Just saw this and my stomach sank.
Sen. Paul Wellstone Dies in Plane Crash
I first thought was holy shit, and my second thought conditioned by long habit was ‘This close to election day? With the senate up for grabs?’. I just don’t know about this. It might be just coincidence, but what a coincidence. The Senate’s most liberal senator dies in a plane crash? A couple of weeks before election day. Remember that Paul Wellstone was one of the few senators to oppose the Iraq resolution. He actually changed his position at the last moment. Be sure to vote out all your war-mongers this election day!
I’m not saying there is necessarily anything nefarious about this just that this is incredibly strange. It might be recalled that during the last elections Democrat Mel Carnahan also died in a plane crash.
Just a reminder of some of the strange political deaths that have taken place during the two Bush administrations and the Clinton administration. Lots of unexplained plane crashes and ‘suicides’.
Paul Wilcher
His partially decomposed body was found in his home, still
seated on the toilet. According to the Washington Times,
“…he was investigating the theory of an ‘October Surprise’
conspiracy during the 1980 federal election campaign. He had
been interviewing an inmate who claimed to have piloted
George Bush to Paris so he could secretly seek to delay the
release of 52 American hostages in Iran.”
Sid Adger
Mr. Adger, a Houston oil supply company executive and Bush
family friend, died in 1996 of unknown causes. Adger was the
mysterious businessman who approached General James Rose and
asked him to help George W. Bush avoid Vietnam by
recommending him for a pilot position with the National
Guard.
General James Rose
General Rose recommended George W. Bush for a pilot position
with the Texas National Guard. He died of unknown causes in
1993. He was immediately buried and no autopsy was
performed.
Senator John Tower
He was appointed by the Reagan/Bush Administration to chair
the bipartisan committee to investigate the Iran/Contra
scandals. He directed the Tower Report and had all the Iran
Contra documents that told the real story. He was killed in
an airplane crash later in Georgia in 1991. Also killed was
his daughter, Marian.
Mario Ruiz Massieu
An apparent suicide, Massieu was facing charges that he
laundered money for the cocaine cartels. A Houston, Texas
jury had found that $8 million in his bank accounts was paid
to him by cocaine cartels.
Ron Brown
The Commerce Secretary died on April 3, 1996, in an Air Force jet carrying Brown and 34 others, including 14 business executives on a trade mission to Croatia, crashed into a mountainside. The Air Force, in a 22-volume report issued in June of 1996, confirmed its initial judgment that the crash resulted from pilot errors and faulty navigation equipment At the time of Brown’s death, Independent Counsel Daniel Pearson was seeking to determine whether Brown had engaged in several sham financial transactions with longtime business partner Nolanda Hill shortly before he became secretary of commerce.
Charles Meissner
Following Ron Brown’s death, John Huang was placed on a Commerce Department contract that allowed him to retain his security clearance
by Charles Meissner. Shortly thereafter, Meissner died in the crash of a small plane. He was an Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Economic Policy.
William Colby
Retired CIA director was found dead on May 6,1996 after his wife reported him missing on April 27,1996. Apparently, Colby decided to go on a impromptu canoeing excursion and never returned. Colby who had just started writing for Strategic Investment newsletter, worried many in the intelligent community. Colby’s past history of divulging CIA secrets in the past were well known. Strategic Investor had covered the Vince Foster suicide and had hired handwriting experts to review Foster’s suicide note.
Scary stuff. You can’t trust the powers that be to not murder or assassinate others.
Interesting. Didn’t Wellstone change his mind at the last minute re: not voting for the war? One wonders what he knew.
As someone who was lucky enough to vote for him in 1990 (I was in college), I have to say that I’m deeply crushed at this loss for a lot of reasons.
I’m sort of crushed that I never heard anything significant about him before today. It seems he was an amazing man…