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Hillary's Secret War: Foreword by Jim Robinson
RichardPoe.com ^ | March 9, 2004 | Richard Poe

Posted on 03/09/2004 4:20:49 PM PST by Richard Poe

 

Hillary's Secret War
The Clinton Conspiracy to Muzzle
Internet Journalists

by Richard Poe

 

Foreword by Jim Robinson
Founder of FreeRepublic.com

 

HILLARY'S SECRET WAR by Richard Poe is the first book Iíve read that really pulls together the story of the Internet underground during the Clinton years. I was thrilled to read it. This story has never been told before, and I'm proud to say that I was part of it, in my own small way.

We poured a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into building FreeRepublic.com and organizing a cyber-community of tens of thousands of Freeper activists all over the United States. We didn't do that job to win medals or accolades. We did it because it had to be done, just like we went to Vietnam -- those of us who went -- because that job had to be done too.

To tell the truth, I was ready to go to my grave knowing that everything we accomplished at Free Republic might be forgotten. That was OK with me. What mattered was doing the job, not getting credit for it. Still, when I read Richard's book for the first time, it kind of choked me up a little bit, because I saw that somebody had been paying attention; somebody recognized what we were doing. Somebody knew that the Freepers were fighting for liberty on the Internet, just as we veterans fought for freedom in Vietnam. That made me feel pretty good.

For me, it was fascinating to read about the lives and struggles of others involved in this movement that Richard calls the New Underground -- people like Chris Ruddy, Joe Farah, Matt Drudge, David Horowitz, J. J. Johnson, and all the rest. Believe it or not, I don't really know any of those people. I met Drudge once and J. J. Johnson once. But as for Ruddy and Farah, it's been an e-mail here, a phone call there. And I don't think I ever communicated with David Horowitz at all.

Hillary knows she can't get back in the
White House unless she shuts us down first.
We know the storm is coming,
and we're getting ready for it.

Hillary says that we're a vast right-wing conspiracy, but if there's a conspiracy going on, they sure never let me in on it. I hear Richard Mellon Scaife has given money to a lot of fine causes and organizations, and good for him, but he sure hasn't thrown any my way.

When it comes to networking and conspiring, I'm not much good at it. It's hard enough just trying to get Freepers to work together. How do you get tens of thousands of individualists to cooperate on something, each with his or her own opinion and agenda? Trying to keep the Freepers pulling in the same direction is like trying to herd cats.

I love all the details in Richard's book about the other Web sites and their owners. Reading their stories was eye opening for me. I was so busy fighting my own skirmishes, I didn't have much time to survey the battlefield as a whole. Hillary's Secret War showed me that the persecution we endured at Free Republic was part of a bigger picture.

Of course, I knew about Hillary and her secret police. We all knew that. Way back in the early '90s on the Prodigy message board, we were already talking about how it seemed that Hillary was pulling all the strings. But her war on media dissidents, both on and off the Internet, really was a secret war, just as Richard says. Most people in America had no idea it was going on.

They didn't know what kinds of pressures and harassment people faced when they tried to speak out and tell the truth about Clinton corruption. Even many of us who were directly involved in the dissident media didn't always have the perspective to fit the pieces together: the threats and intimidation, the IRS audits, burglaries, lawsuits, surveillance, infiltration, the smear campaigns, false arrests, journalists getting knocked upside the head in hotels, even a lot of folks mysteriously ending up dead.

Now, I want to make one thing clear. I'm not really big on conspiracy theory. If I'm going to believe something, there's got to be some meat and potatoes to it. I sincerely doubt that Hillary ever personally ordered anyone killed. I just don't want to believe that Hillary is that rotten. And I don't think Richard Poe jumps to that conclusion either.

But there were definitely forces at work in America that killed to protect the Clintons and their secrets. Richard doesn't pull any punches in writing about that. Whether those forces were Chinese intelligence or Dixie Mafia, or whatever they were, I can only guess. But they were out there. And if Hillary ever said to her subordinates, "Gee, I wish such-and-such person would just go away and disappear," I don't doubt there were people in the kind of circles she moved in who might take a statement like that seriously and do something about it.

Hillary is the godmother of the Clinton crime family. There is no question about it. That's why she said we need gatekeepers and editors on the Internet. Hillary has a lot to hide and she knows she can't control the Internet the way she controls Dan Rather. The invention of the printing press freed the masses from the gatekeepers of old. Now anyone with a computer and Internet connection wields the equivalent of his own printing press, along with a worldwide distribution network.

Web sites such as The DrudgeReport, WorldNetDaily, NewsMax, FrontPageMagazine, Lucianne, FreeRepublic, and countless others have given voice to millions of liberty-minded individuals. Underground pamphleteers ignited the flames of revolution in 1776. Now the Internet is fanning those flames all over again. And that's bad news for Hillary.

She knows she can't get back in the White House unless she shuts us down first. The secret war Richard writes about is still going on. It died down a little bit when Bush took office, but it's just the lull before the storm. We know the storm is coming, and we're getting ready for it.

 

Excerpted from Hillary's Secret War: The Clinton Conspiracy to Muzzle Internet Journalists by Richard Poe (WND Books / Thomas Nelson 2004). This excerpt may not be reproduced or published, on or offline, except by permission of the publisher.

Copyright © 2004 by Richard Poe. All rights reserved.

 

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To: netmilsmom
Ist day of spring is a few weeks away..

good luck
181 posted on 03/10/2004 5:05:18 AM PST by DollyCali (2004: Opportunity for love, growth, giving, doing..... It is our choice.)
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To: DollyCali
bttt
182 posted on 03/10/2004 5:07:34 AM PST by jobshopper
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To: Richard Poe; Jim Robinson
Good intro. Looks like an interesting book.

On the list.

183 posted on 03/10/2004 5:14:26 AM PST by sauropod (I intend to have Red Kerry choke on his past.)
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To: Richard Poe
BTTT for the truth
184 posted on 03/10/2004 5:14:50 AM PST by bmwcyle (<a href="http://www.johnkerry.com/" target="_blank">miserable failure)
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To: DollyCali
Dolly, I remember you and your dog -- it was so windy that day at Valley Forge that Lou and I had to tie the crown lines to trees to stabilize The Flag for the short period of time that we were able to keep it inflated!

See http://www.usflagballoon.com for the schedule -- Abner and VoC are still booking events and the 2004 schedule is not yet complete.

Hope to see you this summer.

FReegards,

FRank
185 posted on 03/10/2004 5:20:25 AM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: nuconvert
"And did I see Antonio Banderas will be playing "you" when the movie comes out?"

Well...in a word, yes, Antonio is being considered.

Here's a picture of me dwelling on some weighty constitutional issues, I'm sure you'll see the resemblance.

Wait...

That may actually be Antonio.

It's so difficult to tell us apart...

186 posted on 03/10/2004 5:31:27 AM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Unless the world is made safe for Democracy, Democracy won't be safe in the world.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Oh... Dwell and dwell some more.

I don't think I can really tell either.
More pictures are necessary for this comparison.

187 posted on 03/10/2004 5:36:00 AM PST by nuconvert (CAUTION: I'm an acquaintance of someone labelled :"an obstinate supporter of dangerous fantasies")
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To: vetvetdoug
Where can you see your freeper number?
188 posted on 03/10/2004 5:41:40 AM PST by nina0113
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To: anniegetyourgun
I can remember the old BBS days of communicating about politics!

How do you think I got started in all this mess??

Yakking it up with college bratz on the local boards, that's how. Imagine trying to talk sense to Nickelodeon junkies who praised William the Impeached for their bountiful lives...

189 posted on 03/10/2004 5:59:34 AM PST by Old Sarge
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To: Jim Robinson
"...we're building a conservative powerhouse that I feel is on the verge of finally overtaking the left."
_________________________________________

From your lips to God's ears! May He keep the effort in His providential care, and provide the guidance to complete success for truth and freedom's sake, and to His glory.

Can't wait to read the book...excellent foreword! Heartfelt thanks for FR, and for your service then and now.

God bless.

190 posted on 03/10/2004 6:09:16 AM PST by LucyJo
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To: Richard Poe
BUMP! BUMP! BUMP! BUMP!
191 posted on 03/10/2004 6:11:58 AM PST by The Mayor (There is no such thing as insignificant service for Christ.)
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To: Richard Poe
Excellent!
192 posted on 03/10/2004 6:14:41 AM PST by blam
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To: JohnHuang2
Thanks for the Ping and a

Double Bump for the information!

193 posted on 03/10/2004 6:20:11 AM PST by Maigrey (The only thing I'm singing is the blues, over my credit card debt! - 1Sgt Mike)
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To: Taxman
Thanks for link..

here are a couple pix


194 posted on 03/10/2004 6:21:52 AM PST by DollyCali (2004: Opportunity for love, growth, giving, doing..... It is our choice.)
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To: nina0113; kylaka; deport
Where can you see your freeper number?
Check out THIS THREAD, nina0113 (aka FReeper number 45021):
Do You Know your Freeper Number?

Your Opinion/Questions Miscellaneous
Source: Free Republic
Published: May 17th 2001
Posted on 05/16/2001 21:26:24 PDT by kylaka

Do you know your freeper number? Fortunately it is not tatooed on your forearm. But, unfortunately we are now living in a digital world and self searches would be useless on FR unless we had a descrete identifier. Matter of fact, FR would be complete chaos without it.

Click on any link to any poster or yourself, and create a bookmark or favorite place. Then view the properties of the bookmark. At the end of the string you will see a numerical identifier, that is UNIQUE to FR, and roughly corelates to when you registered to post, in chronological order of other posters.

-- snip --

To: wattsmag2

If you go to anyone's profile page. The number is there at the end of the URL. You can type in a new u=#####

Run that by me again WM. You come up =Wattsmag2, not a number.

44 Posted on 05/17/2001 07:15:44 PDT by kylaka

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To: GOPJ

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/latest?from_user=7643

Click your name and then find in forum.....

171 Posted on 10/06/2001 12:54:27 PDT by deport


195 posted on 03/10/2004 6:31:36 AM PST by RonDog
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To: Richard Poe; Jim Robinson
Thankyou for all you do. There are many good sites, and you know who they are, but this is the site that binds them all together, and then puts everything in proper perspective so there is a clear and concise picture. Truly the frosting on the cake.

Am buying 4 books, as I know 3 people who can't wait to read it, even though they never heard of it yet! Oh, and 1 for me :)
196 posted on 03/10/2004 6:33:47 AM PST by clyde260 ((Public Enemy #1: Network News))
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To: RonDog; Richard Poe
A pre-order bump for you, Richard. It looks like a great read.

Thanks for the ping, RonDog.

197 posted on 03/10/2004 6:36:54 AM PST by RightWingMama
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To: RonDog
Thanks. Will get it.
198 posted on 03/10/2004 6:38:36 AM PST by DLfromthedesert
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To: Richard Poe
Web sites such as The DrudgeReport, WorldNetDaily, NewsMax, FrontPageMagazine, Lucianne, FreeRepublic, and countless others have given voice to millions of liberty-minded individuals.

I have waded through most of these conservative websites and liked FreeRepublic the best. It is non-commercialized and the most important issue of the moment is already posted/linked by numerous Freepers. Just MHO.

I can't thank JR enough for helping me clear the fog created by liberal media.

199 posted on 03/10/2004 6:45:38 AM PST by John123 (Ketchup boy wants to be our second black President!)
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To: Richard Poe
Finally!

Best of luck, Richard.

Freeper tees, mugs, bumper stickers & stuff

200 posted on 03/10/2004 6:49:01 AM PST by Seeking the truth (Some oldies/newbies are really full of themselves, aren't they?)
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