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I wrote on Stormfront about how Iran probably got its TOTALLY free speech approach from me, the strategy that got David Irvin released via David Duke on TV here.

Rieman relied to me on Stormfront:

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Originally Posted by Riemann

I did not know that you were involved until I read this post. What I did notice at the time this all took place was the emphasis placed on Freedom of Speech, which I thought at the time seemed like a remarkably prescient strategy

So I replied to him:

I cannot prove this. I am sure that a hundred people in Iran are taking credit for it. I made a very good living for decades by giving practical political advice, so I'm good at it.

Having been senior staff myself, this is how I think it went down. One of the senior staff of the President of Iran figured that if President Reagan deided to get my advice on dealing with Americans, the President of Iran might benefit, too.

If David Duke were elected president and gave up eating, sleeping, exercise and everything else, he would only have the 168 hours there ARE in a week to do things himself. Hiring and listening to staff is absolutely basic in the big leagues.

If David made me staff, I would spend hundreds of hours on an issue he SHOULD be thinking about, if his time were infinite, and I would spend hours crafting a decision paper for him that contained less than one word per hour I spent on the project. He would need five minutes to do hundreds of hours of work by checking "Go with it" on the paper.

When Pat Buchanan was appointed Head of White House Communications, I recommended someone for his staff. He told me he wasn't going to HAVE any staff. I certainly like Pat, and supported him until he became a pure theologue, but it was clear to me that he was purely a protest candidate because he had no experience hiring and using staff.

Yes, I am prejudiced on this subject since high-level staffing was my profession. When you are listening to anybody, you need to take that sort of thing into account.

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