> Mike Ruppert on Wellstone crash > Was Paul Wellstone Murdered? ... > A HISTORY TOO FULL OF COINCIDENCES > From a historical standpoint > Democrats are twice as likely to die in air crashes as Republicans. > Frequently, those who have died were known to have been either involved > in the investigation of covert operations or to have taken highly > controversial positions in opposition to vested government interests. > Sam Smith of the Progressive Review (www.prorev.com) published an Oct. > 25 story titled "Politicians Killed In Plane Crashes." For his source he > used a wonderful database found at http://politicalgraveyard.com > Of 22 air crashes involving state and federal officials, including one > ambassador (Arnold Raphael) and one cabinet official (Ron Brown), FTW > found that 14 (64 percent) were members of the Democratic Party and 8 > (36 percent) were members of the Republican Party. > If the list was limited to only elected members of Congress, the total was > eight Democrats and four Republicans. Six of the fatalities occurred during > election campaigns. Of those, four were Democrats and two were > Republicans. Maybe Democrats can't afford the same type of planes that > Republicans can. That certainly was not the case with Paul Wellstone who > was killed in a Beechcraft King Air 100, twin turboprop. The King Air is > a favorite of many politicians and is widely regarded as the "Cadillac" > of twin-engined propeller driven airplanes. ... > THE WELLSTONE CRASH > Perhaps no member of the Senate ranked higher on the Bush > Administration's enemies list than Minnesota Democrat Paul Wellstone. And > the enmity goes back years to when Bush's father was president. The Nov. 4 > issue of Time recounts an encounter between Wellstone and the elder Bush > after which he referred to Wellstone as "this chickenshit." And it is known > that there has been at least one prior reported attempt on Wellstone's life. > In the months before his death Wellstone had voted against several key > Bush agendas including Homeland Security, the Iraqi use of force > resolution and many of Bush's judicial nominees. In a Senate controlled > 50-49 by the Democrats, Wellstone was perhaps the single one-man > obstacle to Bush's fervent and stated desire to secure passage of the > Homeland Security measure prior to a U.S. invasion of Iraq. ... > What does that leave? It leaves us with three dead Democratic senatorial > candidates (Litton - 1976, Carnahan - 2000, and Wellstone - 2002) who > all died in small private airplanes just days before critical elections. > > ARGUING WITH BLITZER OVER THE DEATH OF A KNOWN TARGET > Many experienced internet researchers, especially post-9-11, understand the > importance of immediately securing local press reports and eyewitness > statements to pivotal events in the moments after they occur. Several keen > observers were able to transcribe the following live dialogue between an > on-the-scene reporter and CNN's Wolf Blizter. Reporter: There is no > evidence that weather had anything to do with the crash. > Blizter: But the plane was flying into some sort of ice storm, was it not? > Reporter: There is no evidence that the weather had anything to do with the > crash. According to these observers CNN immediately cut away from the > on-scene reporter who was not heard from again. Other watchers noted a crawl > along the bottom of the screen which, they said, ran only one time, > "Weather not a factor in crash." Yet the stories currently posted on the > CNN site still suggest that the crash was caused by bad weather and > icing. Paul Wellstone had been a target of an assassin once before. He > was strident opponent of Plan Colombia, a U.S. military aid package > which involves massive aerial spraying of lands believed to be growing > cocaine and the use of private military contractors employed by > companies like DynCorp. Wellstone had traveled to Colombia to evaluate > the program. Shortly after his arrival on Dec. 1, 2000, as reported by a > number of news sources including the AP, a bomb was found along his > route from the airport. Although the State Department later downplayed > the incident, the general opinion was, and remains, that as an outspoken > critic of CIA and covert operations, Wellstone had indeed been a target. > Those suspicions gained credibility the next day when Wellstone and his > staff were sprayed with glyphosate, a chemical that has been routinely > documented as the cause of a variety of illnesses in the local > population. It has left certain regions of Colombia, as one native put > it, "Without butterflies or birds." > One anonymous author, using the pen name Voxfux, actually predicted > Wellstone's assassination in spring 2001. The story can be read at > http://www.voxnyc.com In that missive the author predicted, "If the death > occurs just prior to the midterm senatorial elections, expect it to be in a > state with a close race. Expect a 'Mel Carnahan' style hit." ...
[Full story available on request. --Chris]
