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840high

(17,196 posts)
Sun May 8, 2016, 09:40 PM May 2016

Blogger Gary Welsh Dies In Apparent Suicide


Blogger Gary Welsh Dies In Apparent Suicide
5/8/2016, 5:04:50 PM · by SatinDoll · 187 replies
IBJ ^ | May 1, 2016 | Indiana Business Journal
The Indiana blogger, Gary Walsh, was found dead by apparent gunshot to the head in a stairwell outside his office in Indianapolis. Next to his body was a gun. Gary Walsh exposed a great many corrupt politicians in Indiana, who were shredding official documents. Too, he exposed the photo of Raphael Cruz, Sr., handing out leaflets while accompanying Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans, from 1963.
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Blogger Gary Welsh Dies In Apparent Suicide (Original Post) 840high May 2016 OP
... ChisolmTrailDem May 2016 #1
Because people always shoot themselves in the head in a stairwell. enlightenment May 2016 #2
My first thought ... stairwell? 840high May 2016 #6
And where do people typically shoot themselves? Act_of_Reparation May 2016 #21
Suicides? enlightenment May 2016 #23
Damn. I'm saving this one under ? . nt silvershadow May 2016 #3
Sounds like a hit job rockfordfile May 2016 #4
Let's just wait for the ballistic tests. Too early to tell what happened. craigmatic May 2016 #5
Yes, the ballistics tests will show Wednesdays May 2016 #13
IBJ link below salin May 2016 #7
Thank you. I'm not 840high May 2016 #8
I didn't read his blog too closely - it struck me as pretty right wing salin May 2016 #12
Interesting comments. Downwinder May 2016 #10
So he unearthed a photo of Cruz's father with Lee Harvey Oswald . . . brush May 2016 #9
Sounds like one of my former neighbors. HubertHeaver May 2016 #11
One bullet hole Richard D May 2016 #14
That sounds like a hit straight from the Godfather DVRacer May 2016 #15
JFK Assassination Again? billhicks76 May 2016 #16
George HW Bush told the FBI he was in Dallas that awful day. Octafish May 2016 #22
Amen billhicks76 May 2016 #25
It was you and me. Tommy_Carcetti May 2016 #28
I bet the coroner will find he committed suicide by shooting himself twice in the head JonLeibowitz May 2016 #17
and in the back of the head, too. n/t dixiegrrrrl May 2016 #18
Like the guy who backed into a knife 17 times.... Manifestor_of_Light May 2016 #26
Remember those bunch of bankers who died? dixiegrrrrl May 2016 #29
So he's a nutjob like Donald Trump NobodyHere May 2016 #19
Suspicious circumstances. Octafish May 2016 #20
sounds like the time joe scarborough killed that intern. remember that, joe? good times... just4lulzidk May 2016 #24
I've always wondered if that WhiteTara May 2016 #27
112263onHulu MinM May 2016 #30

enlightenment

(8,830 posts)
2. Because people always shoot themselves in the head in a stairwell.
Sun May 8, 2016, 09:43 PM
May 2016

I'm not big on conspiracy theories, but really? In a stairwell?

enlightenment

(8,830 posts)
23. Suicides?
Mon May 9, 2016, 11:37 AM
May 2016

Generally? In a private place - their home, their car, or similar. Alternately, very public - choosing a crowd to see the suicide to make their point (for example, the man who shot himself in the hotel buffet - Las Vegas - after losing a lot of money gambling).

I suppose a stairwell could be private - but in a public building, not really. I'm not saying the guy didn't shoot himself; that's for the coroner to decide. Just that a stairwell is an odd venue.

Wednesdays

(17,312 posts)
13. Yes, the ballistics tests will show
Sun May 8, 2016, 11:43 PM
May 2016

that the force of the bullet was great enough to knock him into a stairwell.

salin

(48,955 posts)
7. IBJ link below
Sun May 8, 2016, 10:20 PM
May 2016

I don't know Walsh, but am passingly familiar with his right wing blog Advance Indiana. The OP was startling enough for me to look for the ibj link.

http://www.ibj.com/articles/58378-blogger-gary-welsh-dies-in-apparent-suicide

 

840high

(17,196 posts)
8. Thank you. I'm not
Sun May 8, 2016, 10:44 PM
May 2016

too good with links. I always thought he criticised dems and repubs equally. Maybe I was wrong

salin

(48,955 posts)
12. I didn't read his blog too closely - it struck me as pretty right wing
Sun May 8, 2016, 10:59 PM
May 2016

but, reading the comments at the ibj - sounds more like he was very conspiracy theory oriented - which would probably go strike in both ways.

When I first encountered Advance Indiana, I was under the impression that he was aligned with Eric Miller who ran for Governor against Gov. O'Bannon in 2004. That might have colored my later periodic readings of his blog.

Am still reading the comments on the ibj article. Interesting.

All that aside, RIP and peace to those close to him who are grieving.

brush

(53,741 posts)
9. So he unearthed a photo of Cruz's father with Lee Harvey Oswald . . .
Sun May 8, 2016, 10:51 PM
May 2016

and soon ends up dead with an alleged self-inflicted gunshot to the head in a stairwell.

So that's where that charge from Trump about Cruz's father and the JFK assassination came from.

H-u-u-u-u-u-h?

Guess some questioning is in order for the Cruz family.

HubertHeaver

(2,520 posts)
11. Sounds like one of my former neighbors.
Sun May 8, 2016, 10:56 PM
May 2016

He was found in his kitchen with a .22 revolver in his hand and a .38 hole in his head.

 

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)
16. JFK Assassination Again?
Mon May 9, 2016, 12:12 AM
May 2016

Wow. Cruz's father and Lee Harvey Oswald? We all know Bush Sr was involved in 1963.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
22. George HW Bush told the FBI he was in Dallas that awful day.
Mon May 9, 2016, 09:00 AM
May 2016
Poppy Bush even warned the FBI about a threat to President Kennedy he heard about -- AFTER -- JFK assassinated.

In the hour of the death of President John F. Kennedy, Texas oilman George Herbert Walker Bush named a suspect to the FBI in a "confidential" phone call. He then added he was heading for Dallas. Skeptics need not take my word for it, that's what Poppy told the FBI:



Here's a transcript of the text:



TO: SAC, HOUSTON DATE: 11-22-63

FROM: SA GRAHAM W. KITCHEL

SUBJECT: UNKNOWN SUBJECT;
ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT
JOHN F. KENNEDY

At 1:45 p.m. Mr. GEORGE H. W. BUSH, President of the Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Company, Houston, Texas, residence 5525 Briar, Houston, telephonically furnished the following information to writer by long distance telephone call from Tyler, Texas.

BUSH stated that he wanted to be kept confidential but wanted to furnish hearsay that he recalled hearing in recent weeks, the day and source unknown. He stated that one JAMES PARROTT has been talking of killing the President when he comes to Houston.

BUSH stated that PARROTT is possibly a student at the University of Houston and is active in political matters in this area. He stated that he felt Mrs. FAWLEY, telephone number SU 2-5239, or ARLINE SMITH, telephone number JA 9-9194 of the Harris County Republican Party Headquarters would be able to furnish additional information regarding the identity of PARROTT.

BUSH stated that he was proceeding to Dallas, Texas, would remain in the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel and return to his residence on 11-23-63. His office telephone number is CA 2-0395.

# # #



Gee. Why was Poppy Bush in Dallas when JFK was assassinated?

Could it be, he was on official business? I suspect he was on Secret Government business. After all, his eldest son bragged during his Texas Air National Guard and Harvard grad school days that his daddy was CIA.

Here's an FBI document from the same week of the assassination in which FBI Director J Edgar Hoover briefed one "Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency." Some strange coincidence there, wot?



Here's a transcript of the above:



Date: November 29, 1963

To: Director
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Department of State

From: John Edgar Hoover, Director

Subject: ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
NOVEMBER 22, 1963

Our Miami, Florida, Office on November 23, 1963, advised that the Office of Coordinator of Cuban Affairs in Miami advised that the Department of State feels some misguided anti-Castro group might capitalize on the present situation and undertake an unauthorized raid against Cuba, believing that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy might herald a change in U. S. policy, which is not true.

Our sources and informants familiar with Cuban matters in the Miami area advise that the general feeling in the anti-Castro Cuban community is one of stunned disbelief and, even among those who did not entirely agree with the President's policy concerning Cuba, the feeling is that the President's death represents a great loss not only to the U. S. but to all of Latin America. These sources know of no plans for unauthorized action against Cuba.

An informant who has furnished reliable information in the past and who is close to a small pro-Castro group in Miami has advised that these individuals are afraid that the assassination of the President may result in strong repressive measures being taken against them and, although pro-Castro in their feelings, regret the assassination.

The substance of the foregoing information was orally furnished to Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency and Captain William Edwards of the Defense Intelligence Agency on November 23, 1963, by Mr. W. T. Forsyth of this Bureau.

# # #



I do remember that GHWB was head of the CIA when the Church Committee was looking into the CIA assassination programs. He made things all friendly-like and turned what had been a serious hunt for truth under previous DCI Colby into another dog-and-pony show that was big on show and light on facts.

Regarding Dallas: Now I don't know if Poppy was a trigger man, was only there to watch what happened or what just happened to be there. I do know Poppy Bush has never explained these memos. He's never even admitted where he was the day JFK was killed.

Seeing how he would go on to become President, as would his dim son, I believe it's vitally important that we learn the Truth.

Why? The United States and the world haven't been the same since November 22, 1963. And not a single major player in the nation's mass media have stepped up and demanded a real investigation. So, it's up to us, We the People.

What's more, Poppy Bush sheltered mass-murdering jet-bombing terrorists like Luis Posada Carriles.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
29. Remember those bunch of bankers who died?
Mon May 9, 2016, 04:36 PM
May 2016

Some very suspiciously.
Including the guy found in his garage, and it determined he had used a nail gun into his head about 8 times.

a banker type guy....had a nail gun......8 times.

Riiiight.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
20. Suspicious circumstances.
Mon May 9, 2016, 08:22 AM
May 2016

Never heard of him until the Rafael Cruz-LHO thing.

Here's the guy's blog (seems to have had his stuff together):

http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2016/04/ted-cruz-family-full-of-mysteries.html

It reminds me of the death of Steve Kangas, a "suicide" in a bathroom outside Richard Mellon Scaife's offices in Pittsburgh.

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/

Good people interested in telling the truth are a problem for those who got something to hide.

MinM

(2,650 posts)
30. 112263onHulu
Tue May 10, 2016, 03:11 PM
May 2016

One of the producers of the Hulu series 112263 laments not having this when producing the show...

Bridget Carpenter ?@BridgetCarpen12

Greatest regret-- not writing [font color=darkred]Ted Cruz’s Father[/font] into 11.22.63 #112263onHulu #regrets @StephenKing


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