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George Soros and America's Coming Election Crisis (Part 2)
RichardPoe.com ^ | July 17, 2004 | Richard Poe

Posted on 07/17/2004 8:03:05 PM PDT by Richard Poe

Edited on 07/20/2004 7:53:41 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

George Soros
George Soros and America's
Coming Election Crisis


(A Three-Part Series)

 Part 2: The Democrats'
Digital Brownshirts


By Richard Poe

 

"AL GORE IS INSANE [He] desperately needs help," wrote John Podhoretz in the New York Post, following the former Vice President’s May 26 speech at a MoveOn.org rally.

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Many pundits have drawn similar conclusions about the "new" Al Gore who emerged that day screaming, sweating and gesticulating like Benito Mussolini on methamphetamine.

Lacking credentials in the practice of psychiatry, I have tried to avoid speculating on Mr. Gore’s mental soundness. Even so, his address at Georgetown University on June 24 cries out for diagnosis. Among other things, Gore said:

"The [Bush] administration works closely with a network of rapid responders, a group of digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors and publishers and advertisers, and are quick to accuse them of undermining support for our troops."


Gore's rant against "digital brownshirts"
provoked an outpouring of parody
and mirth from bloggers. Go here
.

Rapid responders? Digital brownshirts? What in blazes was Gore talking about?

Gore’s rant against "digital brownshirts" must surely rank as one of the most extreme manifestations of "projection" ever to present itself to the scrutiny of medical science. As Gore is well aware – or at least as he should be aware, in his more lucid moments – it is the Democrats, not the Republicans, who pay Internet propagandists to lie, defame, dissemble and otherwise corrupt political discourse in America.

In the last two years, money from George Soros has ushered in a veritable Golden Age for Web-based Democrat mischief, much of it perpetrated through such high-profile Web sites as MoveOn.org. But if such a thing as a digital brownshirt movement truly exists, its seeds surely took root in the Clinton White House as early as the summer of 1995.

Senator Alfonse D’Amato’s Whitewater committee was then investigating charges that Hillary Clinton had illegally ordered some of Vincent Foster’s papers removed from his office after the Deputy White House Counsel’s sudden death. There was talk of hauling Hillary before the D’Amato committee for questioning.

No doubt adding to the First Lady’s worries, House Speaker Newt Gingrich told reporters on July 25, 1995, "There is plausible reason to question whether or not [Foster’s death] was suicide."

According to White House insiders, the threat of further probes into Foster’s death prompted Hillary, in July 1995, to order the White House Counsel’s office to produce a secret report called The Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce. Hillary’s report charged that a vast rightwing conspiracy financed by Pittsburgh newspaper mogul Richard Mellon Scaife had provoked unwarranted speculation on Foster’s death. The Internet provided a dangerously "unregulated" conduit for Scaife’s conspiracy theories, charged the report.

Circulated privately among Clinton-friendly journalists, Hillary’s conspiracy report inspired a rash of hit pieces in the press, demonizing Scaife. The barrage of anti-Scaife propaganda found fertile soil in the mind of Internet pornographer and former Army intelligence specialist Steven R. Kangas.

If anyone deserves the title of "digital brownshirt," Kangas surely lurks near the top of the list. As recounted in my book Hillary’s Secret War, Kangas’s Web activism had made him a minor celebrity on the left. The Robert F. Kennedy Democrats honored Kangas’s "Liberalism Resurgent" home page with their 1997 "Excelsior Award" for Web sites that "communicate the highest progressive ideals."

Kangas’s site railed against Scaife in words eerily reminiscent of Hillary’s 1995 conspiracy report.

On February 8, 1999, Kangas took action. He arrived in Pittsburgh on a Greyhound bus, with only $14.63 in his pocket. Carrying a Kel-Tek 9-mm semiautomatic pistol, forty-seven rounds of ammunition and a bottle of Jack Daniels, Kangas made a bee-line for Scaife’s office, on the 39th floor of a downtown high-rise.

Kangas was seen peering into Scaife’s outer office through the glass, but he did not enter. Instead, Kangas holed up in a restroom down the hall, got drunk and shot himself in the head. If indeed Kangas intended to assassinate Scaife, he appears to have lost his nerve at the last minute.

 

The Democrat "digital brownshirt" movement has come a long way since Kangas’s wildcatting days. Today, the movement is well-funded and tightly disciplined. Its headquarters is the Center for American Progress (CAP), a far-left think tank launched in July 2003. Headed by former Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta and funded with $10 million from George Soros, CAP serves as the premier platform for Hillary Clinton’s political activism.

One of CAP’s missions, according to its charter, is to run "rapid response" media campaigns, for the purpose of debunking and discrediting troublesome press reports. In this respect, CAP’s mission echoes that of the so-called "War Room" which Hillary first operated during the 1992 presidential campaign. According to the Washington Post:

"The war room was set up to gather as much intelligence as possible and quickly turn it to Clinton’s advantage. Campaign advisors tried to anticipate what stories reporters were working on in hopes of shaping those stories before they were written."

Critical to the War Room’s success was James Carville’s so-called "rapid-response team" – an elite band of spinmeisters who prided themselves on their ability to intercept a Clinton scandal report at midnight and turn it around to Clinton’s advantage by 7 am the next morning.

In view of these facts, Al Gore's use of the term "rapid responder" becomes less mysterious. It has evidently been a fashionable buzz phrase among Clinton spinmeisters for years. However, then as now, it was clearly the Democrats, not the Republicans, who had honed rapid media response to a science.

On May 3, CAP launched a new Web site, MediaMatters.org, which specializes in "rapid-response" work. Funded with $2 million in soft money contributions, Media Matters set to work cranking out daily reports that attack with robotic monotony virtually every conservative utterance that finds its way onto the air waves as a "lie" a "smear," a "slander" or a "factual error."

Among its pet projects, Media Matters has been pressuring Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to ban Rush Limbaugh from American Forces Radio and Television Service -- thus depriving our troops in Iraq of the single radio program they are allowed to hear that actually supports them and the cause for which they fight.

In the interest of full disclosure, I should also mention that Media Matters is leaning rather heavily on Bill O’Reilly to grant its president, David Brock, equal airtime to rebut allegations leveled at George Soros by – believe it or not – little ol’ me!

All of this would be grounds for amusement if these "digital brownshirts" worked in a vacuum. But they do not. Thanks to George Soros, they enjoy an extra-constitutional power above and beyond their stature.

For the first time in living memory, we are heading into an election where political speech will be monitored, curbed and potentially even prosecuted under federal law. Groups such as CAP and its offshoot Media Matters have thus gained the power to play informer, bringing to the authorities’ attention any political speech they find offensive, and which may prove punishable under the McCain-Feingold Act.

In the third and final installment of this series, we will examine how George Soros succeeded, almost singlehandedly, in bringing to an end 228 years of free speech in these United States. Without shedding so much as a drop of American blood, Soros has managed to undo the work of Lexington and Concord. And few Americans even noticed.

 


Velvet Revolution, USA
PART 1 (July 16, 2004)
If you enjoyed the election crisis of 2000,
you’re going to love what Democrat
leaders are cooking up for November.
More...

Freeper Comments Here (Part 1)


The Lies of George Soros
PART 3 (July 18, 2004)
How George Soros singlehandedly gutted
the First Amendment.
More...

Freeper Comments Here (Part 3)

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Richard Poe is a New York Times-bestselling author and cyberjournalist. He is a contributing editor for NewsMax Magazine and NewsMax.com, and runs his own blog at RichardPoe.com. Poe's new book is Hillary's Secret War. His previous book, The Seven Myths of Gun Control, is now available in paperback.

   



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Velvet Revolution, USA ( Part 1)

1 posted on 07/17/2004 8:03:08 PM PDT by Richard Poe
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The Robert F. Kennedy Democrats honored Kangas’s "Liberalism Resurgent" home page with their 1997 "Excelsior Award" for Web sites that "communicate the highest progressive ideals." Kangas’s site railed against Scaife in words eerily reminiscent of Hillary’s 1995 conspiracy report. On February 8, 1999, Kangas... arrived in Pittsburgh on a Greyhound bus... [c]arrying a Kel-Tek 9-mm semiautomatic pistol, forty-seven rounds of ammunition and a bottle of Jack Daniels... made a bee-line for Scaife’s office... holed up in a restroom down the hall, got drunk and shot himself in the head. If indeed Kangas intended to assassinate Scaife, he appears to have lost his nerve at the last minute.
Startling, but not surprising, given the avowed tactics of Hitlery. The associates of Kerry are no better. And we know from Kerry's own testimony against himself that he committed atrocities.
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent

2 posted on 07/17/2004 8:25:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Unlike some people, I have a profile. Okay, maybe it's a little large...)
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To: Vision Thing; Liz

more


3 posted on 07/17/2004 8:34:12 PM PDT by Libertarianize the GOP (Make all taxes truly voluntary)
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To: Richard Poe

The Money Trail

Rothschild is quoted as saying, "I don't care who the government is, let me control the money and I will control the country."

... And, so it goes. The enemies to your freedom do not necessarily lurk behind closed doors in Washington D.C. (although you will find many there), nor are they necessarily engaged in some nafarious conspiracy plotting the overthrow of government.
No, the enemies of your freedom live next door and are found in every city and town in America. "We have met the enemy, and they are us." And, while there is a conspiracy [An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful. - From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)], they do not want to overthrow the government - they want to change government for their own agenda and they want you to pay for it.

In 1954 The Ford Foundation President H. Rowan Gaither told Norman Dodd, investigator for Congressman Reece's Committee, that their objective "was to alter our life in the United States so that we can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union." The Soviet Union no longer exists as we knew it. What has emerged is a much larger globalist entity.
Virtually every major name in banking from Rockefeller to Rothschild to Robert McNamara (president of The World Bank) has spoken of the reality of an interlocking global economy - that what happens on Wall Street one minute is felt in London or Tokyo the next, that the complex jigsaw puzzle of world economy is moving into an oscillating ball that will eventually unify nations and currencies in the global marketplace, and that the economic forces of the earth are moving relentlessly toward a unified world system.
If Rothschild was right about controlling the money, you control the country, then it is pretty easy to see how Communism can fail so conveniently for the New World Order and how basically the same people who were communists then, are now Socialist Democrats and still running things.

The average American Citizen isn't going to give up his Constitution for some World Government too easily. We and our ancestors have fought too long and shed too much blood for it to give up easily.
The plan is for Americans to give up their freedom willingly. Socialist reform is the only way that a one world order can be established without a direct military confrontation.

"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans ..."
Bill Clinton (USA TODAY, 11 March 1993, page 2A)

http://members.tripod.com/~VicBils/index.html


4 posted on 07/17/2004 8:36:24 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get)
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To: SunkenCiv

I'm figuring 58% Bush 40% Gigilo 2% Nueter.


5 posted on 07/17/2004 8:43:13 PM PDT by smoothsailing (Eagles Up !!!!)
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To: Richard Poe

Thank you for writing this.

I am glad that I read it.


6 posted on 07/17/2004 8:45:25 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (You could do a general Google search for: jihad internet today)
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To: Calpernia; Honestly; Letitring; Revel; DAVEY CROCKETT; Quix

ping


7 posted on 07/17/2004 8:50:14 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (You could do a general Google search for: jihad internet today)
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To: Richard Poe

NOW - I am beginning to see George Soro's motivations. They had me stumped for a while there. The atheist / anti-Christian motivation is now very obvious.


8 posted on 07/17/2004 8:52:58 PM PDT by steplock ( www.spadata.com)
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To: Richard Poe

Very good articles. I look forward to reading Part III.

I found your comments about Gore very interesting. It would be hard to diagnose mental illness without being a psychiatrist or having direct contact with the patient.

Personally, I have an intuitive feeling that Gore is psychotic. I am of that opinion, because of the way 'Spotted Al' sounds. I have heard some of the tapes of of Hitler ranting, and Gore's rant actually sounds similar.

Since I am not a physician, or Psychologist, I am relying on the sensitivity of of my ears, picking up qualities, such as pitch, volume, inflexion patterns, etc. Listening to Gore, I am glad he is not President. I do not think the is stable enough to trust with the power of the Presidency.


9 posted on 07/17/2004 8:55:17 PM PDT by punster
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To: smoothsailing
Love those nicknames. Hope you're right. I'll stick with "at least ten per cent" though. :')
10 posted on 07/17/2004 9:15:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Unlike some people, I have a profile. Okay, maybe it's a little large...)
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To: nw_arizona_granny

The average American Citizen isn't going to give up his Constitution for some World Government too easily. We and our ancestors have fought too long and shed too much blood for it to give up easily.
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They can take this to the bank.

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Quix give us a profile on Gore. We know what you think about hitlary.LOL


11 posted on 07/17/2004 9:16:14 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (There is no such thing as coincidence, GOD is in control.)
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To: Richard Poe; nw_arizona_granny
Good work!  Anyone whose heart doesn't lurch (and stomach turn) while reading this isn't comprehending.

Links to some mentioned sites:

The Center for Democracy and Technology  John Podesta - Open Society Institute

Google- Center for American Progress + George Soros

Center for American Progress  Soros / Podesta connection in above link to Google

Media Matters for America

The Constitution Project  Members -John Podesta - General Wesley Clark -      Dr. Morton H. Halperin-Director, Washington Office, Open Society Institute; Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

12 posted on 07/18/2004 2:27:24 AM PDT by windchime (Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
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To: PhiKapMom; Grampa Dave; MeekOneGOP

Part II ping.


13 posted on 07/18/2004 2:32:58 AM PDT by windchime (Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
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To: steplock

"They had me stumped for a while there. The atheist / anti-Christian motivation is now very obvious."

We have several Freepers who brag about being atheists and despise GW. Their posts/replies belittle the rest of us and knife GW in the back. This is probably the connection of more Rat Digital Brownshirts posing as conservatives.


14 posted on 07/18/2004 7:01:57 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Teresa Heinz Kerry: 'I have to say that John Edwards is very beautiful'...)
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To: Richard Poe; Ernest_at_the_Beach; MeekOneGOP; PhilDragoo; nopardons; Liz; SierraWasp; wardaddy; ...

Thanks again for sharing with us.

The Rat Digital Brownshirts live and thrive on Free Republic as old embedden Trolls/Fifth Columnists posing as the Real True Conservatives. They are the rapid response team for the liberals on Free Republic.

It is amazing how quickly they jump on a good news thread on the economy, the war in Iraq, the WOT or anything that GW does. It is obvious that their goal is derail the good news or defuse the bad news.

Whenever, Reuters, AFP/AP or the New York Slimes to the LA Slimes has a negative article/editorial or a new lie about GW, they are the first to post it. Then their cadre of Brown Shirt Jackals jump on the thread to stab GW in the back. Most recent has been the bs that Dick Cheney should resign. That started here even before the NY Slimes had their spin on Cheney resigning. One freeper posted this weekend that he supported GW, but everyone of his cabinet and advisors should resign. Even the NY Slimes didn't go that far.

Now for a quote from you re the Rat Digital Brownshirts:

"The Democrat "digital brownshirt" movement has come a long way since Kangas’s wildcatting days. Today, the movement is well-funded and tightly disciplined. Its headquarters is the Center for American Progress (CAP), a far-left think tank launched in July 2003. Headed by former Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta and funded with $10 million from George Soros, CAP serves as the premier platform for Hillary Clinton’s political activism.


"One of CAP’s missions, according to its charter, is to run "rapid response" media campaigns, for the purpose of debunking and discrediting troublesome press reports. In this respect, CAP’s mission echoes that of the so-called "War Room" which Hillary operated during the 1992 presidential campaign. According to the Washington Post:

"The war room was set up to gather as much intelligence as possible and quickly turn it to Clinton’s advantage. Campaign advisors tried to anticipate what stories reporters were working on in hopes of shaping those stories before they were written."


"Critical to the War Room’s success was James Carville’s so-called "rapid-response team" – an elite band of spinmeisters who prided themselves on their ability to intercept a Clinton scandal report at midnight and turn it around to Clinton’s advantage by 7 am the next morning.


"In view of these facts, Al Gore's use of the term "rapid responder" becomes less mysterious. But it is the Democrats, not the Republicans, who have honed rapid media response to a science."


15 posted on 07/18/2004 7:15:09 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Teresa Heinz Kerry: 'I have to say that John Edwards is very beautiful'...)
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To: Grampa Dave

So, again I ask, WHY did McCain push that restriction on free speech into HIS version of the campaign bill?

It makes no sense, and wasn't needed - Still isn't needed. But why did he add it?


16 posted on 07/18/2004 7:22:41 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly ... But Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS press corpse lies every day.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Unfortunately, McCain was/is probably tainted by $oreA$$.


17 posted on 07/18/2004 7:25:00 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Teresa Heinz Kerry: 'I have to say that John Edwards is very beautiful'...)
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To: Grampa Dave; Cincinatus' Wife; tallhappy; freedom44; TigerLikesRooster

Many thanks for the "digital brownshirts" ping, Grampa!


18 posted on 07/18/2004 7:28:55 AM PDT by risk
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To: risk

You are welcome.

Thank Richard for this great 3 part series to wake up conservatives to the most dangerous man in the world for American, George $oreA$$.


19 posted on 07/18/2004 7:39:53 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Teresa Heinz Kerry: 'I have to say that John Edwards is very beautiful'...)
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To: windchime

Thanks for you ping and indexing on the evil one, George $oreA$$.


20 posted on 07/18/2004 7:41:17 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Teresa Heinz Kerry: 'I have to say that John Edwards is very beautiful'...)
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