For Those That Have Questioned My Calling Out Freeps For Their Lies...

[DistressedAmerican]

I have been told that I should just ignore the smears. I have been told that you will never get anywhere with freeps. That is just plain WRONG. Believe it or not SOME freeps really do want to argue based on facts (I have seen it). When what they are repeating are lies that they have internalized uncritically, they BELIEVE they are right. Stepping up and debunking these lies IS THE THING TO DO. It was certainly news to these folks that they had been made liars of by one of their own.

In this thread on LU, I thoroughly debunked their favorite long time lie that has been spread about me, namely that I ever called the troops baby killers or advocated spitting on them. These lies were so well ingrained and accepted over there that they are regularly cited as the basis for my banning at the site.

He is over there right this minute trying to defend himself. Typical guilty person under questioning, he "doesn't remember" rewriting my post. He does not remember why he never provided a link to the message so everyone could see it was a lie. He just can't recall. Maybe he should retire and go spend more time with his family.

http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=60876&subForumID=197875&action=viewTopic&commentID=4966224&topicPage=

(If you do not want to dig through it in detail, the bulk of the real progress was made in the last 2 or 3 pages of replies.)

In the end, I received the APOLOGIES of several of the freeps that had attacked me most vocally on the charge. After several hours of back and forth and them trying to disprove my claims unsuccessfully, they admitted the were wrong, apologized and are now looking for the poster at their site who violated the rules by changing the content of my post and claiming it was my own words. That may well be a banning offense for the person in question.

Hopefully the mods there will reinstate my account as I have completely demonstrated that I did not write what I was allegedly banned for.

As someone else noted on a related thread, had Kerry stood up the baseless attacks of the swifties, they could have been debunked and Kerry would likely be president right now. Let this be a lesson, never allow wingers to smear when you have the facts on your side. Make your stand, and school them. Stop them in their fucking tracks. Otherwise, they will just keep it up.

Hopefully they will look at the other things this individual posted to determine if this was a pattern of lies or was it just this one attack on me.

Saludos to those of you freeps that have owned up to the lies you have been (I believe) unknowingly repeating. That deserves some respect.

On edit, added the update on the offender's weak ass defense. Hope his ass gets banned. He made his buddies look like idiots for the past 4 months with his lies.