A TRIBUTE TO THE FOURNIERS

[Roy Wilson]

You guys are really kind, but Mark and I don't feel like we are deserving of any kind of tribute. Everyone gets their lot to deal with in life, and we are simply putting one foot in front of the other and trying to deal with ours in a way that is true to our principles.

We are very grateful for the prayers and support of Free Dominion members, and we hope that, together, we can all come out at the end of this to a better and freer Canada. That's what it's all about.

I disagree.

You COULD HAVE folded like a cheap lawn chair at the first sign of "trouble" from the CHRC and/or Warman and are risking MUCH to "stay the course".

Agreed

"Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

[Red]

Connie you and Mark have never publicly wavered in your fight against Tyranny, for that alone I salute you.

[WestViking]

Connie you and Mark have never publicly wavered in your fight against Tyranny, for that alone I salute you.

Bump for courage under fire.

[styky]

Connie you and Mark have never publicly wavered in your fight against Tyranny, for that alone I salute you.

Bump for courage under fire.

I went away for a few days and apparently missed this wonderful tribute. Kudo's to you Westviking for writing it.

Connie and Mark were supposed to have folded like a cheap suit due to pressure from left forces. Thank heaven for their determination and perseverance giving us a place where we can still fight the good fight.

[Ipberg2]

5. Until this issue is resolved and the CHRC and Warman are stopped cold in their tracks we risk losing our freedoms and the right to speak out freely on issues that matter to us.

Good post to boost morale for the moderators of FD! I have and will continue to speak out outside of FD through Letters to the Editor and posts to the websites of mainstream media outlets like the Globe and Mail.

The alternative is mealy-mouthed self-censorship, and smiling sweetly when some elitist pecksniff calls us 'radical far right', 'homophobes', 'Islamophobes', 'Bushbots' and whatever other tags they can use

Here at FD I've seen plenty of name-calling by our side. But I've also plenty of good posts which expose the errors of our adversaries' and subject their ideas to ridicule. My understanding is that this work is part of FD's goal of building up Canadian conservatism.

[Dacre]

Indeed God bless Mark and Connie for their courage and resolve mixed with intellegence. That was an excellent post WV. We have heroes fighting abroad for the very freedom many at home here are taking for granted. We owe it to those brave souls if nothing else to do our part as best we can to insure liberty here at home. Socialism kills the will. We see evidence of it numerous times each day sadly. We definitely all need to thank Mark and Connie for their bravery, leadership and determination to keep us all in the fight.

[Red]

Connie you and Mark have never publicly wavered in your fight against Tyranny, for that alone I salute you.

Bump for courage under fire.

I went away for a few days and apparently missed this wonderful tribute. Kudo's to you Westviking for writing it.

Connie and Mark were supposed to have folded like a cheap suit due to pressure from left forces. Thank heaven for their determination and perseverance giving us a place where we can still fight the good fight.

Bang on Styky, Connie and Mark were expect to fold and self censor themselves yet they stood true to their Principled Conservative Values. How bloody rare is that these days. The libel suits are an apparent attempt to silence us, if we cease to speak or are afraid to speak the filth of the earth that represents Socialist Ideals shall win. If you haven''t or have been afraid to post here please do not let the socialist marxist scum win. They can't sue all of us, just try and silence us through intimadation.

I'd rather be dead than Red. Pist anyone got any hair dye, like a brown color going cheap.

Dacre and Ip great posts.

[Dacre]

I haven't heard that in a long time. "I'd rather be dead than Red" But it definitely could have a dual meaning in your case. That's funny. Thanks for the compliment.

[WestViking]

LIBERTY BUMP

[Peter O'Donnell]

Some very good comments above. What we are seeing, I submit, is a spreading of the academic world's recent groupthink nightmare out into the wider society. Warman and Kinsella seek to turn the political arena in Canada into a huge campus lecture theatre -- you parrot their leftist views or get a failing grade, and take the year over again at your own expense until you get it right (I mean left).

It is not an accident that the politicians give themselves a wider safety net by removing such sanctions from the Houses of parliament (although one would strain to imagine Senators debating anything with much acrimony).

Let our adveraries understand one thing, we will not abandon the cause of freedom of speech in this hostile climate, if we do that, the tendency will just increase and before very long the next assault will be on freedom of religion. You can bet your (Judaeo-) Christian heritage on it, which is why I pleaded for a broader front against the censors.

At the moment, we are still very much a rag-tag army of individuals which at least makes targetting us more difficult. When will the CPC wake up and realize what their first duty has to be? They have always been at the mercy of this situation, as we've seen time after time in the unbalanced news coverage and analysis in our mainstream media.

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[Peter O'Donnell]

I've been somewhat insomniac this past night here because I fell asleep after supper, so I had the brainstorm of going back to day one of my membership here (which was March 10, 2005) and reading through some of the first few threads that I found interesting ... and yes there are a few much-missed individuals, but back then I was struck by the civilized and polite and even optimistic tone, more or less, if we can just get Martin out of 24 Sussex Drive, Stephen Harper looks like the guy who will be strong enough to push back some of these encroaching forces.

Well, it took a few tries to get Martin out of there, as we can recall, thanks to Belinda and Chuck Cadman, etc, but now that we are two years into the Harper era, what a mixed review he is earning from us here ... I for one have really soured on the guy, just not able to accept the total lack of leadership on this Section 13 controversy that we should be getting from a conservative PM.

It is all very Joe Clark like in that regard. Other things are more impressive, the military and foreign policy stands are commendable, the get tough on crime approach is long overdue if it means anything, the proof will be in the pudding there. But then there's the climate change boondoggle and another opportunity for realism wasted.

Oh well, here's something I said rather ironically in my first few days here: "it would be better to get 70% of what Harper is promising than 100% of what Martin is sure to deliver."

Turns out we got both.

[free_life2]

Great tribute WV.

Great Forum, Connie and Mark.

Great courage, again Connie and Mark.

[EdS]

I distinctly recall, back in December 0f 2000, while we were still on the old FReedom.net (a private site for FR Divisions to discuss action plans) as we concocted and planned FD that we <i><b>joked</i> </b> about the Canadian Government (which was Liberal at the time) or other liberal institutions, banning or suppressing our impending web site.

How prescient were were!

[Peter O'Donnell]

When my wife and I set up a home business to handle overflow publishing and editing work back in Peterborough, we called it Keewatin Press, because we joked that some of our conservative clients would probably end up with us in a northern gulag, such as the Keewatin district which is now the mainland part of Nunavut. That was in 1981.

One of our clients renamed it Keepwaiting Press, but anyway, the prescience has been around since Trudeau got chummy with Castro.