The O.C. Register: too hot for FreeRepublic

I was glancing over the thread at FreeRepublic.com entitled "Border watcher draws protest" and I tried to post a reply when I got the notice above: the thread had been pulled as I was reading it. That post linked to the article by the same name in the O.C. Register.

Apparently the normally acceptable O.C. Register becomes unacceptable when they discuss the Minuteman project. None of the 36 comments in the copy of the thread still in my browser appeared to be outside the bounds of reasonable discourse. There were a couple comments suggesting that JimRob was allowing discussion of the MMP. Someone did post a link to the MMP website and provided an excerpt in order to counter the claims made in the OC Register article.

My comment was going to provide additional information on U.C. Riverside professor Armando Navarro, which could have been useful, for instance to send to the OC Register to suggest they provide more background information. Pulling threads like this only lends credence to the claims of some that FreeRepublic is caving in to pressure either of the PC or the GOP variety.

UPDATE: Now this is rich. Yet another thread on the MMP has been deleted. It appears to be a post about the article "Vigilantes Take Over When Government Doesn’t Act". That's from the five-year-old, small print/online newspaper The Lone Star Iconoclast. Their name might not ring a bell. Except, they're based in Crawford TX, and they were the newspaper that endorsed Kerry.

I doubt whether even DU would pull (or, in my case, move) threads so quick.

Politics · Sun, 03/20/2005 - 16:52 · · Importance: 1