In recent news the controversial Facebook page Rise Up Ocean County was removed last week. This is the second time the Facebook page has been taken down by Facebook, and all indications show it might be gone for good. They do operate a backup page, but nowhere near the 19,000 followers they once had.
The good news is they have a website that is still up to communicate their message with their followers. Below is their latest press release.
We’re ALMOST There
So who likes the new logo?
If you find yourself missing reading Facebook posts about basement businesses, political corruption, the shenanigans of Dr. Rich Roberts or the strategy now being deployed against Jackson by Agudath Israel and developers, HAVE FAITH! They’ll all be back and then some.
As you might imagine, when Facebook unpublished our page we were heartbroken…for about five minutes. Then we charted our path forward and began the process of putting the pieces in place that will ultimately lead us to an even stronger position than we had before. It has been an exhaustive couple of days but we know that nearly 19,000 people have come to depend on us and we will not let you down.
To the literally thousands of you who have emailed or messaged and the hundreds who have called to lend your support, thank you. Truly, we got knocked down pretty hard and knowing that you were there to pick us up, dust us off and send us back into battle means the world to us.
To the media outlets that extended the courtesy of speaking with us before going to publication, thank you too. You all ROCK and as promised, our door will always be open to you going forward. To those that ran the damning headlines without extending that courtesy, NO SOUP FOR YOU! Ever.
As of this writing, Facebook has still not replied to our appeal, an appeal that they invited us to file, so we are proceeding under the assumption that our beloved open page will not be returning.
As many of you have discovered, Rise Up Ocean County-Private Group is still alive and well. There are roughly 4,000 members with quite a few member requests pending. We originally formed that group in the event that Facebook ever did take down the open page so we are grateful for having taken that step.
The private group is private for now. That means that only members and admins can see or share the content and content that is shared can only be seen by members. In short, it’s a closed environment. Members are free to comment but it should be understood that in the group there are “moles”. Of course they can only be “moles” if we don’t know they are there, otherwise they are just members of the group so, there’s that.
On Monday it is our intention to change the privacy setting to “open” which will make the page searchable, visible and joinable for all. As an open group, admins will still have to approve member requests to join and there is one major difference between this group and our previous page…at least for the time being, all comments will be scrutinized by an admin before they post. When you click post, it will immediately land in our in box, we will read all comments and decide whether or not they are approved for public viewing. The goal is to ensure that the group remains spotless so that we need spend no time defending our group and rather can spend our time defending Ocean County.
PLEASE continue to share the BLOG POST, not the Facebook post. All of our information, videos etc will originate on the website blog and then will be shared in the Facebook post.
How long will it take us to build the group back to 19,000? Maybe a week, maybe a month, maybe never. What you must know is that we took Facebook’s actions against us personally. Upset has changed to anger and anger has now transitioned into resolve. Ocean County needs a hero and we are absolutely committed to leading that charge regardless of how many members we have on a Facebook page or if we have a Facebook page at all.
Over the weekend we will finalize the fine tuning in the Facebook group as well as on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and the website. Monday morning we are reemerging in a big way, please be patient until then.
Finally, special thanks to Agudath Israel, the ADL, Michael Cohen, Keith Kaplan, Rabbi David Rosenthal, Ben Kopciel, Donovan Whateveryournameis, Hindy Bertram and the rest of our fan club members. Your chest pounding celebration and victory lap are coming to an end. In the immortal words of Flounder in the movie Animal House, THIS IS GONNA BE GREAT!
Hugs and Kisses!
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Ritch Ritter couldn’t agree more !!
They should change the name to Ocean County Against Overdevelopment
Rosario Cannizzaro Jr. Or fuck you Murphy
Drop dead murphy.
They are a hate group. If they aren’t they attract hateful people. They are cowards and hide their faces
Tina L Barone yeah a hate group exposing illegal daycares , mattresses shop, hair dressers etc. yeah a hate group exposing the massive corruption and over development. Do you even have any type of clue about Lakewood? Obviously not
Tina L Barone I’m definitely not a hateful person but I do hate abusive overdevelpment, bullys, fraud, etc… thank you
Laura Schneider Lange Exposing all the above matters I agree with. There is a way to do it. But many of their post ridiculed the Orthodox Jews. The post incited offensive racial comments
Tina L Barone how is being for the protection and preservation of Barnegat Bay, the pinebarrens and the outright theft of school funding hate-filled?
Yes, a lot of the comments from users were not okay, but the main articles were always factual and backed up with data, especially when it came to environmental issues. I don’t care if it was a group of Trappist monks trying to build a monestary/brewery on that one spot of land in Jackson, if you have to bring in thousands of trucks of fill to fill in swamps and wetlands in order to build, that is a problem. It isn’t racism or hatred, it’s called good environmental stewardship.
Ok moron.
There was not a single post that ridiculed anyone
Tina must be ignorant
Tina L Barone You sad, foolish woman.
Karen E Hurley same here
Tina L Barone hmm I didn’t see any posts like that from them
Tina L Barone Orthodox Jews are funny
Tina L Barone who?
Tina L Barone wait so you were a member of RUOC? Hmmm kettle black?
Tina L Barone like your group does when they wear their Antifa masks or Klan masks?
Glad your coming back and not bowing down to the powers that be. The only place to get truer information!! Kuddos to all of you!????
Too many cannot handle honest reporting today.
Nice to see you back
I couldn’t care less what god you pray to or culture you believe in. I do care about my property value, crime, traffic, taxes… responsible development not cow towing to special interest groups that use their status to bully everyone into their demands. This is simple stuff for most of us, don’t twist it around.
Check out 1871 old Freehold Road just saying especially in the back☹️
Doreen Smith Kozlak yeah what’s up with that?? But I think it’s actually CoxCrow.
Lori Stallone Alberda I doubled check it’s Old Freehold
Free speech. ???? Murphy
Facebook is scumbags they are communists
But the altered video with Nancy pelosi they leave up. Smh. Lol
Funny. The old timers of this area, the ones whose families date back generations to this area, look at all you all NY and north jersey transplants as the over developing fools who ruined brick, toms river, and lakewood. Now y’all mad cause other followed your lead? Cute
Tizzie Cregan you mean transplants from ny and north jersey that contribute to town taxes, assimilate with the community, and send their kids to schools that are loosing millions in funding? Let’s be real here.
Kristen Fabiano Yup, you all did come down, over develop, fill teh schools, create need for more tax money, pricing out folks that were here long before you. In some folks eyes, you are the villain for all the same reasons you hate others. Just giving you some truth and perspective. It used to be so nice, so quiet around here. You had room to stretch your arms. Schools weren’t so expensive because there were a lot fewer students filling it up. Roads didn’t need so much work, flooding wasn’t so big a problem because nature was still there to do it’s job. Just sayin, your are some folks’ villain for sure.
Tizzie Cregan
You’re as dumb as they come.
Yeah but we obeyed the rules. Kept our property clean. We did not make any religious secular developments that didn’t allow anyone else.
We all got along and let our children play together. Didn’t matter what religion you were.
Frank Rosso Everyone likes to think they improve the space they stand in. Just telling ya like it is. Not a single word i gave ya isn’t being said in all kinds of places in these parts. Not my personal view, but it’s a real view. Old timers see y’all transplants and no better. I can’t change the truth for your feelings
Tizzie Cregan ughhhhh you realize the reason for taxes and such going up because a specific group does not pay anywhere near the taxes they should or any at all. Cost of living goes up normally, but when thousands skate around the rules and don’t pay what they should, everything goes up. And nowhere did it say I hate anyone. Us transplants also bought houses. We did not want to build hundreds of inclusive apartments, on the nice farm land. So again, be mad at us transplants all you want, we are not the villains. We are trying to help stop the gross overdevelopment. ????????♀️
Kristen Fabiano Yes, keep telling yourself that’s the only reason taxes go up. Look, I don’t expect your to broaden your perspective on who’s good and who’s bad, but don’t give me shit for giving your truth. To old timers, you just might be their original villain. You are as they say “the invaders”. Again, not my words, but still their truth.
Tizzie Cregan You fool. Migration from North Jersey literally elevated the entire area in terms of economic opportunity. True contribution to these towns.
Meanwhile the ultra orthodox suck the fuckin neighborhood dry of resources with no remorse. Not comparable at all.
Marcus Aurelias Lawrence Morieko Ya, whether or not it “elevated” the area is pretty subjective opinion. What was exactly so bad about it before? There was less crime, fewer Od’s, lower taxes, FAR less traffic, less road damage, less flooding in areas, more privacy in back yards and far fewer assholes on the bay. So “elevated” might be in the eye of the beholder. Were you around here in the 50s? 60s? 70s? 80s? Do you really know what is an improvement or not? To the folks that were here then, it’s not all good this “elevated” you speak of
Again, I am watching more from afar, but am an “old timer” so to speak of the area, and hear what folks say. Pretty presumptuous to assume it’s all “elevated” though
Well, I guess I’m an ‘old timer’ too, born and raised in southern Monmouth County and I really don’t like how snobby Jersey Shore locals are against people from North Jersey. So narrow minded and provincial. And I know I’m in the minority, but man, get over it, it’ll never be like 1978 again. Local people can have drug problems too, they drive cars, can act like assholes, commit crimes, etc. People moved here because it’s a nice area. Expand your mind a little bit, don’t be a snob, get to know some people who come from North Jersey…most of them are pretty cool.
Cathy Crammer local are fully aware it can never go back, but it doesn’t effect their memory when they consider how it changed. What of the snobbery of coming in and talking of “elevating” the people who were here a long time already? You know how often locals have to hear that? It goes both ways, but still should, for smarter folks, create some perspective when seeking to vilify the next group coming in… or one would think anyway
Yes, exactly, you shouldn’t hate them and they shouldn’t hate the Orthodox. <3
Cathy Crammer well that’s how I personally feel, but I have found around this particular page, folks need more than that
Lol tizzie
This was the only real investigative journalism in my feed. Theyll be back…
I hope so. Good info. Unbiased.