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By: JABbering Stooge :: When Radio Rwanda comes home… :: August :: 2008

JABbering Stooge :: When Radio Rwanda comes home… :: August :: 2008 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:31:03 +0000

[...] there was the case of the Freepers literally harassing vote integrity activist Andy Stephenson to death. The denizens of Free Republic, having decided that they don’t like elections that [...]

By: jungle

jungle — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:50:45 +0000

That is an unbelievably sad story. It’s the sort of thing you’d expect to hear out of a dictatorship like Zimbabwe, not the USA.

This vile character from DUFU and his accomplices deserve at the very least to be exposed for what they are in public. I can’t know for sure if there’s a crime been committed, but if even a quarter of what is being claimed is true, if vital medical care was maliciously obstructed in any way, whoever was responsible should be hauled into court and preferably jailed for a very long time. And I’d hope they are already living in fear of the knock on the door. They must know by now what they’ve done.

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:36:24 +0000

Better start threadsucking the relevant Freeper posts before JimRob makes them go away.

By: rachel

rachel — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:05:09 +0000

Oh, and today is the last time I will ever click on a link to DUmmie FUnnies. To know they exist is to despise them.

By: rachel

rachel — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:02:50 +0000

I’m voting for Jon Swift. Sorry, Sadly, No guys, I just think he’s funnier than y’all. The DUFU doofuses, OTOH are as funny as giving a rubber crutch to a crippled man: big yucks for cruel creeps.

By: Moxie

Moxie — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:51:27 +0000

We also lost this guy to pancreatic cancer. Interesting to know what he'd say if he were around to hear about this. It would probably something like, "EVOLVE, you fuckers!" Not to worry, though. You can still hear Dennis Miller on AM radio every night, whoring himself out in the service of George Bush and his fucking wars. What a world. For those of you in need of death-related comedy relief, I recommend this.

By: slippytoad

slippytoad — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:24:48 +0000

Wow. From unfunny assholes to fucking murderers. How far a stretch is that.

And I went to the front page of DUFUS. What a fucking stupid site.

By: r@d@r

r@d@r — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:53:59 +0000

They are fascists. They should be locked up. Period.

well, if you want to look at history, that’s not generally the remedy favored by antifascists. very, very generally speaking, you understand.

By: NickM

NickM — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:06:49 +0000

Stephen:
I can’t. I never claimed that was true; Beth Ferrari did and I assume she has good reasons for doing so, although I agree it is not “proof” by a preponderance of the evidence.

My focus is not quite so narrow. My focus is the hateful assholes who spent 1000+ posts commenting on a dying man’s medical treatment, analyzing his bills, the donation checks and routing numbers, etc. with a degree of care and exactitude one wishes the media devoted to analyzing evidence of WMDs in Iraq. Does this prove illegal behavior? No. Does it prove that the people who were wrapped up in proving that Scamdy’s pancreatic cancer treatment was a “scam” are flaming assholes? I’m not sure reasonable minds could disagree on this point.

You’re welcome
NickM

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:50:11 +0000

NickM.

Your link is intended to go to page 251, etc. Go there, or anywhere else.

Could you paste in this comment thread ANYTHING about “making small donations so they could then call Paypal with allegations of fraud that froze Andy’s account.”

Thanks.

By: NickM

NickM — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:45:31 +0000

There’s 1000 + posts of commentary about “scamdy’s” medical treatment and, more importantly, how it was paid for here. Take a look if you want to be disgusted.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1414431/posts?q=1&;page=251And here’s some interesting information about PayPal hijinx:

By: Bushies Lied; Andy Died at politburo diktat 2.0

Bushies Lied; Andy Died at politburo diktat 2.0 — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:39:48 +0000

[...] Sadly No! guys have resurrected this story from 2005. Here’s how it [...]

By: Stay Classy, Right-Wingers! « Mercury Rising ??

Stay Classy, Right-Wingers! « Mercury Rising ?? — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:35:09 +0000

[...] And here’s some more classiness from the right [...]

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:32:32 +0000

This doesn’t surprise me one bit. Mike Huckabee, the former Southern Baptist minister and former governor of Arkansas, was aided by the right-wing crazies in his quest to free Wayne Dumond, who the crazies stated really didn’t rape Bill Clinton’s cousin. Dumond, on being freed, went out and brutally murdered another woman — and Huckabee, ever the shameless prick, blames Bill Clinton for it.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:08:29 +0000

Is there any evidence ANYWHERE that Freepers “had its agents make small donations so they could then call Paypal with allegations of fraud that froze Andy’s account.”

You and Balloon Juice and DU and American Street have claimed this, quoting Elizabeth F’s open letter. It’s a pretty shocking accusation. Your commenters have lapped it up.

Any shred of documentation anywhere? Anything??

By: NickM

NickM — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:15:01 +0000

I think there are a number of ways of achieving some justice both criminally or civilly. If I was a first-hand witness to some of these events and wanted to see justice served, though, I would not wait another instant before going to talk to a prosecutor, investigative agency or civil attorney. Mr. Stephenson apparently died in July 2005 and the statute of limitations is ticking away.

By: The American Street » Blog Archive » This is the new Bush state, the new American values

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:58:53 +0000

[...] This is when disgust fails. [...]

By: thoughtcrime

thoughtcrime — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:23:54 +0000

Ya know if he would have just stfu he might have won.

By: Jay Hovah

Jay Hovah — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:07:32 +0000

“Are these twats in Seattle?”

I suspect they work for the Discovery Institute…

By: ellenbrenna

ellenbrenna — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:17:13 +0000

One thing that I cannot get over is why the hell would the Freepers care if a man is pretending to have cancer so he can rip off his friends and members of Democratic Underground?

If they really believed Stephenson was engaged in fraud you would think they would laugh to themselves about the suckers at DU and leave it at that.

On some level they had to know how disingenous the accusation was and just wanted to gleefully fuck with a man’s medical care.