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Was
Wellstone assassinated?
The first question really was, how could anyone be crazy enough
NOT to ask the question seriously? It has become quite fashionable
to heap instant disdain and superior ridicule on any talk of
foul play and conspiracy in high places as a sign of "mania"
or "paranoia", but as some have pointed out, the fact
that so many people were quick to raise suspicions is nothing
but a healthy sign, regardless of what the story turns out to
be! Perhaps the public is starting to wake up to reality and
understand, "it DOES happen here"? What is undeniable
is that politics by airplane crash is an old tradition and has
been practiced around the world. Many people quickly recalled
other shady "accidents" from the past. Some pointed
out by Mike Ruppert:
Rep. Hale Boggs, D-La., was killed in 1972 and had been an
outspoken member of the Warren Commission investigating the
assassination of JFK. Various sources reported that he had
openly expressed doubts about the commission's findings.
Rep. Jerry Litton, D-Mo., was killed while campaigning for
a U.S. Senate seat from Missouri nearly two months before
the 1976 election. This was exactly the same fate that was
to befall Missouri Democratic Gov. Mel Carnahan twenty-four
years later.
Rep. Larry McDonald, D-Ga. and the national chairman of the
John Birch Society and creator of a private intelligence operation
called Western Goals, was killed on KAL 007 after it had mysteriously
veered off course on a flight to South Korea and ventured
several hundred miles into Soviet territory. The plane was
shot down by the Soviet air force. At the time, McDonald's
Western Goals was being exposed in an LAPD intelligence scandal
linked to massive domestic spying, the CIA and covert operatives
like Gen. John Singlaub.
Rep. Larkin Smith, D-Miss. was killed in a private plane
crash in 1989. At the time he had been working with veterans
of U.S. Army Special Forces looking into the deaths of five
Green Beret colonels, all of whom had been connected to a
covert CIA drug operation known as Watchtower. [Details of
Smith's death are included in the FTW package "The Tyree Papers."]
Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, a Democrat, was killed in
a plane crash in Croatia on April 3, 1996. There are many
unresolved mysteries with this incident, not the least of
which is a color photograph of a post mortem Brown, which
is frequently displayed by comedian/activist Dick Gregory,
clearly showing a bullet wound in the back of his skull. John
Tower, a recently retired Republican senator from Texas known
for his heavy drinking, was writing a book about the Iran-Contra
affair when he was killed in a plane crash in 1991. Tower
had reportedly been extremely unhappy when he had been denied
an appointment as secretary of defense by President George
Herbert Walker Bush. Tower had also been the chairman of a
Reagan-appointed independent commission investigating Iran-Contra.
In a recent investigative piece at FTW, Ruppert draws the following
conclusions, which are supported by other researchers:
• icing or adverse weather conditions were not to blame.
• pilot error was very unlikely. Two very experienced
pilots were on board.
• the King Air 100 is a remarkably reliable and safe aircraft.
Also, Ruppert reports off-the-record Congressional sources
who believe Wellstone was murdered.
The following, after some interesting local opinion from Twin
Cities, as well as a re-post of the important FTW article:
WELLSTONE
911 PARALLELS OF PEOPLE WAS PAUL WELLSTONE MURDERED?
Democrats Twice As Likely to Die In Crashes
The following article nails the fundamental problems with the
mass media's instant mantras about "bad weather" and
"icing", as well as other forensic anomalies.
As CNNFirst Reported: Breaking News.
The crews on the ground found two large sections of plane.
The tail section was intact. The weather did not have anything
to do with the crash, said the on the scene reporter.
Wolf Blitzer tried to correct her. He said, The plane was
flying into the storm of freezing rain, right?
There is no evidence that weather had anything to do with the
crash. The on-the-scene reporter stuck to her guns.
Wellstone
Plane Was Out Of Control — Media Survey
(Rick Ensminger, 30 Oct 02)
It is quite clear that icing was not a major issue that day,
and that the King Air should not have had any problems in those
conditions. This was verified by testimony from other pilots
and airport personnel. Nonetheless, the media tried to use innuendo
to keep the idea alive, as with this
article from CNN.
A good summary of some of the most incriminating facts:
How very convenient.
How very damned convenient. ~ L. Neil Smith, 1995
L. Neil wrote
these bitterly sarcastic words in response to the 1995 bombing
of the Murrah building in Oklahoma City, but they seem to
resonate more strongly every day, as calamities pile up, seemingly
always in the furtherance of State power. So, with the
recent death of Minnesota's Senator Wellstone, it's my turn
to say it:
How very convenient...
An early article from Portland
Indymedia contained what is still one of the most apt observations
about the whole affair:
Sherlock Holmes solved at least one case by noticing that something
that should be present was missing. In the Hound of the Baskervilles,
he solved the case by noticing that no one reported a barking
dog. So what's missing in terms of the Wellstone plane crash?
For the last 14 months, anytime there has been a plane crash,
the media go way overboard in assuming that this must somehow
be a terrorist incident. The initial reaction of the media in
the first hours of the event is always now "oh my, I hope this
isn't happening again. I hope this isn't another terrorist attack."
Just a few days ago, there was a news story that Al-Queda may
be targeting US Senators. The story referred to the possibilities
of sniper attacks on golf courses. Just a few days later, a US
Senator dies. So, what's missing? Sen. Wellstone's plane crashes,
and there is absolutely no speculation that this is a terrorist
attack. Somehow the media immediately knows that this plane crash
was caused by bad weather, and this is in no way a terrorist attack.
The media dog has been barking "terrorist" steadily for 14 months.
Today the dog didn't bark.
The Trotskyist World Socialist Web Site noted that although Wellstone
was a standard "bourgeois politician", there are ramifications
and dangers resulting from his death that are of importance even
to more radical thinkers who don't share his liberal view:
The
death of US Senator Paul Wellstone: accident or murder?
(WSWS 29 October 2002)
Interesting info & speculation here about the polticial connections
of Raytheon, maker of Wellstone's aircraft, the possibility of
electronic jamming in the crash, and — very importantly —
reports of a televised witness who saw a bright WHITE FLASH,
similar to witness testimony in the suspicious crash of JFK, Jr:
Letters
from readers on the Wellstone plane crash (WSWS,
2 November 2002)
• The plane's wings were detached in the crash, but it was
the fuselage that burned and disintegrated in an intense
fire. Since the Beechcraft's fuselage contains no fuel -- only
the wings do -- how did the fuselage burn up, while the wings stayed
partially intact, as seen in photos? Why did witnesses "blue-gray"
smoke instead of the usual thick black smoke from aviation fuel
fires?
Wellstone
and Sept. 11: The Uncanny Connections (Christopher
Bollyn, AFP. 1 Nov 02)
TWIN
CITIES IMC — which has played an important role in
getting info out.
The NTSB says it could take a "long
time" to discover the cause of the crash. Does this mean,
for example, they will take as much time as they have spent covering
up the truth about Flight
800?
at least one witness heard an explosion: http://www.brainerddispatch.com/stories/102802/sne_1028020018.shtml
Was there a previous assassination attempt on Wellstone when
he visited Columbia?
History
Of Assassination And Poisoning Attempts On Senator Wellstone
(links)
Wellstone was an opponent of "Plan Columbia" and a
fierce critic of military aid to Columbia. Concerning incident
of the pesticide spraying, it's worth a tangential mention that
the spraying program is run by the very notorious Dyncorp.
Many were surprised to see the following show up at Yahoo News.
In addition to a frank discussion of the possibility of Wellstone's
assassination, Ted Rall brings up some of the contradictions about
the black boxes:
THE
(POSSIBLE) ASSASSINATION OF PAUL WELLSTONE
By Ted Rall
Many of the arguments about Wellstone's politics and what kind
of threat he posed to the Bush administration miss this critical
fact, pointed out by Al Martin:
It should be remembered that Wellstone also was the chairman
of the new securities reform committee. And it was Wellstone
who was attempting to block the nomination of the notorious
William Webster, former CIA and FBI head and the Best Friend
of Big Business and the Big Accounting Firms, to be the new
chairman of the SEC/ Accounting "Oversight" Commission. If the
Republicans wanted to take anybody out, this was THE guy.
Will
the Stupidity of the American People Ever End?
(Al Martin, 28 Oct 2002)
Salon.com tries to ridicule assassination suspicions...
Idiocy
of the week AlterNet, Ted Rall and the Wellstone-was-murdered
conspiracy. (Andrew Sullivan, 30 Oct 02)
Of course,this is fitting behavior for Salon, which recently
knucked under to establishment media pressure and screwed investigative
reporter Jason
Leopold, who has been writing hard-hitting material about
Enron...
While the conspiracy-phobic left/liberal press awkwardly struggles
with raising questions about Wellstone, the right-leaning World
Net Daily, often a mouthpiece for ridiculous neocon agitprop,
has run a remarkably even-handed and respectful piece. An amazing
juxtaposition...
Was
Wellstone assassinated? (WND, 31 Oct 02)
a little background reading...
Sherman Skolnick: THE SECRET HISTORY OF AIRPLANE SABOTAGE
part
one / part
two / part
three / part
four
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