Jim Robinson, founder of Free Republic, sounds off occasionally — usually to steer the discussions on the site toward approved talking points.
This morning, however, he gave a little moron-to-moron talk to his flock of Freepers called, Regarding salty talk aimed at the president (or other officials) vs visits from the SS.
He dances around the point delicately, but he's basically asking Freepers to stop threatening the President on his site. Recently, I and other diarists have noted an alarming uptick in the occurrence of violent rhetoric on the site. Commenters in many of these diaries have urge alerting the secret service or FBI. Jim Robinson refers to "visits from the SS" (Secret Service) in general terms, but doesn't say anything about any specific incidents. From personal experience, however, I am fairly certain that he's been spoken to about the content of his site and has been asked (possibly in a friendly way) to see to it that it is toned down.
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The post itself is a hilarious cold war artifact, so here it is in its entirety. I've added emphasis to the part which suggests he's already been through a Secret Service investigation at least once:
Unfortunately, we are saddled with a communist sympathizer in the White House. I don't know whether or not he's an actual card carrying commie, but he's definitely an America-hating, anti-capitalist Marxist leftist who thinks communism is the way to go. Now I remember when America used to fight against communism. It wasn't that long ago. Many of us on FR are veterans of wars against communism and some of us believe that American citizens who are communists are the enemy within, ie, the domestic enemy we've sworn to defend against. American citizen? hmmmm... that may be a loophole for Obama.
At any rate, the oath is to defend our constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. I can imagine that this places an enormous strain on our Secret Service agents. It's obvious to anyone with a brain that Obama is an enemy of the constitution. So should the SS defend the constitution or defend the anti-constitution commie?
So now comes the problem. If you feel it's your duty to call Obama a traitor and use salty language in your proposed resolution, ie, suggest the commie be keelhauled, walked off the plank, run up the yardarm, tarred and feathered and run out of Dodge, etc, etc, etc, you may be facing a visit from your friendly Secret Service. And even though your visiting agent may agree politically, and may take his oath to the constitution seriously, he's still sworn to protect the officeholder and it's his duty to take all threats seriously. And that may include serving me with a subpoena to turn over your IP address. Now I'm duty bound to protect your privacy to the best of my ability, but I cannot defend against stupidity.
Best advice I can give is to keep it to yourself. Don't post anything that may embarrass you later, or end you up in the slammer.
Ever vigilant.
Keep your powder dry.
In the comments, Jim Robinson says that he is asked for information about a poster about "once every four years." Wow, how many times has Kos had to answer to the Secret Service? And we are the un-American ones?
Anyway, no Freepology post would be complete without choice Freeper comments. Let's start off with one from prismsinc:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/3/7/121218/0781
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