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Is Free Republic under Digital-Astroturfing Attack?
June 14, 2015 | Isara

Posted on 06/14/2015 2:48:41 PM PDT by Isara

We heard the news about Hillary's fake Twitter and Facebook followers and her operatives pretending to be her regular supporters. Is it possible that it also is happening right here on Free Republic Web site?

Free Republic is a premier Conservative site. Most of us know who, among the presidential candidates, is the most Conservative. Our candidate happens to be effective in his campaigning also. Our enemies know that and fear him the most. Naturally, Free Republic is turning into a battleground.

We don't know who they are: other Republican campaign operatives, GOPe, Hillary's camp, Democratic operatives, union thugs, Castro brothers, ISIS, LGBT, ACLU, etc. But they all share one common goal - to take Ted Cruz out. Since trust is Ted Cruz's strong point, they are trying to erode our trust of him.

You may notice that they came in the threads about Ted Cruz in teams, 2 or more at the same time. No matter how much we gave them the facts, these same people went to the next thread and repeated the same misinformation over and over again. This is why I think we are under attack.

Their strategies are:

I've detected that some patterns of their posting were shared among these operatives. Is it possible that there are a few of them pretending to be a lot more, just like Hillary's Twitter and Facebook followers?


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To: savedbygrace
You’re confusing changing the Constitution with violating the Constitution.

Same difference. Someone suffers a long period of time because of it. Just ask some Americans of Japanese descent from an eelier period in our history.

201 posted on 06/14/2015 6:11:35 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: CCGuy; xzins
I understand that. You are preaching to the choir. Like I said, that is why I was arguing that point days ago.

The problem is that Ted Cruz doesn't understand that point. He thinks he can ignore the Constitutional requirement of a 2/3 approval of the Senate and give the power to a simple majority of both houses.

That is dishonest. He has read the founding documents and the Federalist papers and he knows the history of the Treaty Clause. He probably has it memorized. But he is going along to get along because some supreme court ruled 100 years ago that the Constitution doesn't say what it says.

I had higher expectations of Ted Cruz. I thought he was different. Shame on me.

202 posted on 06/14/2015 6:16:27 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: Lazamataz
"With the advent of Disqus, whereinwhich you can comment directly on the article, and other conservative blogs such as Red State, we simply aren't on the enemy radar as much as we used to be. "

WINNER! WINNER! Chicken dinner.

203 posted on 06/14/2015 6:17:46 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: deport

The next thing he/she/it will say is that you are profiling.


204 posted on 06/14/2015 6:19:21 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: editor-surveyor

Actually my FRiend, I was on the Cruz bandwagon until the TPA hit. That was a really good kick in the teeth I have to admit. At least it was early in the cycle so my monetary and time expenditures were modest.

Fool me twice, shame on me.


205 posted on 06/14/2015 6:24:18 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat ( The ballot is a suggestion box for slaves and fools.)
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To: P-Marlowe

“I had higher expectations of Ted Cruz. I thought he was different. Shame on me.”

I know just how you feel about that. I think that is why I am so hurt by it. I think a lot of us are starting to get to a point where we feel we can’t trust anybody in regards to anything.


206 posted on 06/14/2015 6:24:50 PM PDT by CCGuy (USAF (Ret.))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Unless I missed the announcement, Jim doesn’t claim infallibility.


207 posted on 06/14/2015 6:24:53 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: P-Marlowe; CCGuy
The real treaty current event is the Irangate negotiations of Senator Palpatine from Tennessee....Bob Corker. Ted Cruz voted to allow a House/Senate vote to approve Obama's sell-out to Iran on nukes. It's a treaty. He helped turn the constitution on its head.

Corker

Palpatine


208 posted on 06/14/2015 6:24:56 PM PDT by xzins (Donate to the Freep-a-Thon or lose your ONLY voice. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins

Why did you post two pictures of the same guy?


209 posted on 06/14/2015 6:26:26 PM PDT by CCGuy (USAF (Ret.))
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To: Tijeras_Slim
"You probably could have paid A+Bert with beer, but he wasn’t really a troll, just cranky."

"That's a name I've not heard in a long time ..."

210 posted on 06/14/2015 6:27:13 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: CCGuy; P-Marlowe

So you think he’s a Star Wars look-alike, too. Amazing resemblance, isn’t it?


211 posted on 06/14/2015 6:27:21 PM PDT by xzins (Donate to the Freep-a-Thon or lose your ONLY voice. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Isara
What are we going to do about it?

This reminds me of the old westerns where someone yells "String em up.

212 posted on 06/14/2015 6:29:18 PM PDT by Stentor ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.)
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To: RKBA Democrat

Then which liar is your candidate? Even Reagan didn’t do what he said he would do.


213 posted on 06/14/2015 6:29:18 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Isara

Is this the paranoid nut job thread?


214 posted on 06/14/2015 6:30:02 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: Karl Spooner

No candidate whatsoever. I will probably go along with the majority of Americans and exercise my right to avoid any and all polling places in November 2016.


215 posted on 06/14/2015 6:35:11 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat ( The ballot is a suggestion box for slaves and fools.)
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To: xzins

It’s scary. They should have used him for the new one that is coming out in December.


216 posted on 06/14/2015 6:44:03 PM PDT by CCGuy (USAF (Ret.))
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To: Scrambler Bob

It happens, when you get older our eyes don’t function like they use to.


217 posted on 06/14/2015 6:44:50 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe Keystone Pipe lik Project : build it already Congress)
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To: RKBA Democrat

Sorry to hear that. God expects us to do something, even if it is wrong.


218 posted on 06/14/2015 6:50:46 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: caww

”I’d settle for the H1Bs if he stopped all illegal immigration and removed any government benefits from the ones who are already here so they self-deport”.....

Now that’s a great idea....I could go for that!

________________________________________________________

Why go for something which is harmful and non-beneficial to America? Because someone suggests we only have a limited choice?

No sale here. Those days are way over for me. We need millions more foreign nationals like we need a biological attack.


219 posted on 06/14/2015 7:02:47 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dforest

Agree on Jeb ZOTS.


220 posted on 06/14/2015 7:07:07 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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