Posted on 10/08/2002 8:48:46 PM PDT by chudogg
For somebody as earnest, smart and church-mouse-quiet as Lori Price, she sure gets called some awful names.
Every day, or just about, people she has never met send her notes to inform her that she is "moron." "Retarded" and "idiot," too. Not long ago, a fellow wrote to suggest that she "Get a [expletive] life you piece of [expletive]."
What has Price done to earn so many enemies? She is an Internet activist who, in the space of a few months, has collected more than 15,000 signatures on an online petition (www. petitiononline.com/11601TFS/petition.html).
The petition, which she plans to send to the U.S. Senate sometime soon, asks Congress to investigate "oddities" about Sept. 11. What's got people angriest is this: Price's suggestion that President Bush had "possible foreknowledge" that planes would hit the World Trade Center.
Her evidence is not compelling, and her claim is, many people would say, frankly absurd. But Price is bright (a Brandeis University grad) and driven - she's online every day from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., gathering information and news for Citizens for a Legitimate Government, the anti-Bush website she and others run. She is essentially a volunteer but draws a small salary from CLG's founder, an activist named Michael Rectenwald.
Recently, Price took time out to talk about Bush, her website, her petition and the unusual bumper sticker on her car.
Q: Why do you do this, and why do you devote so much time to this effort?
A: Well, in my opinion and some other people's opinions as well, this election was stolen - the 2000 election. That is not the person in the White House that won the election. It's not just the popular vote. That's on record that Gore won that. But the Florida situation, the purging of the votes. And it's become more frustrating because Bush early on said he would govern from the center.
Q: Bipartisanship and compassionate conservatism?
A: That went so out of the window. Early on you have conservative columnists saying Bush is seizing dictatorial power. You have conservatives openly calling this a dictatorship. This cannot be considered governing from the middle.
Q: With the petition and the online activism, what are you hoping to achieve? What is the end goal?
A: The petition is becoming more than what I ever dreamed in terms of getting [attention]. Someone from Japan found it, and I guess they have a weekly political magazine, and they wrote to me about interviewing me. I heard from a German radio station. There is an interest there, far more than I ever dreamed. To be honest with you, I thought I'd just get a few hundred signatures of people I know on the Internet and their friends. I never dreamed the response I got.
You ask me what I expect to achieve with this. Well, people are not feeling that they're alone in their thinking that these questions should be answered.
I mean, the best you could give George Bush with 9/11 is to say he was criminally negligent. And the worst, it's horrible to think, but there's pieces of the puzzle that you can't put the puzzle together without him being involved. To go there, to make that leap, you need a lot more evidence and proof and time. You certainly can't just go making a leap like that, saying he was directly involved. You need a lot more research before you can make a statement like that.
I noticed that not everyone who has signed the petition is a supporter of yours. Some write on there, "You're nuts." What do you make of those?
There were some horrible comments. Nobody should be putting anything off-color on any petition, anywhere. And people should be busy signing petitions for causes they agree with.
We have a term called "freeping it." If a petition is "freeped," that means people from the [conservative] Freerepublic.com site - they call themselves "Freepers" - they tip a poll their way. You can tell by talking in your communities that there are a lot of people against going into Iraq. But you wouldn't know it because if MSNBC puts up a poll, the Free Republic will "freep" it.
But anyway, yes, there are people who disagree with the petition. I wish they'd be a little classier in their disagreement.
What does the bumper sticker on your car say?
"Bush Knew." That's a term that is floating around the Internet, referring to [the claim] that Bush knew prior to 9/11 that it would occur or had something to do with the attacks themselves.
Is that something you actually believe or are you just trying to stir up people to talk?
My philosophy on Bush with 9/11 - and I know you're not going to believe this, but I don't want to think it's true what I believe. As much as I really don't like Bush - I think he's not a curious man, he's not presidential - I still wouldn't want to believe what I believe. But I do. And this is what it is: At the best, he's criminally negligent for letting 9/11 occur. And at the worst, he possibly could have had something to do with these attacks because Bush is quoted as saying, "I hit the trifecta" after 9/11. Bush said that, because a week before 9/11, his polls were at the lowest point. He said [during the 2000 campaign], I will not touch Social Security except in cases of war, recession or national emergency, [the so-called "trifecta"].
So a lot of activists add to their signature lines the quote, "I hit the trifecta."
What radicalized you? What got you thinking about this ?
I was very unhappy with the Starr investigation of Bill Clinton. If they spent the money that Ken Starr spent on investigating, in my opinion, a private sexual affair on investigating anthrax ...
What do you think about Iraq?
It's a serious mistake if this country goes into Iraq. Is this now a new precedent that the United States can go in and attack just on the basis of not liking the regime in power? This is going to create more terrorists. This is going to create people with nothing to live for in other countries.
(Excerpt) Read more at ctnow.com ...
Ah well, its not every day I see Free Republic mentioned in my local paper, so i finally got around to posting it.
Curious to know the author's definition of "presidential" - surely it would be tilted left....
More like, bends to the left.
For example, she's willing to publicly condemn GWB of a great crime against the US on nothing more than an offhand statement he is alleged to have made yet she blithely dismisses what Kenneth Starr meticulously documented regarding x42 which ultimately resulted in his impeachment, and which even the most fervent Lefties do not deny occurred.
Well, there's her problem right there. She's still under the influence of the Kool-Aid.
16173. Lori R. Price ***From petition author:*** Lyndon Larouche spies: stop harassing the petition signatories. Lyndon "Karl Rove" Larouche is a CIA operative. This petition is NOT from or associated with Lyndon Larouche, who works with the Bush Fourth Reich, to discredit liberal activists and organizations.
Needless to say, I about fell out of my chair laughing. But I noticed most of the signatures were from people living outside of the US.
In any event, I think this petition is in need of a good Freeping. Perhaps a couple hundred fake signatures should be enough to derail the efforts of this mentally deranged seditionist.
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It's a term we see and use everyday. I just never thought about its origin until this article.
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