WikiLeaks says journalist Michael Hastings, 33, killed in a fiery crash early Tuesday morning after his Mercedes plowed into a tree near the corners of Melrose and Highland Avenues, had contacted the organization hours earlier to say he was the subject of an FBI investigation.
The tweet, issued Wednesday to WikiLeaks' 1.9 million followers, reads, "Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died, saying that the FBI was investigating him."
Here's the tweet:
Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died, saying that the FBI was investigating him.Look I don't want to turn into Alex Jones here, but this thing really stinks and I cannot be the only person smelling it.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 19, 2013
But then another part of me thinks that if you were going to murder a high profile journalist, WHY would you do it in such a suspicious manner? But then again the guy had no lack of enemies, both within the government and out, who would have liked to see him dead.
I don't know, I'm just saying that I am having some difficulty digesting this as an accident.
Maybe I'm just paranoid.
You're only paranoid if it is not true.....given the history of this country,especially of late,not a completely unfounded suspicion.....
ReplyDeleteWasn't he loathed by some other journalists? He was not so popular with his peers for McChrystal. His true love died in Iraq. On the rebound he marries Elise Jordan, May 21, 2011. Check out her credentials.
ReplyDeleteI would like to know his day and evening and what he was doing before this crash. Just the facts.
that was exactly my first reaction too - dead men tell no tales.
ReplyDeleteI commented at another site:
DeleteJeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald, take note.
Be sure to check out his fiancée Andrea Parhamovich, I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story. He sure packed a lot into his brief 33 years of life.
ReplyDeleteIt was no accident I'm sure. I've been doing a lot of reading lately and certain people in the government and the intelligence agencies have certainly had a number of people eliminated in the past. I won't even start naming names and it isn't being like Alex Jones, they've been doing it since these agencies started and certain evil people have taken full advantage of the secrecy and the cover ups. It is a sad world we live in.
ReplyDeleteWell when are they going to get around to Sarah and todd and all of 'em any of 'em?
DeleteIs this country completely controlled by Corps? And REPUBS?
The level if discource here has always been high. The last this cite needs is some nut-bagger theories.
DeleteThe right-wingers are already says that President Obama killed this guy.
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
ReplyDeleteHow about letting the experts and forensics do their job before anyone jumps the gun on this. May have just been drunk. There's enough paranoia without adding any more. If this had been John Doe, it would have been a 30 second news story and that would have been the end of it. Never heard of him before this story.
I'd like more facts. 4:30am is not a usual hour to be out and about. Documentation verifying his message to the Wikileaks attorney should be provided before believing that story.
ReplyDeleteYes, indeed.
DeleteHis Mercede engine flew 30 ft?
DeleteHezbelloh found him? I need to look up "hezbelloh" but in Los Angeles? They were the first responders? I see the FBI has already denied they were following him? Hmmm just like the Alaskan FBI denied investigating palin?
Since Anchorage FBI is known to be corrupt I will believe that. Otherwise...something stinks here.
A BRAND new Mercedes? That just "Crashed" in a Palm tree? Is THIS why no one will touch anything Palin?
I don't think I'm going to go full paranoia just yet. He may also have been upset about something or distracted which led to the crash.
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to know what his wife has to say about it. I take it she is grieving now but she will want the truth?
DeleteNew York Magazine columnist Frank Rich on Palin's return to Fox News:
ReplyDeleteMama Grizzly herself returned to her former employer Fox News this week after a mere five months apart. Are you surprised that Palin and Ailes got back together so fast? And who needs whom more?
Fox News still triumphs easily over MSNBC and CNN in the ratings, but its party is out of power, and when was the last time you heard its prime-time stars Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly make any news or even any noise? Ailes needs a freak show to get people excited about walking into his tent, and no one does that better than Palin. As for Palin, what else does she have to do? Celebrity and television airtime are her oxygen, far more than her political or ideological pursuits, and having exhausted her careers in both reality television and electoral politics, it was either Fox News or a Broadway stint in Chicago singing “We Both Reached for the Gun.”
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/06/frank-rich-immigration-reform-in-a-death-spiral.html
"if you were going to murder a high profile journalist, WHY would you do it in such a suspicious manner?"
ReplyDelete--- to show the Jeremy Scahills, Matt Taibbis, Philip Weisses, Glenn Greenwalds, Marcy Wheelers, Abby Martins, Kevin, Gostzolas, Alyona Minkovskys, Justin Raimondos, Dahr jamails, Jenn Robinsons, Jessalyn Radicks, and other investigative journalists-and/or bloggers that something like this too can happen to you, and the MSM will just turn the other way and continue to spin things - exactly as they are told.
WTF Gryphen? I thought Munger was not welcome here, did you guys kiss and make up and now we have to listen to his paranoia and anti obama screeds. Well that is just FUCKED.
DeleteOh for christ sakes! This is just absurd. I think you'd pee your pants with happiness if the secret assassins targeted you for writing your silly blog, Philip. BTW, what brings you to IM? I thought you were feuding with Gryph?
DeleteBullshit craziness.
DeleteThere is no doubt in my mind that Hastings' death was not an accident. If some dumb schmuck rear ends you at a traffic light because he's too busy texting his girlfriend to notice the red light, THAT is an accident.
ReplyDeleteWhen you are a well-known investigative reporter who dies in a one-car fiery car crash that... that is NOT an accident.
4:00 AM? DUI? If he was drunk, it was an accident caused by his drunk driving.
DeleteYour engine does not get blown 50feet away by a simple tree-wrapping accident...
DeleteThere are those who beg to differ -
Delete"Hard enough crash and they sure do. I have posted on here previously about the big-rig annihilating a pickup right in front of me on the interstate – the engine from the pickup went about 100 yards down the road. Compared to what I have seen of older cars hitting trees, the Mercedes held up remarkably well...But really, sideways into a tree and all bets are off.
Motor mounts in modern cars are designed to shear off. Typically, in a front end collision the motor will go UNDER the passenger cabin, but in a sideways crash like this, right out of the car and down the road is the result."
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2013/06/famed-non-automotive-journalist-michael-hastings-turns-a-c250-into-a-bomb/
"Anonymous1:26 PM
DeleteYour engine does not get blown 50feet away by a simple tree-wrapping accident...
This was a BRAND new Mercedes and a 40 ft truck didn't hit it on the interstate.
It hit a palm tree.
before it blew up? Or after?
??????
I don't have a problem digesting this as an accident.
ReplyDeleteHe had a lot on his mind and may have been distracted by any number of things.
I hardly think this was murder disguised as an accident.
Don't go looking for zebras when the horse is right there. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Pretty big explosion, though.
DeleteAmmo exploding in the clip above...
DeleteI don't think any law enforcement agency would endanger innocent people by interfering with a vehicle. He sped through a red light and was going at a high rate of speed.
ReplyDeleteeclecticsandra11:18 AM
DeleteI don't think any law enforcement agency would endanger innocent people by interfering with a vehicle.
*****
Its called "Collateral damage" and happens all the time!!!
Yes, fishy. But I'm wondering how anyone could have possibly orchestrated a crash like that. It happened around 4am, on major surface streets in Hollywood. Even at 4am I doubt the streets were totally empty. Not in Hollywood.
ReplyDeleteWas another car on his tail at that hour? If brake lines were cut couldn't he have engineered a less violent stop? Did somebody slip him drugs? Every scenario I can imagine would leave a trail of some sort, one would think.
There was a witness -
Delete"A witness described the accident to KTLA News: “I was just coming northbound on Highland and I seen a car, like, going really fast and all of a sudden I seen it jackknife,” Luis Cortez said. “I just seen parts fly everywhere, and I slammed on my brakes and stopped and tried to call 911."
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-michael-hastings-dies-car-crash-20130618,0,7611310.story
Unless he was a plant too ;) "When you talk to the media, say "seen" instead of "saw". It'll make you sound authentic."
Come on. Without more facts, this is not worthy.
Some people have been blaming Hastings for reporting about McChrystal's bad mouthing the president. That would make it McChrystal's fault, not Hastings for reporting something that uniformed soldiers are not supposed to do, namely publicly criticize their Commander in Chief. I hope that it was only a tragic accident. It would be scary if that was the treatment that a reporter got for telling the truth.
ReplyDeleteIf he had committed suicide, I'd be much more suspicious. If the coroner ruled it to be a self-inflicted suicide after he was found with two gunshots to the head (yes, two), I'd be even more suspicious. And if he had been reporting on the CIA trafficking in drugs at the same time of his death, then I'd think there was strong evidence of a conspiracy. See, all of this actually happened with Gary Webb, A Pulitzer-winning journalist who wrote a series of articles titled "Dark Alliance. He was ostracized and considered toxic by other media Fter he investigated links between Nicaraguan smugglers and CIA.
DeleteSo yes, sometimes there are reasons to think conspiracy is involved. But we know no facts about this to begging to suspect that... yet. There are too many other more efficient ways to neutralize an enemy than a perfectly planned car crash. But I will definitely be keeping my ear to the ground, because I know that his peers that Philip Munger mentioned above will do their due diligence in checking it out.
But don't cry "Wolf" until there's something more solid to go on. And then when there is, don't stop screaming until something is done. It's a crime that most people don't know every goddam detail in the series of incidents about Gary Webb. He was a real journalist, and a true hero.
I love it how the same people wer'e swallowing the Greewald's story hook line and sinker,
Deletebut this one passes the "sniff test"?
Bullshit.
Smells worse than a skunk.
I'm waiting to hear what they say. Perhaps his own paranoia caused him to be reckless? We'll see, but the conspiracy theories have started already most likely.
ReplyDeleteBullshit. You're starting to sound like a Republican.
ReplyDeleteI think a lot of people need to calm down. With some, not even forensic evidence will be enough. Personally I never heard of the guy; I'm sorry he died but I have no reason to think that the government did it. And neither does anyone else.
ReplyDeleteAs I’ve said before, I take the cafeteria approach. Most conspiracy theories are silly, but a few leave me very uneasy, and this is one; Silkwood, Princess Diana, all very suspicious. This isn’t amateur hour; these are the guys you read about in thrillers.
ReplyDeleteIs President Obama behind this? Oh, I doubt it, but he won’t do anything either.
It's always a car crash or small plane crash. Easy for Them to make it look like an accident. Modern cars can be "hacked" especially with the tools the FBI/CIA has access to. Remember the problem with Toyotas and unintended acceleration?
ReplyDeleteSo no you're not being paranoid. That was my first thought when I heard this on Maddow.
4:30 am one-car accident...yeah, I'd like to see some forensics and know what he was doing out in LA at that time. It's not like he had to beat the rush hour traffic into his office.
ReplyDeleteHis entire day, night and anyone he was in contact with would be vital to learn where his head was prior to this crash. Who gets into care and starts speeding at 4:30 am?
DeleteCars don't just blow up when they hit something like in the movies.
ReplyDeleteThey surely can.
DeleteThat was my thought, too. An accident is believable, so is the possiblity of being DUI, but explosions like that do not just happen. That is the part I find hard to buy.
DeleteThis isn't the first Mercedes that has been in an accident and if they were given to exploding into huge balls of fire on impact I'm sure we would have heard of it before now.
Especially not new Mercedes's! Their engines Dow not blow something like 50 feet away. Not normally.
Deleteare you an expert on cars and/or accidents? I've seen some horrendous car crashes with bits and pieces flung hundreds of feet. Of course they was just ordinary people who died. No one was talking about how just cars don't blow up. They do.
Delete@1:59
DeleteDid the crashes you saw result in a fireball engulfing the car? Were they accompanied by a noise so loud that it "sounded like a bomb went off"? Did it shake the house and windows? Did the car just "blow up" like you insist they do? Did you need an expert to tell you that you had just witnessed a car crash? Are you an expert?
Go to news.google.com and search for "firery crash." I just did:
Deletehttp://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/One-dies-in-crash-in-southwest-Houston-4611652.php
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-06-19/news/os-fatal-crash-turnpike-20130619_1_fiery-crash-ford-van-beachline
Etc. I live in the LA area, what might be the firery car crash capital of the world. Sadly, these accidents just aren't that unusual. Cars don't "just explode," but if they hit a stationary object at high speed, bad things happen. I once heard first-hand reports of a horrific broadside collision in my home town: that car that was hit didn't explode, but people who heard it maybe 1/2 mile away said they thought a bomb went off.
So, yeah, can we hear more about what Hastings was doing in Hollywood prior to 4a, and the accident itself, before we get out the tinfoil hats?
Leave the shark jumping for the idiot party Gryph.
ReplyDeleteHow often do new Mercedes.....blow up?.....engine catapulted out of the car?.....hit a tree?
ReplyDeleteJust/saying. Seems a little far fetched right from the start.
His last article was entitled: Why Democrats Love To Spy On Americans
ReplyDeletehttp://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings/why-democrats-love-to-spy-on-americans
Certainly makes you go hmmmm. However, people do crash their cars and die. Was he known to drink excessively? Was he known to speed or drive recklessly? We just don't know enough. Hearing the part about the engine makes me think that he was going at a high rate of speed. The sudden impact could certainly send the engine flying. I've been told that the engine bolts are made to break in a significant force impact, so the engine submarines under the car instead of into your lap.
ReplyDeleteNo paranoia, no shark jumping, yes let's wait to see what shakes out, incl forensics. But I'm curious about why such a big explosion, what story he might have been working on now, was he really being investigated by the FBI, and what they find at his home (any evidence he felt threatened). These are just v ordinary, reasonable qu anyone would ask.
ReplyDeleteHis wife would have many answers.
DeletePause and honor the man's memory -
ReplyDeleteRuling out a priori the possibility of foul play would be as logically fallacious as asserting its presence. But that’s why — as Hastings’ and my mutual friend Ali Gharib told me today — what we really need in a case like this is a Mike Hastings. The kind of reporter who would not jump wildly to conclusions, but who would follow up the incident by asking the right people the right questions, including difficult questions. Hastings would not speculate; he would apply parsimony and skepticism and — above all — ground any public claims in documentation and evidence. Indeed, as Gharib quipped, even when reviewing (scathingly) the film “Zero Dark Thirty,” Hastings cited sources and documents.
http://www.salon.com/2013/06/20/hastings_death_what_we_do_and_dont_know/
Great Link. Thanks for sharing it.
DeleteWell, I'd put money on Chris kyles death not being an accident but a thought-out plan, but I'm not God therefore do not add speculationg to the huge fire of internet bs.
ReplyDeleteI think it's safe to assume the throne killed Diana because she was a disgrace to it. That stuff has happened throughout history.
ReplyDeleteSo has mysterious deaths of highprofile people. Look at the gay men from Obamas church who died around the same time, at the end of 2007.
I hate conspiracy theorists. But the worlds a weird place. The earth has no healthy countries econ speaking and people love war.
We are fucked
Oooh, lookie what you invited in Gryph.
DeleteOh, and Orly Tait agrees with you.
Congrats.
Anonymous 1:37
DeleteI almost wept at this post. Its like a bunch of lunatics with pointed poison sticks being allowed to wander around a garden party.
Oh well, Orly Taitz says it was a bomb and how could Orly Esq. be wrong?
ReplyDeleteAilsa Esq.
I want to know where Patriots owner Robert Kraft's Super Bowl ring was, at the time in question.
ReplyDeleteGryphen, you're really starting to lose it. First with your overreaction to the NSA story, and now this.
ReplyDeleteAre you so bored in Alaska that you have to revert to wild imaginings in the heat. Yes, that's it, you're having a heat stroke and hallucinating. Must be that, because what ELSE would account for you repeating this same behavior/reaction for something that was MASSIVELY premature like you did with Snowden and ooga, booga, spy stuff.
There are no facts, forensic evidence, analysis, and yet you jump on the right wing's bandwagon based on a couple of videos and early 'news' articles? Didn't you learn your lesson the last time?
It's scary when you're starting to sound like Sarah Palin and all her made up fears and accusations. Pretty soon you will start doing the 'It's Obama's fault' garbage, if you keep heading down this over-reactive, paranoid and unTHINKING path.
I think you've also blurred the line between the movies/tv you watch and reality. Reel it back in! We need you for TRUTH, not urban legends.
oh good god, Jesse, now are you gonna say that a dead James Gandolfino was a mafia hit job? tin hats are all the rage, if you live in the right wing universe. i'm shocked at this level of paranoia coming from you. i gave you way more credit than that, especially when you've always been so committed to truth. what happened to you lately? why are you jumping to such enormous conclusions without a shred of evidence? that's what fox does all day long, but you?
ReplyDeleteWell, 'it sounded like a bomb went off, my house was shaking', and the fact that the engine got blown something like 50 ft away DOES point to something that was not 'normal' or 'routine' in an accident... Just WHO is behind the attack (that's what *I* would call this...), is up for discussion, though.
ReplyDeleteHoping, the police will do their job correctly and check/test for explosives...
Probably the engine flying off and hitting the pavement was what sounded like a bomb. I once observed a dump truck delivering firewood onto a driveway. Many neighbors' heads popped out of the doors because they thought it was an earthquake.
Delete"...DOES point to something that was" related to a very high speed car wreck. So, ok, conspiracy theories and all that, the first question to ask would be "who benefitted most from this accident"? Without a really good answer to that question, all there is here is a car wreck at very high speed.
DeleteWell isn't this just lovely. We now have the Obama killed all the gay men in his church idiots. The idiots that think Obama is having the FBI kill reporters---who actually outed an idiot general the President was happy to let go of. The
ReplyDeleteOMG maybe the GOP is right idiots. The oh my----the President "probably"
didn't do it---but won't do anything about it idiots.
Talking about calling all the assholes out . . . . Amazing, we are talking about
Alex Jones shit now.
Yep,
DeleteThe Obama killed the gays one was the last straw for me.
I asked Gryph if he saw what he'd invited in.
Jeebus.
AnnetteK
Yep, Angela, you hit the ol' nail on the head. Isn't it just so ironic that we've come so far in terms of technology, specifically forensics, that we are able to figure out the most obscure and minute things at an accident or crime scene, and yet no one seems to be willing to wait for that evidence, that analysis, but instead LEAP to conclusions that are more in line with a script than commonplace.
DeleteI think you're paranoid. He was a young man and he was speeding. He lost control and was killed. This shit happens every. single. day. to ORDINARY young men. It's certainly not unusual for a young man to be out late at night and wrap his car around a tree and die. It's happened every since the automobile was invented. Anyone can find a conspiracy in anything. I truly do not think one is here.
ReplyDeleteIt could have been anything.
DeleteHe took his eyes off the road to look at his GPS or adjust the radio or just anything.
He could have hit a slight anything on the road momentarily and then lost control.
And if a car going at high speeds hits a stationary object just right, couldn't the gas tank cause a big fiery explotion?
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
As soon as I heard the bews i knew he was murdered. Im just surprised they didnt make it look like he was "suicided". His car was fucked with so it accelerated and he could not steer it/control it. I guarantee it.
ReplyDeleteWhy was he driving at 4:30 am? Oh! I know! The gub'mint implanted a remote control "munches" chip in his brain that, when activated, gave him an intense craving for Taco Bell!
DeleteWell, I think it's interesting that he's a journalist driving a new Mercedes. Journalists don't make THAT, even ones who work for Rolling Stone. So...when he said he was being investigated by the FBI maybe it was because he was doing something wrong, not because he was the target of some kind of massive coverup operation. Stop watching Bourne movies!
ReplyDeleteMichael Hastings' Body Identified; LAPD Says No Signs Of Foul Play
ReplyDeleteThe Los Angeles coroner's office said Thursday that it has formally identified the late journalist Michael Hastings as the victim in a fiery car crash that took place on Tuesday.
It had been widely presumed that the body that had been found in the fatal accident in the city's Hancock Park district was that of Hastings, who died at 33. Though reports said that the body had been burned beyond recognition, the Associated Press said that the coroner had matched his fingerprints to prints that the FBI had on file.
Since Hastings' tragic death, a variety of conspiracy theories have emerged, suggesting that his uncompromising reporting and clashes with powerful government figures had made him a target. However, the Los Angeles Police Department told the Los Angeles Times on Thursday that there did not appear to be any signs of foul play in the accident. The Times said that officials were trying to figure out whether there had been a mechanical failure in the car.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/michael-hastings-body-no-foul-play_n_3474265.html
Here Come the Michael Hastings Death Conspiracy Theories
ReplyDeletehttp://gawker.com/here-come-the-michael-hastings-death-conspiracy-theorie-514384339
Once the engine separates from its mounts, you're looking at a broken fuel line. This turns your safe German luxury car into a potential napalm bomb. If he hit the tree in an off-axis angle at a high enough rate of speed, the G-forces would send the engine right through the grill and leave behind an explosive device just waiting for an ignition source.
You know those NHTSA videos of car crashes? They are done with no fuel in the vehicles.
I was in a DUI crash where I flipped my car. I noticed a small flame coming from under the hood. I got out as fast as I could. Within two minutes that car was completely engulfed. Within ten minutes nothing was left but a smoking frame.
ReplyDeleteIf this guy was drunk and didn't get out in time he would have burned alive. That will show in an autopsy. A car to go from a minor crash to fully engulfed in flames is not uncommon. But that's the beauty of conspiracy theories. Make the common a sinister government plot.
My first thought was that it was some retribution hit from McChrystal or some associated SF types. Then I realized I read way too many spy novels, and have no idea what actually happened
ReplyDeleteBut they may also have a hard time reconciling it with Hastings' Buzzfeed postmortem on l'affaire generale last November, titled "The Sins of General David Petraeus":
ReplyDelete'More so than any other leading military figure, Petraeus’ entire philosophy has been based on hiding the truth, on deception, on building a false image...it’s not what actually happens that matters — it’s what you can convince the public it thinks happened....'
Most of the stories written about him fall under what we hacks in the media like to call "a blow job."
After detailing the general's professional sins—taking false credit for the pacification of Iraq, glossing over ethnic cleansing there, overselling the prospect of success in Afghanistan—Hastings asks:
'How did Petraeus get away with all this for so long? Well, his first affair — and one that matters so much more than the fact that he was sleeping with a female or two — was with the media.'
http://gawker.com/petraeus-is-making-a-totally-omg-comeback-says-buzzfe-484264220
It makes no sense that he would be killed in such a manner, we know the car was not stationary, we know it was speeding down the street, if they had the means to make it crash at 100mph why have it blow up? At that speed you are dead no matter what, adding an explosion would just bring unwanted attention...
ReplyDeleteAlso as a person who has been around enough car explosions (IED and carbombs) they look nothing like this and chemical/forensic investigations always find something.
If they were in the business of executing hits on troublesome American citizens within US borders, this guy would be way far down the list
ReplyDeleteThe US has to be the gold standard for conspiracy nuts.
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing photographs from an accident last fall on an older, curvy section of highway on Long Island. The young driver was going way too fast and spun out of control into the wide, treed median. The car hit a tree so hard that it completely split in half, ejecting everyone.
ReplyDeleteThe driver survived with injuries but four passengers were killed instantly.
Sometimes an accident is just an accident, tragic as it may be.
A New Hampshire state legislator who drew fire for claiming the Boston Marathon bombing was an inside job has resigned from office.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/stella-tremblay-resigns_n_3473583.html?ref=topbar
Russ Tice, Bush-Era Whistleblower, Claims NSA Ordered Wiretap Of Barack Obama In 2004
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/russ-tice-nsa-obama_n_3473538.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
Careful....sounding an awful lot like right-wingers when Breitbert died. People die...and out on the streets in wee early a.m. could be impaired. We're not all like Sarah - some of us believe in coincidences. Or, if not a coincidence, sometimes those who live hard and take mental and physical risks for their jobs, also do so in their lives (and, sadly, their deaths).
ReplyDeleteLittle rule of thumb? If someone prefaces a comment with "not to be racist" you can be sure they're going to say something racist.
ReplyDeleteIf you have to preface something by saying you don't want to sound crazy like Alex Jones, chances are you're going to say something crazy like Alex Jones.
I worked with a student a few years ago who thought he knew everything already, even though he was only in 5th grade. When he wanted to question something I was teaching him, he often started with, "No offense, but..."
DeleteI explained to him that, if he had to preface his question with those words, he WAS being offensive and he knew it. After a few reminders, he stopped doing it.
Gryphen - Please try to stay off the Crazy Train!
I guarantee he will end up here http://www.newseum.org/
ReplyDelete...new car,...sounded like a bomb going off...middle of the night...what could be more, um, convenient...
ReplyDeleteIn the James Gandolfini death the media is already asking and retracing what he did the day he died. His wife is mentioned and flying to Italy. What was Michael Hastings doing prior to his death? His wife is on her way to LA?
ReplyDeleteMy Sister used to live at the corner of Franklin & Highlands in LA that is just down the road from the crash site, This area is ripe with criminal activity and everbody has surveilence cameras, Do we have any IMers from LA ? They should do a door to door to see if anybody caught anything on film.
ReplyDeleteHere is a more likely scenario:
ReplyDeleteEASY TO MAKE HASTINGS CAR ACCELERATE AUTOMATICALLY TO KILL HIM IN “ACCIDENT”…
This post outlines a plausible scenario in which Michael Hastings might have been murdered by the government altering the software in his car and auto accelerating his vehicle to his death (corroborated by computer scientists, hackers and a DARPA Program Manager).
Reddit Link: http://redd.it/1grycy (when at reddit, please up vote there to help spread the word, otherwise this story will never reach the necessary people).
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My first thought when I heard he died in a car crash was, hmmm I would like to know about that crash. Now that I have more information it is a bit suspicious and we will never know if it was just a horrible accident or something else. Are we turning into Mexico now, killing off journalists? Some of us lived through the JFK, RLK, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X assassinations and know that yes there are conspiracies and yes there are evil people who will kill someone for retaliation and to send a message. We only have to look at our own history and the cover ups to keep us from finding out the truth.
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