- Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone was a serious man who cared
profoundly about his fellow citizens. He took courageous stands against
an administration that he viewed with profound suspicion, arguing eloquently
against tax cuts for the rich, the subversion of the Constitution, and
violating international accords. He would have led the opposition to the
war in Iraq if only he had had the chance. Everyone knew it and he may
have died because of it.
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- For nearly a year now, evidence has been accumulating
about the event that ended the life of this magnificent human being. Whatever
caused the crash was not the plane, the pilots or the weather. In spite
of what you may have heard, the plane was exceptional, the pilots well-qualified
and the weather posed no significant problems. Even the National Transportation
Safety Board's own simulations of the plane, the pilots and the weather
were unable to bring the plane down.
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- This means we have to consider other, less palatable,
alternatives, such as small bombs, gas canisters or electromagnetic pulse,
radio frequency or High Energy Radio Frequency weapons designed to overwhelm
electrical circuitry with an intense electromagnetic field. An abrupt cessation
of communication between the plane and the tower took place at about 10:18
a.m., the same time an odd cell phone phenomenon occurred with a driver
in the immediate vicinity. This suggests to me the most likely explanation
is that one of our new electromagnetic weapons was employed.
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- The politics of the situation were astonishing. The senator
was pulling away from the hand-picked candidate of the Bush machine. Its
opportunity to seize control of the U.S. Senate was slipping from its grasp.
Its vaunted "invincibility" was being challenged by an outspoken
critic of its most basic values. Targeted for elimination, he was going
to survive. Here's one man's opinion: Under such conditions, the temptation
to take him out may have been irresistible.
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- Among the striking indications that something was wrong
with the NTSB in its inquiry into the causes of the crash is that Carol
Carmody, a former employee with the CIA, the head of the team, announced
the day after that the FBI had found no indications of terrorist involvement.
Yet it is the responsibility of the NTSB to ascertain the cause of the
crash, which has yet to be determined to this very day.
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- So how could the FBI possibly know?
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- The FBI's prompt arrival was peculiar. As Christopher
Bollyn of American Free Press reported (www.rumor millnews.net, Oct. 29,
2002), "According to Rick Wahlberg, then St. Louis County sheriff,
a team of FBI agents was quickly on the crash site about noon, less than
an hour after (assistant manager Gary) Ulman and the (fire) chief had first
located the site and found a way to access the wreck. This FBI team had
come from the distant Twin Cities in record time!"
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- When Bollyn "asked Ulman if he had notified the
FBI about the accident, Ulman said he had not spoken with the bureau at
any time. Asked how the FBI got to the site so quickly, Ulman said that
he assumed they had come from Duluth. AFP contacted the Duluth office of
the FBI and was told that the team of 'recovery' agents had not come from
Duluth but had traveled from the FBI office in Minneapolis."
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- I calculate that this team would have had to have left
the Twin Cities at about the same time the Wellstone plane was taking off.
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- Gary Ulman confirmed to me that the FBI had been on the
scene no later than 1 p.m.
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- I have reviewed the log books maintained by the Sheriff's
Department at Eveleth and have discovered that they are grossly incomplete
and cannot confirm when the FBI showed up.
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- The FAA has told me that its records of private aircraft
arriving in Duluth that morning have been destroyed, even though they might
verify the FBI's early arrival.
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- And the NTSB has canceled sessions where it would ordinarily
take input from the public.
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- Michael Ruppert (fromthe wilderness.com, Nov. 1, 2002)
has reported, "The day after the crash I received a message from a
former CIA operative who has proven extremely reliable in the past and
who is personally familiar with these kinds of assassinations. The message
read, 'As I said earlier, having played ball (and still playing in some
respects) with this current crop of reinvigorated old white men, these
clowns are nobody to screw around with. There will be a few more strategic
accidents. You can be certain of that.' "
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- If you think that's a stretch, consider: Hundreds of
young Americans have been put in harm's way by a war that was promoted
on the basis of lies about weapons of mass destruction, collaboration with
Osama bin Laden, and Sept. 11.
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- Some 3,000 Americans were killed when the Twin Towers
collapsed, and yet the president and the vice president of the United States
have done everything they can to obstruct a open and honest investigation
of the causes of that traumatic event. And when a leak from his own administration
leads to the exposure of a CIA operative concerned with weapons of mass
destruction, the President tells us "we may never know."
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- This is a corrupt administration.
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- One of the oddest events since the election is that Wellstone's
successor in the U.S. Senate, Norm Coleman, has been placed in charge of
the Senate Investigations Committee.
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- That is an extraordinarily sensitive responsibility to
be placed upon a freshman senator with no previous experience. My guess
would be that it has never happened before. But the reasoning behind it
may not be that difficult to fathom: Would anyone be less inclined to pursue
the Wellstone death?
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- One man's opinion: The evidence presented here and elaborated
elsewhere in detail establishes a prima facie case that this death was
no accident, that the motives were political and begs the question: Was
the White House involved?
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- An investigation by the St. Louis County prosecutor would
be most welcome.
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- In the chorus of memories for a man who made a difference,
let us bear in mind that truth is our only defense against an onslaught
of lies that have dominated a media that appears too weak or too complicit
to resist.
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- - Jim Fetzer, a professor in the philosophy department
at University of Minnesota Duluth, is the editor of three books on the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy: "Assassination Science:
Experts Speak Out on the Death of JFK" (October 1997); "Murder
in Dealey Plaza: What We Know Now that We Didn't Know Then" (August
2000); "The Great Zapruder Film Hoax: Deceit and Deception in the
Death of JFK" (September 2003).
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