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03 July 2006
Mon, 03 Jul 2006 23:20:00 GMTAmerican Assassination
The strange death of senator Paul Wellstone
The case is made that Wellstone was assassinated. At this point in time, there isn’t much that I would put above the bush administration, or whatever shady cabal is currently heading our country. The case is made, and convincing enough for me. It’s hard for me to believe this sort of thing, but I think that I’m well on the way.
My willingness to take the assassination point of view does stem greatly from my bitter hate of the bush administration and my remorse over the death of Wellstone, so do watch out for the foam coming from my mouth.
An administration that would lie to send hundreds of thousands of young American men and women into harm’s way is not an administration that would hesitate to kill a single senator. 38
I sometimes feel like the authors fall back all to readily on the logical base they use to build up their arguments, that more emphasis is put upon the framework used to debunk than the actual debunking, but the motive alone of the Bush administration is enough to steer me right into the same conclusions. Further evidence gathered from eyewitnesses and inconsistencies in the established explanation only help firm things up in my head, and reduce my unwanted self image as that of a rabid nutcase conspiracy theorist.
...conspiracy theories have become a source of thrills for a bored subculture, one epitomized by its members’ reinterpretation of “accepted” history, deep cynicism about contemporary politics, and longing for some utopian future. 72
The last two fit me quite well, I would hope that not the first. I surely shouldn’t be bored, I have more things on my hands right now than I really want.
The further rigging of the NTSB’s ability to investigate plane crashes as criminal (the Attorney General can rule out terrorism as a possible cause in the NTSB’s investigation, further whatever the NTSB determines to be probable cause in a plane crash cannot be entered as evidence into a court of law. 132).
This sort of thing just makes my head hurt.
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25 October 2005
Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:03:00 GMTWellstone
I just watched Wellstone!, and you’d better go see it yourself. Wellstone died three years ago today.
These days, with fucking baboons dominating american politics, I’d sure love to see a guy like Paul show his face.
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22 July 2005
Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:26:37 GMT Paul Wellstone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediavia Kjell Olsen2497 days agoI felt that in the light of the last post I might as well showcase my number one political hero, Paul Wellstone. It might have been that I was at an impressionable age while he was a prominent figure in local politics (I tend to think it was because he was simply a spectacular person), but he is my number one cultural icon.
He was just an honest and hard working guy, who spoke from his heart and worked for what he felt was right. The thing that makes him stand out against his peers is that he was a good man before he was a politician. In the throes of his final campaign he voted against the resolution for war with Iraq, after confessing to his wife just that morning that the vote would cause him to lose his senate race. Nobody in politics today is as earnest a man as he was, I don’t know if anyone will ever be.
Here are a few Wellstone quotes, a quick primer on his life, and the Wellstone Action Foundation.
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Fri, 22 Jul 2005 11:28:00 GMT
Norm Coleman: Minister of Agitprop | Ari Bermanvia Kjell Olsen2497 days ago
I worked a few times for the Wellstone campaign before Wellstone was killed (just days before the election), and seeing Coleman sitting in his place still just floors me. Mostly because Wellstone was the best politician I ever knew, and in comparison Coleman is just scum. And it shows.
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