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Jim Robinson & FR accused of censorship
WhatReallyHappened.com ^ | 4 January 2002 | WRH.com goobers

Posted on 01/04/2002 10:01:12 PM PST by Vigilant1

FREE REPUBLIC ADMITS IT IS PRO-WAR AND CENSORS ALL POSTS NOT IN ACCORD WITH US GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA

NOW MAKING THE ROUNDS ON THE NET. Cited under "fair use" for educational purposes.

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Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 02:50:39 -0800
From: "Jim Robinson"
Organization: Free Republic
To: "Larry McDonald"
Subject: Re: What Are You Scared Of?

Those who are coming in here to post a bunch of propaganda to smear Bush or otherwise harm the war effort are going to be deleted.

I guess you missed my posts where I said that I am 100% behind our President and the war. I don't care if it's Ron Paul, Larry McDonald, or the head of the John Birch Society himself. I do not want it on FR. And I do not want a bunch of 40 year old conspiracy crap. Not interested.
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There you have it. Free Republic is not an objective reporter of the facts but a blatent supporter of the Bush administrations' war for oil, and by Jim Robinson's own admission.

In another post, Jim states...

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Jim Robinson (Free Republic)
by JIM ROBINSON in This thread

Lots of grumbling lately about deleted posts. Well, my friends, the simple truth is the game has changed. We are now at war.
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Of course, Jim Robinson has it wrong. We're not at war. Only Congress can state otherwise and there has been no formal declaration of war by anyone. Bush hasn't gone to Congress to ask for such a declaration because that would restore Congress to its role in the balance of powers doctrine on which the nation was founded. Bush has no intention of allowing Congress to second-guess him, and indeed Bush has flat out declared that he will not bother informing Congress of intelligence operations from this point forward as is required by law.

Yes, we have been attacked, but it's not really known by whom. Even the FBI admits the IDs on which they based their accusations were faked using the stolen identities of middle eastern Arabs, some of whom have since turned up alive. From this it should be obvious that we cannot really know who was on those planes, only who we are supposed to blame.

But Jim Robinson isn't interested in these facts. He's spiked threads pointing out that the FBI admitted the IDs used by the hijackers were phony. Jim Robinson has spiked threads about how some of the accused hijackers have turned up alive. Jim Robinson has spiked many of the threads dealing with the Israeli spy scandal and the fact that the US has classified evidence linking some of the arrested Israeli spies with the events of 9/11. Jim Robinson has spiked threads suggestng that Bush has exceeed his constitutional authority. Jim Robinson will tolerate no doubts about the righteousness of Bush's war for oil.

But more than that, Jim Robinson displays an arrogant assumption that the presence of a war justifies anything. He argues that we should get behind the government because (he claims) there is a war. But translate that to Germany of 1939. Was it the right thing for the German people to unquestioningly back Hitler because there was a war on? Or would the German people (and the world) have been better served taking a pause and a closer look at just what the government was doing? And if Germany should have examined their government's claims a lot closer, then how can we not do the same now?

Free Republic has shown its true colors. Jim is "not interested" in facts, only in selling Bush's wars. Free Republic isn't about news any more, only about propaganda.


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To: Restorer
If these weren't middle eastern Islamist terrorists, who do you think they are?

It was just a glitch in the matrix. Nothing really happened, but you took the wrong colored pill, so now you'll never find out the truth.

21 posted on 01/04/2002 10:11:32 PM PST by monkeyshine
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To: Commie Basher
Only Congress can declare war but the President as CnC of the US armed forces can deploy them however he wants. He doesn't need a declaration of war for that.
22 posted on 01/04/2002 10:11:55 PM PST by weikel
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To: Commie Basher
So let's see, our founders would have set back and allowed a foreign enemy to attack the U.S. and done nothing until the Congress officially declared war?

Seems to me that I remember our founders engaging in a little spat due to our ships being attacked by a foreign power. HMMM I wonder why ole TJ and company did not wait for a declaration........

23 posted on 01/04/2002 10:11:58 PM PST by Texaggie79
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To: Vigilant1;Travis McGee;Jim Robinson
btw- I don't think its possible that a private citizen can censor his own property? Its called editing.
24 posted on 01/04/2002 10:12:33 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Vigilant1
Jim Robinson & FR accused of censorship...by demented conspiracy theorist.

And now you know...the rest of the story.

26 posted on 01/04/2002 10:13:14 PM PST by The Great Satan
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK, Travis Mc Gee
Right On! GOD BLESS PRESIDENT BUSH AND JIM ROBINSON!

DAMN TO HELL Bush-bashers, M.R., and all other disruptor-trolls!

27 posted on 01/04/2002 10:13:30 PM PST by onyx
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To: weikel
No, Islamists prefer to emulate low, sneaking, degenerate creatures who rely on treachery since their perverse belief system can never stand the light of truth.
28 posted on 01/04/2002 10:13:43 PM PST by Post Toasties
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To: Vigilant1
I don't know about that - I've posted critical comments (about Bush, no difference between reps and dems, how homeland security is BS to be used against us, republican hypocracy on gun rights, etc) and none of them have been yanked.
And I can get pretty mean sometimes.
29 posted on 01/04/2002 10:13:46 PM PST by tomakaze
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To: Post Toasties
Yep.
30 posted on 01/04/2002 10:14:16 PM PST by weikel
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To: Vigilant1
You can email these jerks at rivero@whatreallyhappened.com,

Is that anti-American, antiSemite creep michael rivero up to his old tricks of propaganda again?

He *USED* to be a regular and favorite poster here - til he was banned ...

31 posted on 01/04/2002 10:14:17 PM PST by _Jim
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To: Vigilant1
Barbara Hartwell
code names: Sleeping Beauty, Blue Rose, and Black Angel.

a survivor of CIA MK ULTRA and PHOENIX Project, trained and utilized by CIA as a deep cover operative and professional CIA asset, under mind control programming, which the perpetrators of this mind control believed was "guaranteed under National Security".
Since 1996, I have gone public by exposing what I learned about these illegal covert operations through my own involvement and subsequent research, having been victimized and exploited by the U.S. Government since childhood.

Mz. Hartwell is currently living in a super duper secret cave deep in the heart of black helicoppterland.

32 posted on 01/04/2002 10:14:52 PM PST by Valin
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To: Vigilant1
There you have it. Free Republic is not an objective reporter of the facts but a blatent supporter of the Bush administrations' war for oil, and by Jim Robinson's own admission.

Come on, who are you trying to fool? "Blatant supporter." "War for oil" Your bias does not show through, huh? You hardly have a plateform from which to cry foul on objectivity.

Why are liberals always so confused, asigning their definitions of the world to everything and everyone else. Don't you get it, we don't think like you do.

FreeRepublic is a conservative forum - not a place for liberals to rant - or to tell us how bad George Bush is. You have forums for that, starting with most of the media.

33 posted on 01/04/2002 10:15:24 PM PST by BJungNan
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To: Vigilant1
Maybe someone should explain to him that tin foil is for cooking and TV antennas not haberdashery...
34 posted on 01/04/2002 10:15:32 PM PST by toupsie
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To: Post Toasties
yes this is an idiot, i send them a little hatemail, from a hotmail account just for the hell of it.
35 posted on 01/04/2002 10:15:41 PM PST by veryconernedamerican
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To: _Jim
You mean the government DIDN'T know about OKC before it happened?! But Mike has pics of the truck in a military base; that PROVES IT!!!!!

LOL

36 posted on 01/04/2002 10:15:51 PM PST by Texaggie79
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To: Vigilant1
**Cited under "fair use" for educational purposes.**

...and likely the only time Michael Rivero and "educational" will show up in the same thread.

Another Bush war for oil??? ((yawn)) Guess those CIA/NWO Islamic hijackers played right into their hands..hehehe

37 posted on 01/04/2002 10:16:52 PM PST by Tall_Texan
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To: Vigilant1
The best part of this is "Bush's war for oil".

Thousands of innocents murdered at work in the heart of our greatest city had nothing to do with it. What an idiotic boob.

38 posted on 01/04/2002 10:17:43 PM PST by Jonathon Spectre
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To: _Jim
Yeah, after reading all the responses, I got that impression. I just did a websearch on him, and only came up with conspirasy theory sites like American Holocaust.
39 posted on 01/04/2002 10:18:49 PM PST by Vigilant1
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To: Vigilant1
Well let me see. Jim or whiners. Jim or whiners? Well I guess I'll have to go with Jim even though it's a tough call.

Perhaps a better heaven is out there on the net somewhere. I sure haven't seen it. FreeRepublic is home. I am home.

Sorry dudes, you're barking up the wrong fire hydrant.

Of course it wasn't close, unless you consider the Crab Nebula close to the earth. That's about right.

40 posted on 01/04/2002 10:18:57 PM PST by DoughtyOne
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