Reply #10: I also believe that freerepublic was deeply involved

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with the "Swift Boat Veterans".

About 2 weeks b/f the November election, I saw an odd post on Libertypost.org. (Libertypost is a sort of spin-off from freerepublic; unlike freerepublic, people are allowed to criticize Bush there, though libertypost's owner is a raving Bush robot.)

The odd post was a copy of a post on freerepublic. I wish I could remember which freeper posted it, I'm thinking he was called something like "Navy Vet"; can't remember exactly.

He had announced that there was going to be a Swift Boat rally somewhere in D.C. It sounded like a hastily-arranged last-chance-to-smear-Kerry thing.

So the thread under his announcement grew, as they commented, and many of them swore to help and attend the rally. But then, all of a sudden, the freeper posted this: "I have been ordered to stand down." He then said the rally was cancelled.

WHO "ordered him to stand down" (those were his exact words)???