Wow. Thanks for alerting me to that.
This sounds a lot like what I’ve been saying. And previous claims by Hagmann regarding the media being threatened have been checked by Mike Zullo of the Cold Case Posse, and the reality of those threats has been confirmed. So Hagmann was found truthful on that.
Notice the inclusion of the “birther sites” as one of the categories to be targeted. If they were just using the eligibility issue to string people along, they would not target these sites like that.
The more I see of the way they are making Obama into a “God”, the more it looks to me like he is Nikolai Carpathia, from the “Left Behind” series of movies. The boastful little horn.
The timing of when this training took place would be interesting to look at. We’ve got several people on this very thread which joined here on Jan 1, 2013. The only issue they post on is the eligibility issue. I wonder when the training sessions were.
Wanna bet that Free Republic has been designated as a “birther” site? I came here because it was one of the only places where people would actually engage with the evidence. I had been at Hot Air and was absolutely disgusted by Morissey and Allahpundit’s treatment of the issue. Same thing with Ace of Spades.
If anybody is reading this and needs encouragement to donate to keep Free Republic going, just realize that if I didn’t have Free Republic there would have been nowhere for me to go with any of my research, where it could get out to substantial numbers of people. And the same thing is true of others - like you, Fred - and the issues that they research. The media has been threatened; George Soros is the puppet-master. And that includes “conservative” media as well. Places like Free Republic are the last places of resistance left.
I’ve been totally convinced for some time now that the entire make-up and tone of many of the contributors and their comments on FR has changed. I’ve been around since 2003, I cut my teeth on several of the long threads that went to 10,000 or more comments.
I’ve forgotten more than a large number of the current batch of ‘freepers’ whose join-up dates are mostly more than six years after mine -
Who know everything, and repeatledly, relentlessly, unashamedly target any contributor who asks the obvious questions:
Who is he?
Where did he come from?
Who were his parents?
Where was he born?
When was he born?
These are the five cardinal sin/questions one is NOT allowed to ask - although it’s as plain as the proverbial nose on your face no one knows the answer. The put downs and attacks just become more and more professional. More lawyer-talk, more twisting issues into pretzels. (Until one is tempted to throw their hands into the air and walk away, which is of course what they are after!)
It’s almost as if the threads we are on are linked directly into the office of zero’s lawyer, we are now their personal playthings. There are three or four so-called ‘freepers’ who have been tailing every comment I make for at least TWO YEARS.
Thanks for reminding me...it is time to DONATE. We cannot allow them to destroy the only avenue we have.
God bess you, Butter. I signed up at FR for exactly the same reason. I was stunned (stuned?) that there was a place where people were engaging on the subject in a mostly adult fashion, and with references to boot. Amazing!
I don't need any encouragement to donate to FR. I went monthly right after signup. :)