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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: sweetliberty
No. But MANY thanks for the ping!
201 posted on 03/10/2004 6:49:55 AM PST by Budge (<>< . ')
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To: Richard Poe
Another book on the list.

L

202 posted on 03/10/2004 6:54:07 AM PST by Lurker (Don't bite the hand that meads you.)
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To: MeekOneGOP; Richard Poe
Thanks for the ping Meek. I've seen the book advertised on several conservative book sites, I had no idea Mr. Poe was one of FR's own. I still have sooo much to learn, thankfully there are many willing and knowledgeable teachers here.

Richard, thank you for writing this much needed book. I look forward to reading it very soon.

203 posted on 03/10/2004 6:58:57 AM PST by Donaeus ( Change the world, not en mass, but by planting freedom in one heart/mind at a time.)
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To: Richard Poe
Somebody knew that the Freepers were fighting for liberty on the Internet,

Unless of course you count those who really just want Republican politicians to be elected. Those people are confused, they actually think they are the same things.

204 posted on 03/10/2004 7:02:16 AM PST by Protagoras (When they asked me what I thought of freedom in America,,, I said I thought it would be a good idea.)
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To: ForGod'sSake; FBD
"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."

I've a feeling in my gut should the Liberal-Socialists run the hag, it'll end up being a complete & utter disaster.
She's *despised* wayyyy too much.

But let's say they think otherwise & do run the beast, OK?
I say, bring it on.

The mealy mouthed wench's presence on the Liberal-Socialist ticket might just be what the Dr. ordered to finally focus the entire spectrum of the right together in ways never before thought possible.

One thing's for certain in any event, it'd sure make my day because it'd signal the beginning of real war to me.

So Liberal-Socialists, go right ahead, bring her on.

...-BTTT-

205 posted on 03/10/2004 7:05:04 AM PST by Landru (Indulgences: 2 for a buck.)
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To: Richard Poe
Very Good. I'll be buying your book....
206 posted on 03/10/2004 7:09:00 AM PST by b4its2late (Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark!)
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To: sweetliberty

207 posted on 03/10/2004 7:15:50 AM PST by Diva Betsy Ross (Every heart beats true for the red ,white and blue!)
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To: cmsgop
The Democrat Party as a whole in my humble opinion makes the MAFIA look small and along with the so called :Mainstream Media" is setting America up for a dictatorship.
Once the Democrats get the Supreme Court they will go to installing their military generals.It is closer than most realize.
208 posted on 03/10/2004 7:20:06 AM PST by gunnedah
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To: Richard Poe
If you go through the usenet groups archive on google ( here ) you'll find a lot of good posts from JR and others about the "underground" internet fight against the Clintons, democrats, etc. Very entertaining to read and well-written. Some people think FR came out of thin air, but you can see the beginnings of it in JR's and others posts.
209 posted on 03/10/2004 7:25:13 AM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: cmsgop; Richard Poe
Ditto! Bump!
210 posted on 03/10/2004 7:36:42 AM PST by EdReform (Support Free Republic - All donations are greatly appreciated. Thank you for your support!)
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To: Drango
VRWC bump!

Thanks. Back at you.

211 posted on 03/10/2004 7:49:57 AM PST by VRWCmember (Dick Gephardt is a <a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">miserable failure </a>)
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To: DollyCali
"Instead of " dewey-eyed" intern - either male or female.. I would suggest blind & deaf as being necessary"

Yeah. I almost felt sorry for Beelzebubba, being married to her.
212 posted on 03/10/2004 8:05:09 AM PST by dsc
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To: netmilsmom
"gift giving holiday"

March 11 is Saint Eulogius' day.
213 posted on 03/10/2004 8:07:29 AM PST by dsc
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To: Old Sarge
alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater was more of a battlefront than Prodigy. I found Prodigy too boring.
214 posted on 03/10/2004 8:10:54 AM PST by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: Richard Poe; Jim Robinson
Great big bump
215 posted on 03/10/2004 8:12:55 AM PST by baseballmom
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To: Jim Robinson
"I believe in mom, apple pie and baseball.

Jim, you're my kind of man. :-)
216 posted on 03/10/2004 8:23:03 AM PST by baseballmom
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To: Richard Poe
Trying to keep the Freepers pulling in the same direction is like trying to herd cats.

This is a great line. I'm going to steal it...

217 posted on 03/10/2004 8:25:26 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: JohnHuang2
Bump!
218 posted on 03/10/2004 8:41:17 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: JohnHuang2
Thanks KOP......
219 posted on 03/10/2004 8:51:50 AM PST by BARLF
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
Trying to keep the Freepers pulling in the same direction is like trying to herd cats.

This is a great line. I'm going to steal it...

me too !!! *G*

220 posted on 03/10/2004 8:52:48 AM PST by DollyCali ("Trying to keep the Freepers pulling in the same direction is like trying to herd cats." Richard Poe)
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