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Freepers Mentioned in Book: Hillary's Secret War
Hillary's Secret War: The Clinton Conspiracy to Muzzle Internet Journalists | April 21, 2004 | Vanity

Posted on 04/21/2004 3:46:27 PM PDT by Peach

Today I received the book "Hillary's Secret War: The Clinton Conspiracy to Muzzle Internet Journalists".

From the cover:

From her war room in the White House, Hillary Clinton commanded a secret police operation dedicated to silencing dissent, muzzling media critics, intimidating political foes, whitewashing Clinton scandals, and obstructing justice, all aided by a network of Clinton moles planted at every level of the news media, federal court system, intelligence agencies, and federal law enforcement.

Mainstream news media spiked the story of Hillary's secret war - and the scandals she sought to conceal. But the courageous new journalists of the Internet underground defied the odds and exposed the shocking truth about history's most corrupt presidency.

Written with all the drama and tension of a gripping novel, this carefully researched book gives the inside story of how these modern-day patriots endured Hillary's attacks and emerged from the battlefield to become a sprawling, innovative news source reaching tens of millions each day. Hillary's Secret War presents a tale of dogged courage and sacrifice, one of the greatest untold stories in the annals of journalism.


TOPICS: Announcements; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Free Republic; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bookreview; clinton; hillary; hillaryssecretwar; richardpoe; vrwc
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To: Peach
How am I mentioned, if you don't mind my asking?
41 posted on 04/21/2004 4:08:30 PM PDT by Tennessee_Bob (http://www.code16.com/cat/)
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To: Peach
I must, must, must have this book.

Bump for the internet and freedom of the New Press.
42 posted on 04/21/2004 4:11:25 PM PDT by Rocky (To the 9/11 Commission: It was Al Qaeda, stupid!)
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To: HighWheeler
Hey, I was on that thread on 10/20/01...I had some good stuff.....

Gawd, Hillary on Survivor...I can see her on the challenges with her tribe scarf...LOL
43 posted on 04/21/2004 4:11:52 PM PDT by mystery-ak (Mike1sg is coming home this week!)
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To: mystery-ak
Mike1sg is coming home this week!

Yay!!!!

44 posted on 04/21/2004 4:12:22 PM PDT by stands2reason ( During the cola wars, France was occupied by Pepsi for six months.)
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To: Tennessee_Bob
The author is talking about how the second Hillary was booed on stage in NYC several freepers, and your name was mentioned, posted things like "I'm loving this".

Innocuous stuff.

But it was to prove that it happened (since it got digitally remastered and anyone who didn't see it live missed it forevermore).
45 posted on 04/21/2004 4:12:23 PM PDT by Peach
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To: mystery-ak; HighWheeler
Something about a "hit list?" Is that like for music or something?
46 posted on 04/21/2004 4:12:43 PM PDT by Tennessee_Bob (http://www.code16.com/cat/)
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To: HighWheeler
HEY!!!! I found where I am mentioned in the book!!!

Chapter 9:

"...except the rest of the FReepers who did nothing but sit on their butts making fun of everyone else doing all the important work to save America."
47 posted on 04/21/2004 4:13:18 PM PDT by HighWheeler (Death is better than taxes because death doesn't get worse every year.)
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To: Tennessee_Bob
Yikes....wrong kind of list...
48 posted on 04/21/2004 4:15:25 PM PDT by mystery-ak (Mike1sg is coming home this week!)
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To: mystery-ak
I just saw your tagline.

Mike is coming home this week!!!!! Wonderful, wonderful news.
49 posted on 04/21/2004 4:17:11 PM PDT by Peach
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To: Peach
What are you talking about? Are their screennames in that book?
50 posted on 04/21/2004 4:17:50 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Peach
Foreword by Jim Robinson
Founder of FreeRepublic.com



HILLARY'S SECRET WAR by Richard Poe is the first book I’ve 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.
51 posted on 04/21/2004 4:18:12 PM PDT by Helms (You make me learn by rote 6,666 verses of the Koran and I may kill you too, Allah be praised.)
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To: Peach
Thanks, it sounds like an interesting book.
52 posted on 04/21/2004 4:18:38 PM PDT by Eva
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To: SevenofNine
Bill Sammon did write a book,
At Any Cost; how Al Gore tried to steal the election.
53 posted on 04/21/2004 4:19:55 PM PDT by Brasil ("The cause of freedom is in good hands." GWB)
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To: Peach
Just to let you know that on page 172 you were not mentioned. :)
54 posted on 04/21/2004 4:20:24 PM PDT by AmericaUnited (It's time someone says the emperor has no clothes.)
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To: Peach
Thats funny I went to New Orleans to visit some friends a couple of years ago and drove on to Meet Irma. What a beautiful lady. I havent heard of or seen her in a couple of years.
55 posted on 04/21/2004 4:22:52 PM PDT by cksharks
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To: Peach
Katie Couric brought up the fact that her heinous was booed at the 9/11 rally. Her heinous said she didn't take it personally, they were just venting about the attack.

Snicker, snort!

56 posted on 04/21/2004 4:23:21 PM PDT by OldFriend (Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
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To: Peach
Did I get mentioned, or haven't I pissed off enough people yet?


57 posted on 04/21/2004 4:23:59 PM PDT by Viking2002
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To: Dixi Veritas
ping
58 posted on 04/21/2004 4:25:35 PM PDT by Bilbo Baggins
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To: Peach
Get your copy here
59 posted on 04/21/2004 4:25:41 PM PDT by hattend (Give a monthly FR donation so we can end the stupid fundraisers - I'm at $40 per mo)
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To: Brasil
Just seeing the title of Sammon's book makes my blood boil all over again. He documented all we knew about the scheming media and how they tried to help Gore steal the presidency.
60 posted on 04/21/2004 4:26:34 PM PDT by OldFriend (Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
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