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Mike Rivero was a long-time freeper.

I don't defend antisemitism, if there is any on his site. I would point out that these days, many left-wing sites are virulently antisemitic. But they get away with it because they are politically correct.

What I have found valuable about Rivero's work is that he does, indeed, provide a lot of very useful links to useful materials.

Some of his conspiracies seem like tin-foil hat material to me. Others I am inclined to say are true stories that have been covered up by a habitually lying media. In the latter category are Waco and OKC, Ron Brown and Vince Foster. Not to say that everything anyone has ever posted about these matters is true, but that since the media have agreed to conspire to cover them up, we need all the resources we can get to uncover them and get them out into the open. Let people decide for themselves what is true and what isn't.

We agree. You know, believe it or not, the Government is sometimes less than forthcoming. A lot of what Michael Rivero posted was not solidly based, but some of it was. The problem with this post is that it seeks to conclude that therefore anything advocated by Rivero is, ipso facto, false. That which has some substance does not pass into falsehood merely because he, along with others, pointed it out.

We believe, for example, that polls have consistently shown that the majority of Americans do not believe that the Warren Report really brought out the truth, whatever it may be. The same can be said about many other such commissions and inquiries.

We seem to have accepted, until the recent development of the Internet, that government "inquiries" are entitled to obscure as much as they reveal.

Sometimes these things are more of a culture of resistance to truth when it is inconvenient rather than an active conspiracy to cover up.

Rivero also questioned the official theory about TWA 800 going down because of the center wing fuel tank.

Having followed Rivero's posts here extensively, if he was anti-Semitic, he kept it fairly quiet. Regardless, he made some excellent points which led to lengthy threads.

It's a shame that some interesting posters like Rivero, Black Jade, ratcat and, most recently, OKCSubmariner have been banned.