Mike Connell: Victim of Republican Foul Play?

[WhoIsNumberNone]

Run time: 04:22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFIWwjkSV4E   Posted on YouTube: December 21, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: December 21, 2008 By DU Member: WhoIsNumberNone Views on DU: 2615

 
Mike Connell- Republican IT guru directly implicated in the 2004 Ohio vote-rigging scandal, and now star witness in a federal lawsuit which could bring down Karl Rove- died when his small plane crashed just 3 miles short of its destination in Akron Ohio.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. how convenient for Rove

I wonder how they 'fixed' his plane?

[WhoIsNumberNone]

2. All you'd have to do...

would be slacken a bolt that holds down a control surface. It would work it's way loose during the flight, and presto! Problem solved.

[Ysabela]

3. Let this be a lesson to Republican flunkies...

To all the low level, Republican flunkies who get offered jobs like this guy did. When the powerful Elite come to you, and make you this great offer to do secretive work, don't let the allure of power and secrecy overcome your judgement. Although the Elite may need your technical skills to do their dirty work, it certainly does not mean you have become invaluable to them and have moved your social status up to that of Elite. The Elites consider you to still be Goyim, cattle meant to be used and then slaughtered.

By signing on with them, you make yourself the victim as you will one day become a liability rather than an asset, when you get to know too much about the Elite and what they've been up to. Take it from Michael Connell, just say no when they come asking you to do their dirty work.

[DUlover2909]

5. but, that makes the repukes sound like the mafia?

Hmm, who could have guessed?

[napi21]

4. Radio news said it was a Piper Saratoga. Not the greatest weather either.

http://www.aircraftbrowser.com/2000%20Piper%20Saratoga%20TC%20(N913TC).jpg

It's been snowing all day, and still is.

http://www.weatherforyou.com/weather/ohio/Stark+county.html

I like intrigue too, but small aircraft don't usually do too well in poor weather conditions.

I wouldn't be shocked if there was some hanky-panky involved here, but I suspect it most likely was mechanical failure, lack of fuel, or pilot error.

[snot]

6. Don't forget to go rate it up on YouTube.

[Career Prole]

10. I didn't. Many I just watch here on DU but there are some

I click right through to youtube to rate. This one definitely qualifies for the "side trip".

[SeattleGirl]

7. Wonder how many more people they're going to eliminate.

Mighty dangerous to turn your back on Bush/Rove/et al.

Scott McClellan better stay out of small planes.

So had anyone else who is now not on Bush's side.

[Stevepol]

8. My question: Why such a big explosion??

He was at the end of a long flight from Maryland and probably only had a little gasoline left and yet the explosion and fire demolished the plane and debris was scattered hither and yon.

Just asking. My thought is that normally a plane crashing this way would not explode in this way but would stay substantially intact. Of course I could be wrong.

It cd of coruse just be an accident, perhaps partly due to Connell's state of mind, which under the conditions was almost certainly pretty stressed out. The weather certainly could have played a role as well.

[localroger]

9. Vapor is more explosive than liquid

Empty gas tanks are more likely to explode than full ones; this is also true of cars. Liquid fuel tends to burn, not explode, but vapor mixes thoroughly with air and can burn all at once making an explosion. A nearly empty tank tends to be full of fuel vapor. OTOH I don't know what to make of the "line of fire" comment made by one of the witnesses.

[kickysnana]

11. Ping pong ball. Stops gas flow temporarily when pump is working.

Gas gauges work correctly.

[librechik]

12. Wiitness on the video" There was a long trail of fire leading up to the plane"

or thereabouts

suggests the plane was on fire while aloft?

onboard explosion would disintegrate the plane

Most likely the good ol reliable NTSB will keep everything undercover for their BushCo masters

:tinfoilhat:

[liberal N proud]

13. Dead men tell no tales

[avaistheone1]

14. Connell was clearly a man who knew too much

and could finger Rove and other powerful GOP players about the stolen Ohio election in 2000 and 2004, as well as the thousands and thousands of missing GOP emails.

I am not surprised at all at this most convenient of "accidents".

[Phred42]

15. This should be a wake up call to publically come forward NOW

before they get YOU too.

Bush Crime Family Insiders - dump what you know - publicly - and they will have a more difficult time "Wellstoning" you.


Betcha there will be more accidents, of key figures, at convenient times.

:shrug:

[judesedit]

16. Undoubtedly

I just hope Connell foresaw the likes of this happening and put everything in writing in a safety deposit box or with a trusted friend to be exposed immediately upon his death. Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft and their cohorts should all rot in jail, then hell. No matter how long it takes they will pay for their transgressions.

[Optimistic]

17. Rove/Cheney will become Dictators

There is no doubt that Rove and Cheney plan on overthrowing the USA and declare themselves Dictators For Life before Jan 20 2009

[WhoIsNumberNone]

19. And that would be just fine with many Repug voters...

...I mean, we'd be living in a dictatorship- But at least it wouldn't be a left wing dictatorship, right? After all the Nazis were LIBERALS, weren't they? Hence National SOCIALIST WORKERS Party, right? (In fact, the standard of living and relative earnings for German workers declined during the Nazi era, and the Nazis hated the communists as much as the jews, but never mind- After all, right thinking Americans don't concern themselves with "facts" that contradict ideology do they?)

[Night_Nurse]

18. Bush/Cheney are going to start eliminating...

everyone/anyone who "knows too much". Less than a month left to clean house, so to speak.

They are truly evil.