Beheaded Man's Firm Was On Right-Wing 'Enemies' List

Breakfornews.com ^ | May 12, 2004 | Fintan Dunne

[Tarantulas]

Beheaded Man's Firm Was On Right-Wing 'Enemies' List

The family firm of beheaded American Nick Berg, was named by a conservative website in a list of 'enemies' of the Iraq occupation. That could explain his arrest by Iraqi police --a detention which fatally delayed his planned return from Iraq and may have led directly to his death.

Nick Berg, 26 disappeared into incommunicado detention after his arrest by Iraqi police in March, 2004. He vanished again after his release 13 days later. His body was found last Saturday in Baghdad, and a video of his beheading --supposedly by a radical Islamic group-- was posted on the Internet on Tuesday.

The official story of his gruesome murder has many dubious aspects, not least the real reason why Iraqi police detained the young man at a checkpoint. New research by BreakForNews has uncovered a plausible explanation.

The FreeRepublic.com web site and forum has a reputation for right-wing views, often fanatical Republican and relentless pro-war activism.

On 7th March, 2004, just three weeks before the first anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, an 'enemies' list of anti-war groups and individuals was posted on the Free Republic forum.

It began: "Here you are, FReepers. Here is the enemy."

The list had been copied from publicly available endorsements of a call to action for an imminent anniversary antiwar protest on 20th March, 2004. The protest was being organized under the banner of the A.N.S.W.E.R Coalition (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism).

Among those listed as having endorsed the call to action was this entry: "Michael S. Berg, Teacher, Prometheus Methods Tower Service, Inc."

That's Nick Berg's father, Michael who acts as business manager for his son in their family radio communications firm, Prometheus Methods Tower Service.

[Tarantulas]

I saw this on another message board and couldn't believe they're trying to blame this on the Free Republic.

[Born Conservative]

It's Free Republic's fault; I guess that lets George Bush off the hook. </sarcasm off>

[bboop]

No kidding! That is the most twisted 'logic' (and I use the word loosely).

[onyx]

Written by a left-wing-loon.
Yep, it's our fault.

[sandbar]

Ping

[Old Sarge]

That's some pretty good intel on the part of The Sand People, that they knew to come to FR to find a list of ANSWER donors, and matched up ONE name out of a list of people, and make the connection.

Why not just go to Who's Who In America, instead?

You got this off DU, didn't you?

[Bikers4Bush]

If you're going to lay blame in this manner then start with the father. He's the one that signed his name.

[Annie03]

Quite a stretch-but some people will resort to anything. There is no way the Iraqi police read FR. Nor do I think they would be able to make the connection (Berg is not an uncommon name). Further-why would the barbarians kill some one who they thought was on their side? This is just a load of crap for the lefty useful idiots. Lots of fodder for their tin foil theories and rantings. Sheesh.

[noscreenname]

Of course it's Free Republics fault! Don't you know how seditious those war mongers are! They'll do anything to further their cause of bringing down the true peace lovers of America and the world! <*sarcasm on*>

[onyx]

Featured link = your post.

[Mr. Bird]

If only our security apparatus was so efficient as to be able to pull info and make something happen that fast.

Also, I think the author needs a refresher. Nick Berg was not killed by U.S. or Iraqi police.

[Jim Robinson]

International A.N.S.W.E.R. is populated by fools, tools and dupes. The terrorists would slaughter them all if given the opportunity.

[Sloth]

LOL

and a video of his beheading --supposedly by a radical Islamic group--

-- but possibly by Scandinavian daycare workers --

[Tarantulas]

Actually it was posted by a liberal on a little board called Talk-Politics.com. Maybe he got it from DU, I don't know. I don't go to that place.

[rocky88]

A little bit about the "author" - what a wacko..

FINTAN DUNNE'S ONLINE ACTIVISM:

www.AidsMyth.addr.com

In April, 2000 I started the AidsMyth website with my partner Kathy McMahon. That was when the president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki began to question the HIV=AIDS paradigm.

It began a heady year of battling the vast propaganda resources of the Pharma Cartel. That battle continues, but not without casualties:

In March, 2004 legendary AIDS activist, David Pasquarelli died following health problems caused by being jailed. [DavidPasqarelli.com]

He had been arrested on November 28, 2001, and imprisoned for 72 days in the San Francisco County Jail for charges related to his political activities. San Francisco authorities had used 'terrorism' laws and outlandish multi-million dollar bail to try shut David up about the corruption of AIDS Inc.

History will mark his energy and outrageous unique political theater of dissent, to be as vital a contribution as Mbeki's measured opposition.

www.PsyOpNews.com

We launched the website just a few months before 9/11, and this is where my infamous world scoop ' Wag The WTC ' first appeared --these groundbreaking articles were the first to expose the holes in the official 9/11 story.

'The Split Second Error' was published online just seven days after 9/11, and the second article 'The Blockbuster' a week later.

Within a month there had been half a million hits to the website.

9/11 activists tell me the articles spotlighted the key smoking guns and helped set the themes for examination by 9/11 investigators.

Unfortunately, we had to pull the website off the Internet only weeks after 9/11, warning readers in advance to copy the site contents. They did, and the articles were widely republished --most notably on www.Serendipity.li [Here and Here]

www.SickOfDoctors.com

From the eye-opening experience gained in investigating the AIDS fraud, it was clear that medicine was deeply corrupted --with an estimated 400,000 Americans being killed annually by iatrogenic medicine. The website examines a host of medical issues with a skeptical eye.

www.GuluFuture.com
www.GuluFuture.org

The Gulu websites, launched in 2002 were inspired by the appalling plight of the now landless Acholi people of northern Uganda, who are slowly being decimated, under cover of a staged 'conflict' between a rebel army and their government. Their story is on GuluFuture.org.


Early material on the GuluFuture.com site covered the Iraq II invasion and the attempts to prevent it --on which we reported extensively during 2003.

GuluFuture is where we exposed the outlandish cover-up by NASA of solar images depcting the passage of Comet NeatVI in February, 2003.

We were also among the first to reveal the highly suspicious aspects surrounding the 'suicide' of weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly --working with Rowena Thursby's 'Kelly Group', who have made such a strong case for murder.

The website is also a member of the eVote Truth Alliance, helping to spread word --along with with Scoop.co.nz -- of Bev Harris' devestating revelations about the built-for-fraud capabilities of Diebold's e-voting systems. Incredibly, this software keeps not one, but two Microsoft Access data tables of voting results. It's like a business keeping two sets of account books.

www.SarsTravel.com

With all that background in AIDS investigation, it didn't take us long to figure that the SARS hysteria just after the fall of Baghdad was based on junk science.

Launched 4th April, 2003 as SARS took off, and featuring articles by investigative journalist John Rappoport [NoMoreFakeNews.com], the site charts the rise of the SARS myth and it's flimsy scientific basis.

www.WagKingdom.com

At last a home for our groundbreaking 9/11 articles, which are now back online on this site. There also is the world-first story of the greatest deception of the current Iraq war -- 'The Sham Saddam Scam'.

This is a series of articles laying out the evidence that the Saddam 'capture' caper was a grand deception involving a Saddam double, prepared fake video clips, creative photography and a compliant, credulous and often complicit media.

[alisasny]

HEY FINTAN DUNNE since when did Nick Berg become Michael Berg? If you have a claim to make take it up with Michael Berg.
We know your lurking and salivating over this thread with your stupid conspiracy theory.

[AZamericonnie]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1134294/posts

Check this out....

[Imal]

I am always amused by the implication that we FReepers always agree with everything that is posted, and are in lockstep on every issue.

Only someone who has never actually visited FreeRepublic.com and has no clue about its format would ever make such a an incredibly stupid suggestion.

Once I see that, I know the rest of what an author has to say is basically worthless.

The idea that Iraqi security forces use the Free Republic for background checks is flattering, however, if somewhat fanciful.

[AZamericonnie]

I think her tinfoils on a little too tight!

[twigs]

Hmm. That's interesting. Everything I had heard locally was that Nick Berg was an independent contractor. This ANSWER list has his father as a teacher for the company that the son supposedly owned. And it wasn't an education company--it serviced communications towers.

[Old Sarge]

Neither do I. I was hoping you could tell me one way or another.

I don't need to go to another forum - i FReep. They come to me, so it seems.

[Tarantulas]

Heh, you posted a link to this thread.

[general_re]

Fintan Dunne is the same crackpot Irishman who brought the world PsyOpNews, currently devoting its time to the proposition that we faked our capture of Saddam. And he's the same crackpot Irishman who brought you AIDSMyth, dedicated to "debunking" the notion that HIV causes AIDS, that HIV is sexually transmitted, that HIV is infectious at all, and so forth. And he's the same crackpot Irishman who brought the world (along with his "researcher", Kathy McMahon), TreeIncarnation - and if you can tell me what the hell that one's all about, I'd appreciate it.

In a sane world, Fintan Dunne would be soaking in gin and bending the ear of some hapless bartender down at the local pub. Instead, the world is completely bonkers, and anyone who takes much of anything Dunne says seriously is pretty well bonkers too.

[onyx]

Oh rocky, THANK YOU!
You're just fabulous!
I feel much better now.
In fact, I am almost jubilant.

[onyx]

Yes, the creep is all that and more:

He's a LURKER here so let's give him a FR welcome!


He must soiling himself to see his blog published here.
He's never had this much exposure.

[hellinahandcart]

Woof!

Hey Doug, the kookburgers have found you.

[doug from upland]

I was contacted by FReepmail by a salon.com reporter who wants the story. I spoke to him off the record and will either give him an official story or perhaps put up a separate post.

[Jim Robinson]

Hatemail just in:

"The family firm of beheaded American Nick Berg, was named by a conservative website in a list of 'enemies' of the Iraq occupation. That could explain his arrest by Iraqi police --a detention which fatally delayed his planned return from Iraq and may have led directly to his death. Hi you filthy scum sucking fascist pig. I'm an attorney who will be offering my services pro-bono to help Berg's family drag your ass through every civil court we can find jurisdiction in. Maybe you had better find a way to hide your assets, Robinson including the cheesy little American flag made in Mexico which is probably tied around the your car antenna. That will be the first thing we'll take so we can give it a good scrubbing and laundering since you have have touched it."
yourworstenenemy@hotmail.com

[doug from upland]

We are living among some whacked out fellow Americans, JimRob. Here is my post regarding contact from a salon.com reporter --- CLICK.

[doug from upland]

Interestingly, A.N.S.W.E.R. has removed Michael Berg's name and many other names from its website.

[B Knotts]

That has a familiar ring.

You know...there used to be another attorney that had it in for FR...

No...not that one...the first one.

[Ron in Acreage]

Berg should have been welcomed with open arms.

[Clara Lou]

Wow. That "lawyer" sounds really intimidating. /sarcasm/ Are you properly frightened by his professional tone?

[hellinahandcart]

I was contacted by FReepmail by a salon.com reporter who wants the story.

You are freaking kidding me.

[MonroeDNA]

This has the stink of Hillary all over it.

See tagline.

[Chi-townChief]

This story is currently linked to Yahoo.

[hellinahandcart]

I see you're not kidding me after all. This is unbelievable.

When did Planet Earth go all square on us? I musta missed it...

[hellinahandcart]

yourworstenemy, Esq. LOL

[Peach]

ping - now Jim has gotten hate mail regarding the same matter as Doug from Upland.

[Humidston]

Wow! I didn't know FR had a chapter in Iraq...

[Vigilantcitizen]

Hi you filthy scum sucking fascist pig. I'm an attorney who will be offering my services pro-bono to help Berg's family drag your ass through every civil court we can find jurisdiction in.

Boy, he sure made it difficult for a real attorney representing the Berg's to sue you and win.

[El Conservador]

I've gone through various forums, and their image of FR is that one of JimRob being Hitler or Goebbels, and us Freepers being the jack-booted, brown-shirted Nazi followers, yelling "Sieg Heil" at every "fatwa" JimRob or the others say without any intellectual exploration.

Or we have the other one: A bunch of toothless, inbred rednecks who wave flags while eating catfish, drinking cheap beer and chewing tobaccy. According to the others, we log on to FR from our trailers.

I'm used to those conceptions, sort of.

[cyncooper]

Quite a stretch-but some people will resort to anything. There is no way the Iraqi police read FR.

Not to mention the list was compiled from already publicly available data.

The left is completely untethered from reality.

[Mo1]

What is this all about?

[onyx]

This is the loon who's trying to pin this on FR
and on Doug from Upland's post.
Heck, Salon.com has contacted Doug,
and Jim has received an anonymous hate letter
threatening a lawsuit.
Let me link you to Doug's thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1134424/posts

[cyncooper]

I'm used to those conceptions, sort of.

We're all used to "those conceptions".

They still are wrong and that makes them MIS-conceptions.

Along with everything else the left is wrong about.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Or we have the other one: A bunch of toothless, inbred rednecks who wave flags while eating catfish, drinking cheap beer and chewing tobaccy. According to the others, we log on to FR from our trailers.

I'm not toothless(36 and still have them all) or inbred. I don't chew or wave flags, although I do display the folded up American flag that came off my Grandpa's coffin from ww2.

But I'm a redneck. I eat catfish, have a truck and a dog. I've lived in a couple of trailers, although I don't now.

You know what? I could give a damn what a puke, scumbag leftist DU kid calls me or thinks of me. Or anybody else for that matter that uses the term redneck in an extremely derogatory tone.

Neither would all the rednecks I know. We're all too busy working, hunting, fishing, serving in the military, stopping on the side of the interstate to help some DU pukes Mother change her flat, otherwise being productive members of society.

Two years ago, I traveled to San Antonio to supervise the installation of an exhibit at an IT trade show. After the installation was completed, I was checking out of the hotel(The one right across from the alamo) and got in line behind some college kids at the service desk who were obviously in town to attend the same trade show I had just set a booth up in.(In other words, they had geek factors through the roof).One had on a Berkerly t-shirt.

There was about 10 of them, and they were a serious delay in my already tight schedule to catch my flight home.

There was a sign off to the side that said,"Welcome Dixie Plywood".

One of the students, of Indian decent, cracked,"Look, dixie plywood." and commenced to doing the beavis and butthead chuckle, which soon spread to his friends.

I figured I better speak quickly before they cracked an inbred joke, making me mad.

Now I ain't a big guy at all, but the Indian student jumped when I spoke out in my obvious southern drawl,"I don't get it."

The whole group turned to look at me. Indian guy bulging eyes contrasted his brown skin, exaggerating the visual effect.

Then I said,"Ohhh...Dixie, redneck, I get it." throwing in a sarcastic "ha...ha".Then I took my cellphone out and acted like I was calling my imaginary dixie plywood buddy.

"Hey Mike, had a blast last night, yeah, hey listen, there's a group of Berkely geeks down here making fun of your company name."

"Yeah, they're at the sign up desk, and they'll be here a while, there's about 10 of them checking in."

"Well, I don't feel you owe me anything, but if you can get me an autograph from Coach Dye next time y'all have a team reunion, I'd be happy as a possum in the briar patch."

I hung up the phone. In full group panic, the students went into bail mode, grabbing up their luggage and leaving the check in counter to avoid the dixie plywood rednecks coming down to beat them up.

As they were discussing the option of sitting in starbucks or borders, I interrupted them with,"Now y'all be careful walking around that riverwalk at night, I saw a water moccasin bigger around than y'alls legs, and they're real aggressive right now because it's time for their eggs to hatch."

" And another thing, y'all are in Texas. There are women here that can kick anyone of your a$$es, so I'd watch what you say cracking redneck jokes."

I had a big grin on my face the whole flight back to Atlanta.

To this day, I wonder if they ever figured out Mike didn't exist, or the fact they got outsmarted by a redneck who wasn't trying hard. I wonder if they went anywhere along the riverwalk at night during their stay. I wonder if they moved to another motel.

Everytime I hear redneck in a derogatory,"I smarter than you" manner, I think of those Berkerly geeks, and smile to myself.

[Trinity_Tx]

LOL
I love it.

[prairiebreeze]

ping post #40

[tongue-tied]

hmmmm...I've been known to drink cheap beer. But I got all my teefes, and my sister's married to another man.

But she IS living in W. VA.