Posted on 05/12/2004 12:59:00 PM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at breakfornews.com ...
Boy, he sure made it difficult for a real attorney representing the Berg's to sue you and win.
Not to mention the list was compiled from already publicly available data.
The left is completely untethered from reality.
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.
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.
Two nickels and a dime taped together.
Good Grief! Not only does the author take the father's position that it's all Bush's fault, but he also suggests that Free Republic is responsible for misidentifying him as an anti-war activist which permitted the Bush administration to allow him to be murdered. And the author thinks *we're* nuts??? LOL!
Also wasn't being clear on which "him" was being misidentified: it was the young Berg, not the leftist freak father.
FreeRepublic.com is not a difficult website to find and browse through, and see that the lies about us are false.
Thus those who perpetuate such falsehoods about who we are and what we do can only do so among people who are too lazy and stupid to actually come here and take a look around.
It is with that knowledge in mind that I evaluate the opinions of those who defame and slander the Free Republic. As you can imagine, I don't tend to lend them much weight.
The sins of the father?..When is Kerry going to pay for his sin of smearing the entire armed forces with the slander of war crimes, when is he going to pay for the crime of having our POWs taunted with his words by the Vietnamese captors..
Are you saying GHW Bush committed a crime when he freed the Kuwaitis from Saddam's rapers, killers and looters...Where are you coming from? Al Queda?
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Saw that.
Curiously quiet now, ain't he?
Very
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