthyguy  posted on  2008-05-06   19:13:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#587. To: ... (#347)

Nope, still three...MUD

Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan and Back to the States,
Localities, and Individuals as Prescribed in the U.S. Constitution!!

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2008-05-06   19:51:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#588. To: Mudboy Slim (#587) (Edited)

Nope, still three...MUD

I'm not going to tell you how I know what your bozo count is, but I'm surprised at this lack you integrity from even someone like you.

Mud, you are a bald faced liar. And I will remember this in all further dealings. Go check your bozo count and come back and tell me that it is less than three. I want to confirm that you are as dishonest as you seem here.

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...  posted on  2008-05-06   20:08:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#589. To: ... (#588)

Nope. three it is, TripleDot.

Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan and Back to the States,
Localities, and Individuals as Prescribed in the U.S. Constitution!!

Mudboy Slim  posted on  2008-05-07   7:40:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#590. To: RickyJ, christine, Pinguinite, angle, aristeides, a vast rightwing conspirator, iconoclast, James Deffenbach, Peppa, Jethro Tull (#484)

Thank you all for your comments.

Mr. aristeides,

While it's true that American gun ownership has served the nation well as a deterrent to foreign invasion (the Japanese considered and rejected the idea because of the 2nd amendment), a quick scan of gun and trade publications and websites will reveal that sadly, the majority of the writers and contributors are using the flag as a blindfold. And, too many accept govt propaganda (as relayed by the official stenos at FOX) at face value and many still believe (or refuse to admit error and admit otherwise) that we are keeping America safe by committing war crimes against other nations and people.

The fact that we have a 2nd amendment right does not mean that we are still morally entitled to it.

America is not the beacon of liberty we were taught to believe in as children, and through a slow but effective process (like water eroding granite) we have been fenced in and corrupted to conditions of intellectual bankruptcy and moral compromise.

Because there is no historical precedent (the conquering of a truly free nation with psychological manipulation instead of cannon fire, and control of everything we see, read and hear (and we on the net can certainly hear footsteps) instead of concentration camps, it remains to be seen if the enemies of liberty can succeed.

It is my belief that folks in other places who lost their freedoms long before us who scoff and attempt to shame and humiliate us are silent co-conspirators, and they cannot claim the moral high ground in their hope that the flame of liberty will be extinguished once and for all.

Some would rather see America fall than to witness it's salvation by gun owners.

But, with all of our problems, we'll never be ashamed to look those cowards in the eye.

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2008-05-07   18:36:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#591. To: HOUNDDAWG (#590)

It is my belief that folks in other places who lost their freedoms long before us who scoff and attempt to shame and humiliate us are silent co-conspirators

That's a keeper, Dawg.

Wicked laws cannot be administered impartially - and that is exactly what gun control is: wicked. When a politician or anybody else supports gun control, it is good cause to be afraid of them because they probably have something else up their sleeve. If politicians aren't doing things to law-abiding citizens they shouldn't be, they have no reason in the world to be afraid of them.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2008-05-07   19:13:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#592. To: Jethro Tull (#591)

It wasn't to long ago that the British police didn't even carry guns.

Old Friend  posted on  2008-05-07   19:21:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#593. To: Old Friend (#592)

It also wasn't long ago that Britain was a homogeneous nation. The birth nation of 'Free Trade' is now a multicultural wasteland. What Hitler couldn't destroy will bombings and blockades, will be taken down by from within by unfettered immigration.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2008-05-07   19:26:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#594. To: Jethro Tull (#593)

The hordes came after all.

buckeye  posted on  2008-05-07   19:28:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#595. To: buckeye (#594)

Yep. They were invited, as they are here. The PTB have taken the principle of forced school busing and applied it to nations.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2008-05-07   19:34:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#596. To: Jethro Tull (#595)

It's no wonder they didn't want the John Birch society talking about Jewish influence.

buckeye  posted on  2008-05-07   19:36:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#597. To: HOUNDDAWG (#590)

Some would rather see America fall than to witness it's salvation by gun owners.

Outstanding post Dawg.

I see gun-grabbers this way. They want us to forsake a right given to mankind. The right to self-defense.

It's not theirs to take.

Peppa  posted on  2008-05-07   19:55:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#598. To: Peppa (#597)

The seminal gun grabbers are mainly intending to disarm the holdovers from the culture they've already obliterated in other ways.

buckeye  posted on  2008-05-07   19:57:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#599. To: buckeye (#598)

The seminal gun grabbers are mainly intending to disarm the holdovers from the culture they've already obliterated in other ways.

And we know where this leads.

Peppa  posted on  2008-05-07   20:22:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#600. To: Peppa (#599)

So far it's just been the tragic deaths of innocents, such as Mrs. Weaver and her son.

buckeye  posted on  2008-05-07   20:27:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#601. To: Jethro Tull (#591)

If politicians aren't doing things to law-abiding citizens they shouldn't be, they have no reason in the world to be afraid of them.

And, there it is.

I have nothing to add to that.

Thanks, JT.

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2008-05-08   4:25:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#602. To: Peppa (#597)

I see gun-grabbers this way. They want us to forsake a right given to mankind. The right to self-defense.

It's not theirs to take.

Roger that.

And to their cowardly collaborators I say, "It's not your right to forfeit for the rest of us".

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2008-05-08   4:27:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#603. To: Old Friend (#592)

It wasn't to long ago that the British police didn't even carry guns.

That's right. They now know that they're about 20 years behind us, as their former colonials riot and murder police and civilians alike as immigrant syndicates cultivate sophisticated networks that traffic in illegal weapons, mainly from former Warsaw Pact countries. (The eastern bloc also had strict gun laws and they have millions of illegal weapons for sale to prove it.)

But, even when things were supposedly rosy in the UK they led the world in home invasions against homeowners who were known to be unarmed, (It's against the law to resist robberies or even sexual assaults, lest Brits think they have rights that govt and criminals are bound to respect like we, their missing link American cousins) and maiming with beer mugs kept re-constructive (plastic) surgeons in great demand then, and even forced a change to "less dangerous" beer mugs used in pubs. So, Brits were "more civilized" because their barroom brawlers blinded their weaker and less violent victims and left them resembling The Elephant Man, and the perps many of who are practiced in the art of destroying lives were secure in the knowledge that they wouldn't be shot for their trouble, and that they, the hairy knuckled goons ruled that country.

And, in England the frustration of living under oppressive govt manifested in the form of the pathologically violent, British soccer fan. Where else in the world do whites riot for no good reason and in general "ape" the behavior of those "hot-blooded other people"?

The effect of stripping Brits of their natural right to defense of life and property is, they're responding the way "equal" animals in over crowded cages do.

Welcome to ANIMAL FARM, where some are more equal than others.

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2008-05-08   5:18:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#604. To: HOUNDDAWG (#603)

It's against the law to resist robberies or even sexual assaults

I don't believe that.

Maybe against the law to own a gun and shoot them.

But a lady being raped doesn't have to just sit there and say dammit I can't resist it's against the law.

Old Friend  posted on  2008-05-08   6:55:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#605. To: Old Friend (#604)

I don't believe that.

Maybe against the law to own a gun and shoot them.

But a lady being raped doesn't have to just sit there and say dammit I can't resist it's against the law.

"Here are the basic rules for self-defense in Britain:

You are permitted to protect yourself with a briefcase, a handbag, or keys. You should shout “Call the Police” rather than “Help.” Bystanders are not to help. They have been taught to leave such matters to the professionals. If you manage to knock your attacker down, you must not hit him again or you risk being charged with assault.

A homeowner who discovered two robbers in his home held them with a toy gun while he telephoned the police. When the police arrived they arrested the two men, and also the homeowner, who was charged with putting someone in fear with a toy gun. An elderly woman who scared off a gang of youths by firing a cap pistol was charged with the same offense.

How did it come to this? How were the British lulled into giving up what Americans regard as an essential right? The Cato Institute identifies these steps in the process:

* 1920: Law introduced requiring certification every 3 years of necessity of owning a gun * 1937: “Necessity” redefined to discourage home or personal protection * 1953: Prevention of Crime Act passed - outlaws carrying any article for an “offensive purpose.” * 1964: “Necessity” redefined to exclude home or personal protection * 1967: Criminal law revised to allow only “reasonable” force in self-defense. Protection of property is considered unreasonable."

http://geoff82.wordpress.com/2006/11/27/the-right-to-self-defense/

You may not intimidate criminals with replica firearms, and there are cases where homeowners/victims of violence have been prosecuted for prevailing over their attackers.

Because weapons are the only reasonable way for all women (who should be guaranteed equal treatment and therefore equal protection under the law-the law cannot favor muscular Amazons with martial arts training) to resist attackers, it is clear that the rights of criminals have been elevated over the rights of victims in the UK.

Please do a little research before you post so that in the future you'll understand the difference between believing something is true, and knowing something is true.

Or, if you wish for me to educate you, then ask politely instead of issuing a surly challenge.

Bullies deserve no courtesy, and your ignorance is not my fault.

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2008-05-08   8:16:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#606. To: HOUNDDAWG (#602)

And to their cowardly collaborators I say, "It's not your right to forfeit for the rest of us".

That's it right there! !!!!

Peppa  posted on  2008-05-08   9:58:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#607. To: Pinguinite (#482)

Hate to say this, but the last time a depression hit, government nannyism when into hyperdrive.

That's right. And this time will be no exception.

ratcat  posted on  2008-05-09   0:41:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#608. To: ... (#347)

#347. To: Mudboy Slim (#341)

Nope...three bozos total...MUD You're a liar here. I know five who have you on Bozo and I know there are more.

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... posted on 2008-05-05 17:07:44 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit

Triple Dots:

How do you know how many bozo's -MUD- has?

Jethro Tull  posted on  2008-05-12   8:29:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#609. To: Pinguinite, All (#608)

Ping to #608

Jethro Tull  posted on  2008-05-12   8:30:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#610. To: Pinguinite, ... (#609)

#608

Jethro Tull  posted on  2008-05-12   11:26:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#611. To: Jethro Tull (#610)

I saw your ping. I don't know why you're pinging me. As with most disputes on 4um, I'm not involved.

Pinguinite  posted on  2008-05-12   11:32:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#612. To: Jethro Tull (#608)

How do you know how many bozo's -MUD- has?

I conducted a poll. Why?

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...  posted on  2008-05-12   11:33:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#613. To: robin, christine (#348)

"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡

ghostdogtxn  posted on  2008-05-14   17:58:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#614. To: Jethro Tull (#608)

"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡

ghostdogtxn  posted on  2008-05-14   17:59:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#615. To: ghostdogtxn (#614)

I decided he's pretty civil for a bought and sold bushbot shill, so I took him off.

What about JCHarris or BOC (??? I almost don't remember that asshole,) ... I have no one on Bozo ... while being bozoed by two pussies !

"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation".

Vladimir Lenin

noone222  posted on  2008-05-14   18:07:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#616. To: ... (#612)

I conducted a poll. Why?

With who, your sock puppets?

Jethro Tull  posted on  2008-05-14   18:12:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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