Hillary's Secret War: Foreword by Jim Robinson

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[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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[Diva Betsy Ross]

OMGOSH! That is funny!

[Patriotic Bostonian]

Just pre-ordered your book from Amazon!

[Carry_Okie]

There may be those who don't understand it, but it is an undisputable fact that George Bush would not be President today were it not for FreeRepublic.

[Tribune7]

Great job, Jim.

ping

[Jim Robinson]

Hey, you can't lay that off on us. It's all Pat Buchanan's fault. Had his name not been on that butterfly ballot in Florida, those 500 hundred or so Albert Gore voters wouldn't have been so confused and poked the wrong chads.

[sweetliberty]

Very nice work. Now I know what to read when I get done with Star Parker's book. Congratulations! It's things like this that make me proud to be a FReeper.

[Taxman]

Scrap the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy Bump!

Jim, we may be a herd of cats, but when the target is Hitlery!, we unsheath our claws and work to one common purpose -- keep that Wicked Witch out of the White House!

Thanks for writing the book, Richard. I look forward to reading it. And thanks for asking JimRob to write the Foreward.

Taxman Bravo Zulu to both of you.

[sweetliberty]

Have y'all seen this?

[Mo1]

I love the signed copies at pledge drive idea! I'd get one!

I'm sold

Oh heck .. I'd buy the book and donate even if I didn't get a signed copy

Why???

Cause Free Republic ROCKS !!!!

[Mo1]

Yep .. I just saw it and just ordered the book

[Carry_Okie]

Who was demoralizing AlGore as the recount dragged on? (He admitted it too.)

Get out of Cheyney's house!
Get out of Cheyney's house!
Get out of Cheyney's house!
...

Who were those Republicans trying to break into the secret Palm County ballot count?

Let us IN!!!
Let us IN!!!
Let us IN!!!
...

Who was feeding the world hard data on top of all that criminality in Florida?

Who was organizing street demonstrations nationwide?

They have met the enemy, and they is us.

[Carry_Okie]

Who was demoralizing AlGore as the recount dragged on? (He admitted it too.)

Get out of Cheyney's house!
Get out of Cheyney's house!
Get out of Cheyney's house!
...

Who were those Republicans trying to break into the secret Palm County ballot count?

Let us IN!!!
Let us IN!!!
Let us IN!!!
...

Who was feeding the world hard data on top of all that criminality in Florida?

Who was organizing street demonstrations nationwide?

They have met the enemy, and they is us.

[sweetliberty]

LOL!

[Exit148]

A pre-ordered BUMP.

Or is it ---'I just pre-ordered it, and will also BUMP.

Or a BUMP following a pre-order?

[Carry_Okie]

Now, about those double posts...

[DoctorMichael]

Sis Boom Bah!
Rah, Rah, Rah!
Push em Back!
Push em Back!
Waaaaaaaay Back!

Bttt for the Hometeam!

[sweetliberty]

"have seen and heard it said many times on the forum and at FR related gatherings."

Well, given the rising prestige of the viking kitties, it's appropriate.

.

"Troll target neutralized."

[nicmarlo]

Have y'all seen this?

No ma'am, hadn't seen this...thanks for the ping. Nicely written forward there, JR; looks like an interesting read, Mr. Poe....definitely on my "to purchase" list when next up in Syracuse.

[Jim Robinson]

Hurrah for the Florida and DC FReepers!! And for all the FReepers everywhere who joined the nationwide SoreLoserman protest! Now we get to do it all over again! Hillary/Kerry, et al, and their corrupt Marxist/Democrat agenda must be defeated! And not only defeated, but a stake must be driven through its cold dead heart to keep it from rising again!

[AGreatPer]

"I'm just about finished with your "The Seven Myths of Gun Control", and it is absorbing. Full of facts and well-documented. I expect to find the same with Hillary's Secret War."

Now I have to get two books. Thanks for the tip sweet.