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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: Richard Poe
Bump.....marked for home consumption
221 posted on 03/10/2004 8:56:34 AM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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To: JohnHuang2; Jim Robinson
Jim Robinson ~ Bump!

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~

222 posted on 03/10/2004 9:09:56 AM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: AuntB
Works for me!

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~

223 posted on 03/10/2004 9:14:26 AM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: Landru; Mudboy Slim
>"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."<

If you've read Dick Morris' latest column, I think they will do just that. He says it's now, or never for Hillary. Like him or not, Morris is probably the most astute political analyst of our time. If he's predicting it, I think it must be *in the wind*.

This presidential campaign IS beginning to look like the ugliest campaign in the history of this country.
I think it might wind up like nothing we've ever seen before, or even imagined.
....................
Overview from the book:

"ON FEBRUARY 11, 1998, Hillary Clinton told reporters that the Internet needed an "editing" or "gatekeeping" function. The World Wide Web was out of control, she said. It needed to be reined in. Hillary neglected to mention at the press conference that she had already been waging a secret war to silence Internet dissidents for the last four years.

From her own War Room in the White House, Hillary commanded a secret police operation dedicated to suppressing evidence of Clinton crimes. "Hillary is not merely an aider and abettor to this secret police operation. She has been its prime instigator and organizer," wrote the late Barbara Olson in her 1999 book Hell to Pay. Mrs. Olson was in a position to know. A former federal prosecutor, she served as Chief Investigative Counsel for the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, which probed Hillary's role in the Travelgate and Filegate scandals in 1995 and 1996.


Hillary's operatives silenced witnesses; neutralized federal investigations; blackmailed Senators and Congressmen and intimidated journalists. They looked upon the "unregulated" datastream of cyberspace as a threat to their power, potentially devastating in its ability to bypass the controlled, corporate media. For that reason, Hillary's secret police persecuted Internet dissidents with special ferocity.

Hillary's Secret War tells the story of a group of rebel journalists on the Web who defied an outlaw White House; endured government repression; exposed unspeakable treason at the pinnacle of power and helped change the course of the 2000 election. Their tale has never before been told."

224 posted on 03/10/2004 9:31:08 AM PST by FBD (...Please press 2 for English...for Espanol, please stay on the line...)
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To: Jim Robinson
And the left doesn't like losing.

Tell me about it. When control begins to slip through the fingers of control freaks, they can become, well, emotional ;^) "Power Trip" is not a hobby for them; it's a way of life. It's comical watching their heads explode when their lives begin to come unraveled. God save us from these "sick" people.

I believe that the balance of power for the entire world hangs on this election and the next.

At first reading, I regarded that statement as hyperbole. After some additional thought, I think it's likely very close to the truth. As the U.S. goes; so goes the world?

And they're not exactly slouches when it comes to organizing...

The nature of the beast? Their "constituents" seem more agreeable to being herded?

FGS

225 posted on 03/10/2004 9:32:13 AM PST by ForGod'sSake (ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
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To: Landru
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.

She does seem to bring out the animal in we, er, carnivores.

...it'd signal the beginning of real war to me.

The left has been at war with us for decades; we finally showed up?

FGS

226 posted on 03/10/2004 9:41:08 AM PST by ForGod'sSake (ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
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To: RonDog
Thanks.
227 posted on 03/10/2004 9:56:56 AM PST by nina0113
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To: Richard Poe
Fascinating! But we ordinary human beings knew something was up when mainstream media would ignore anything negative about Billy Bubba, even when his sexual misconduct became apparent. It took the middle of his 2nd term for any mainstream media to publish the news. This attitude by mainstream media is the same for anything related to demoncRATS like Kerry. Case in point--See below for an excerpt of some info:

"The March 5 CyberAlert detailed Thursday coverage of the Bush ads: The Bush campaign may have $100 million to spend, but the Kerry team has the news media as part of its base, a reality demonstrated on Thursday, a day John Kerry took off and didn't even campaign. Based on a single news story in the New York Daily News quoting a single firefighter and a few members of families with 9-11 victims, the morning and evening shows on ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC, as well as CNBC and MSNBC in prime time, picked up the charge that new Bush campaign TV ads, which very briefly show images from 9-11, somehow improperly exploit that day for political gain. In the morning, Karen Hughes was quizzed about it and in the evening the supposed "controversy" led or was the number two story on every evening newscast. ABC's Diane Sawyer, CBS's Harry Smith and CNN's Soledad O'Brien and Paula Zahn
highlighted how the "firefighters union" protested the ad, but failed to point out how that union long ago endorsed John Kerry.
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040305.asp#1"
228 posted on 03/10/2004 10:36:32 AM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: nutmeg
Excellent!
229 posted on 03/10/2004 11:21:12 AM PST by Bigg Red (Never again trust Democrats with national security!)
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To: Jim Robinson
I'd buy one for myself and several as gifts for friends who haven't been "converted" to the freedom of conservatism yet.

I think offering this as an incentive for the next FReepathon is an excellent idea!

Just for the record, I am a monthly donor.

Truthy
230 posted on 03/10/2004 11:27:58 AM PST by TruthNtegrity (I refuse to call candidates for President "Democratic" as they are NOT. Socialists, actually.)
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To: Richard Poe
Bump
231 posted on 03/10/2004 12:12:55 PM PST by BulletBobCo
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To: lilylangtree
What a great example! "...On a day Kerry took off..." They're so 'in your face' about it too. BUMPED and Saved for later distribution!
232 posted on 03/10/2004 12:57:08 PM PST by Pagey (Hillary Rotten is a Smug and Holier- than- Thou Socialist)
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To: pugmehon
"When this is over you will all come to know that none of this is true, it was all made up by a "vast right-wing conspiracy" Hillary 1996

WOW! It was ALL true, and none of it was made up by a "vast right-wing conspiracy", it was ALL made by her husband. How this woman has any credibilty is beyond me.

It makes no sense.

233 posted on 03/10/2004 1:06:17 PM PST by CyberCowboy777 (We should never ever apologize for who we are, what we believe in, and what we stand for.)
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To: Richard Poe; Jim Robinson
We must be doin' something right, guys. We've been sued, screwed, and tatooed for over six years, and we're still after the beaste.

We're gonna win, 'cause we're battle-seasoned now. Let's roll....................FRegards

234 posted on 03/10/2004 1:49:50 PM PST by gonzo (Those who live by the sword usually get shot by people who carry a gun........)
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To: Richard Poe; Jim Robinson
Just WOW!!! And I am going to buy your book, too!!!

Jim-Nice intro. The hurdles you have fought, it appears, were being fought on other fronts by other motivated patriots, as well. I am looking forward to reading this book.

The clintons and their ugly MO still has the capacity to chill me to the bone. They so reek of lies and blind ambition. It's palpable. And as replusive and stinking today as it was yesterday!

Their ability to label their opponents with their own crafty and insidious 'dealings', an ability greatly aided by a complacent and willing press corp., has angered me for many years.

We are still here, we are still motivated out of a love for this nation, its foundations and our years of friendship built upon the same. Our army has grown in both numbers and sophistication. And should this extrodinarily vile piece of work, along with her hound dog HINO (husband in name only-you know the one-the disgraced, impeached creep, a POTUS who left office with a suspended law license-embarrassing for our nation), attempt to shut down sites on the web which provide meeting places for folks of shared political philosophys, etc.....we are ready. Armed with the constitution and much, much more.

So to hellary and her lock step gestapo, I can only quote GW, followed by the meek mannered johnny kerry, saying...'BRING IT ON'!!! He. He. We are ready!!!

235 posted on 03/10/2004 1:57:51 PM PST by Republic
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To: Jim Robinson
$Prodigy war survivor BTTT

Whatever happenned to "McFly???

LOL!

236 posted on 03/10/2004 2:12:12 PM PST by JDoutrider
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To: Richard Poe; Jim Robinson
Congratulations to you both on jobs well done!
237 posted on 03/10/2004 2:59:36 PM PST by Fawnn (Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and CookingWithPam.com person)
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To: sergeantdave
I see the coming storm as being when the American public is hit with the realities that comes with open borders, the 'FTAA' that brings us the American Union (and the assault on our Constitution and legal system it will bring), the unfathomable levels of debt that can't be repaid, the foreign penetration into our political, academic and economic lives, etc. ....all hell will break loose
238 posted on 03/10/2004 3:10:46 PM PST by american spirit
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To: Richard Poe
Just ordered my copy.
239 posted on 03/10/2004 6:20:59 PM PST by MonroeDNA (Soros is the enemy.)
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To: nutmeg
BTTT
240 posted on 03/10/2004 6:24:15 PM PST by nutmeg (Why is FR so slowwwww tonight?)
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