OK, who shut down FR??

[MercutioATC]

I wanted to see the "Mosh" reaction and they seem to be offline....

..what a shame

:cry:

[flowomo]

1. yep... been tryin for a while to drop in on 'em..... no connect

[miss_kitty]

2. Wow

What a shame! Hope it's not PERMANENT!
:evilgrin:

[Mabus]

3. Maybe someone said something smart and

it blew the system. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[qnr]

14. Sounds verrrrrrrrrry unlikely, on FR :) n/t

[Mabus]

17. I was trying to be sarcastic.

When something smart is said on there it is usually a covert DU'er who can't take it anymore and sets them straight.

[qnr]

19. Yes, I knew, I was being sarcastic about them too :) n/t

[qnr]

4. Or they added a spelling checker, and it overloaded the system. n/t

[MercutioATC]

5. Now THAT'S funny!

...and probably accurate.

[qnr]

9. heheh

I used to run my IRC logs through a spelling checker, it said we were operating on a second grade level, so I suppose I shouldn't make fun of them :)

[JimmyJazz]

6. oh what a snarky and oh so accurate post!

[qnr]

7. I do so try :) n/t

[Gothic Sponge]

8. Here is the message i get from FR

http://www.shartwell.freeserve.co.uk/folder404/no-intelligence.htm

recycled joke ;)

[Emops]

10. Who shut down Free Republic?

God, probably.

[snacker]

11. LOL

[qnr]

13. hahahah n/t

[LoZoccolo]

12. They overloaded the server trying to spin the fact...

...that the bin Laden tape just means that Bush* still hasn't caught him!

[aquart]

15. They may be doing what DU did.

Preparing the site for election day overload.

[Emops]

16. Why so soon?

After all, Freepers, the election isn't until November 3.

[Maiden England]

18. oh no, what a shame!

</sarcasm>

[Mabus]

20. It's back up.

They're talking about going after Chelsea. Called her fair game.

[MercutioATC]

21. I saw...

:evilgrin:

[Mabus]

22. Now I'm freaked out

I was going down one of their pages and someone mentioned a back-up site. I right-clicked on the link and was taken to their nazi land news group.

here's a sampling:

From: <stardora@b...>
Date: Mon Oct 25, 2004 5:54 pm
Subject: What is European America?

White Americans who are conscious of their historic culture, nationality, and civilization are deeply demoralized because it seems that everything is going against them. The pro-minority, race-conscious ideology keeps extending its power over the whole society, even as whites are forced to be rigorously race-blind when it comes to defending their own rights and interests. Also, as I said in my 1990 pamphlet The Path to National Suicide and have been repeating
ever since, whites are intellectually and morally paralyzed by the demographic changes in America that have already occurred. Once America became a conspicuously diverse society beginning in the late 1970s and 1980s, it seemed that any expression of a traditional, white-majoritarian American identity could only be an impotent reaction against what America had already substantively become. Obviously, this problem only increases with the ongoing increase of the non-white population. The difficulties seem insuperable. How can the historic European American identity be claimed as still valid, in an America that is already 30 percent non-white? And what place would non-whites have in such a revived white-majority America? The apparent impossibility of asserting a traditional Anglo-American or Euro-American majority identity in the midst of an extremely multi-racial America has been the greatest inhibiting factor on the
white majority.
The dilemma is not illusory, but neither is it hopeless. European Americans can begin to assert themselves again as a people, and that would alter everything. Of course, the idea of whites expressing themselves as a people is derided as "multiculturalist," especially by neoconservatives. And it's true that in one sense, such an assertion by whites as a group would seem to resemble the multicultural self-assertion of blacks as a group, of Asian-Americans as a group, of Hispanics as a group, and so on. But there are two crucial differences
between the group assertion of minorities, and the group assertion of whites that I propose: European Americans are not a minority group, and they are not seeking special group rights for themselves. They are the historic and existing majority population of this country. Therefore, if and when whites begin acting as a group they would be acting as the majority of America and as the representatives of its historic culture, all of which means that they would be opposing multiculturalism. It would also mean opposing the group-rights system
for minorities that has now been placed in the U.S. Constitution.