Posted on 01/04/2002 11:27:11 PM PST by Republican_Strategist
Well said, it is the govt of any nation, that does the most harm to people or freedom. Just because we speak the same lingo as our leaders, does not mean we understand them.
Careful Buckerooster, your tin foil is slipping.
I was always surprised that someone could spam FR as much as he did anyway. Good riddance.
Like a lot of FReepers, I started out as a MR fan. Then, one day, I noted a technical inconsistency in one of his points. Thinking he'd be grateful for my insight into a field that has provided me a living for almost twenty years, I was dumbfounded to find myself being called a CIA shill. From that point on, I tripled my efforts to scrutinize Rivero's stuff and realized he was an anti-American - especially w/r to the military - fanatic. I began to suspect that the inconsistencies in his writings weren't simply the mistakes or deceptions of a single person, but disjointed cracks in material that was obviously sloppily compiled from various writers. That should have been enough to damn the guy as a propagandist. But someone else pointed out that his use of syntax and vocabulary in the Kursk material (his absolute worst propaganda faux pas) was obviously translated from a foreign language even though Rivero claimed authorship. I have ten years of experience reading translated documents, especially documents translated from Chinese - and in going over the Kursk stuff and a lot of Rivero's earlier stuff... the observation was DEAD ON!
Conclusion: Rivero is a disinformation plant, in my opinion sponsored by the Chinese. He could very well be a dupe or a patsy, but I doubt it... he's too thorough and relentless w/r to ignoring and refuting the hardest fact and logic when it was shoved in his face. It's FR's biggest embarrassment that he was allowed to crap in our sandbox for as long as he did.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
What is a "substantiated baseless opinion", Buckerooster?
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Excellent. I get my butt flamed on a regular basis when I claim that Ann Coulter, David Horowitz, and... to an extent... Alan Keyes perform this function in the mainstream media.
Good post.
BTW...this is Michael Rivero signing in from Ohio. He's like the tourist guy...he's everywhere at ALL times. (that's according to YOUR befuddled logic, unless of course they gave ya too many experiMENTAL drugs at the asylum))
Maybe but I always liked those threads and I could read opinions back and forth. Waco was a real eye-opener about the government.
Those photos were shown side by side on Fox News.
I wonder how much Michael was paid to manipulate them.
Check out the other link.
They are really going after MR on that one.
Point taken. I was entertained too, at first. But when someone arrives at FR's door, gets invited in, and then proceeds to relentlessly and unabashedly push an agenda painting the US military as unilaterally evil and corrupt, he degrades the very purpose of the forum and damages any credibility that we might have accumulated as a serious conservative venue. His posts furthered the agenda of the openly anti-military Clinton administration, and, as I observed, gave every appearance of originating with foreign (Chinese) sources.
I don't think I agree. Rivero was consistent in his anti-government diatribes to a fanatical extent. Every important event involving the government was, in his view, a coverup involving malfeasance and sinister acts. The Kursk incident took the cake. His insistence that the US Navy was responsible from the start was incredible, and only got worse. Fanatical belief, in the face of all the facts, betrayed a mindset that did more than cast doubts on any assertion he made. It moved him into the wacko category where nothing he said could be trusted.
Still, not all his posts were regarding government plots. He weighed in on many matters involving history, religion, and philosophy. His opinions on those matters were usually controversial, but I think they actually contributed to the discussion. Michael Rivero is not a dumb person by any measure. His writing indicated a high degree of intelligence.
I don't think the Chinese or anyone else had to recruit him. He was highly-motivated by his own preconceptions, and his failing was that he never let fact or reason get in the way of those.
I found him entertaining to read, although I quickly lost interest in his conspiracy threads. Wack job city.
Balderdash! I don't remember Michael ever doing that.
Wow!
Experts say it probably can't be done, but our own Michel can manipulate them?
I AM stunned now.
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