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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: Prime Choice
Hard to imagine, but many of us have been doing this for over 10 years now.

Pre-ordered on Amazon.

41 posted on 03/09/2004 5:26:09 PM PST by CT (Clinton Soup: kleptocracy, with a few hundred extra dashes of treason and wanton deceit.)
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To: cksharks
Very long term memories freeper #81.

I am humbled by your low number.

Those were the days, eh? A new revelation about Vince Foster, or Hillary's Cattle Futures scam, on an almost daily basis.

42 posted on 03/09/2004 5:26:10 PM PST by longshadow
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To: Richard Poe; Jim Robinson
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

I have been lamenting being out of reading material.........can't wait to get a copy!!!!
43 posted on 03/09/2004 5:26:51 PM PST by Gabz (The tobacco industry doesn't pay cigarette taxes - smokers do!)
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To: Richard Poe
Excellent forward by Jim. If Hillary and her toadies do try to bring a storm against free speech on the internet, it will be the defining moment of this nation to see whether the people still stand for what this country was founded on.
44 posted on 03/09/2004 5:30:09 PM PST by #3Fan (Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
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To: Prime Choice
"Trying to keep the Freepers pulling in the same direction is like trying to herd cats."

LOL. That's an old FR expression (and very true). Don't know who used it first on FR, but have seen and heard it said many times on the forum and at FR related gatherings.

45 posted on 03/09/2004 5:30:18 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: Richard Poe
Bump!
46 posted on 03/09/2004 5:30:42 PM PST by Antoninus (Federal Marriage Amendment NOW!)
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To: Richard Poe
It's time for the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy to get back together! Find out Richard Mellon Scaife's phone # and shake down some money. Tell Ann Coulter to start another book. Tell Pat Matrisciana to start filming "The Hillary Clinton Chronicles". Find some dewey-eyed, hormone-crazed college boy to be Hillary Clinton's intern, and tell Linda Tripp to befriend him. It'll be just like old times.
47 posted on 03/09/2004 5:34:36 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
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To: Richard Poe; Jim Robinson
he he he heee...

You're gonna make her maaaay ....ud!

48 posted on 03/09/2004 5:36:33 PM PST by DainBramage
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To: Richard Poe
Awesome!
I smell sequel!
49 posted on 03/09/2004 5:40:45 PM PST by mabelkitty (A tuning, a Vote in the topic package to the starting US presidency election fight)
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To: Richard Poe
Richard --- Really, really looking forward to your latest book!

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.

We are going to be facing her, in some way or another, before long. I think your book will help arm us.

Take care! (seriously!)

50 posted on 03/09/2004 5:40:49 PM PST by Exit148
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To: Richard Poe; Jim Robinson
Something else to add to the Jim Robinson profile:


"I believe in mom, apple pie and baseball. I believe in defending our nation when threatened or attacked. I believe in the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. I believe that our rights come from God and that we're all to be treated equally before the law. I'm pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, and pro-gun. I'm for less government, less taxes and less corruption. I'm for equal rights for all, but not special rights for special interests. I'm for the traditional family and against the feminist/homosexualist agenda. I'm for allowing God back into our schools and getting government the hell out. I'm for getting the US out of the UN and kicking the UN out of the US. I'm opposed to liberalism and opposed to judicial activism. I'm opposed to socialism and I'm for freedom. Have no idea if that makes me a conservative in your eyes or not and could care less one way or the other."
           -- Jim Robinson (12/27/03)

Please let me know when the hard copies get printed, I want a couple.

Well done, Jim.

51 posted on 03/09/2004 5:46:30 PM PST by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional.)
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To: Richard Poe; Jim Robinson; All
Outstanding! Can't wait to read the book...well done Jim. You have made a difference..


52 posted on 03/09/2004 5:51:54 PM PST by NewLand (PRESIDENT BUSH...YOU KNOW WHERE HE STANDS!)
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To: Richard Poe; Jim Robinson
This dummy just ordered the hard copies! (Helps to follow the links. LOL)
53 posted on 03/09/2004 5:52:53 PM PST by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional.)
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To: Richard Poe; Jim Robinson
Recently..while chatting on a board with worldwide poster base..saw a thread appear .
*Freeper Troll.... A definition for British subjects.

As usuall..the content is everything from the exagerated to dillusional.
The socialist/liberals who are the majority of the worldwide poster body at this site are aware of Freerepublic via my invites to visit and links.

The thread reply's to freeper troll saw the usual misinformed posting..but there were some suprises.
A few actually visited FR and returned with a positive response.

Hilliary has her finger on the socialist pulse in America....whats of great import here..is how this connects to the world wide socialist/liberal view.
Freerepublic is seen as a threat to their continuity of thinking.
They do fear a seeker finding FR

The screaming and tantrauming is as loud overseas as here in North America.
So Jim..you are a worldwide influence.
The depth of your site gives many places for a visiter to start.

This has been the reply from those visiting.
An Ex sailor of the Royal Navy,some 24 years visited FR.
He was impressed with the relationship building ties that appear on FR via the military veteran participation.
Commenting..that since his navy years,,he has had liitle fellowship with veterans..and would wish to see such a forum appear in Great Britian.

So then..FR is making waves..over the waves.
This is a good thing .....especially during the days of the fall of Martha Stewart Liberal Living : )

54 posted on 03/09/2004 6:00:18 PM PST by Light Speed
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To: farmfriend; Tribune7
For your pingers.
55 posted on 03/09/2004 6:09:59 PM PST by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional.)
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To: Richard Poe; Jim Robinson
Wow! Bookmarked! Anxiously waiting for March 29 at Amazon.

Great work, guys!
56 posted on 03/09/2004 6:12:58 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of gray.)
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To: Light Speed
Wow! Thanks very much!
57 posted on 03/09/2004 6:15:45 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: brityank
LOL! Thank you, Brityank!
58 posted on 03/09/2004 6:17:54 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: Richard Poe
"Trying to keep the Freepers pulling in the same direction is like trying to herd cats"

This may be true, but I betcha that at least 90% of freeps can stop disagreeing long enough to fight against Hillary.

I look forward to reading your book.

59 posted on 03/09/2004 6:19:45 PM PST by Diva Betsy Ross (Every heart beats true for the red ,white and blue!)
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To: Jim Robinson; Mo1; Howlin; mhking
I love the signed copies at pledge drive idea! I'd get one!

Ringy-pingy!

Prairie
60 posted on 03/09/2004 6:19:57 PM PST by prairiebreeze (So, who has the pictures on Orrin Hatch? And what do they show?)
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