Hunter S. Thompson Suicide Fuels Conspiracy Buzz

[lavenderdiva]

Admittedly, this is from Page Six of the New York Post, but it does highlight some 'irregularities' that perhaps, have not been noted elsewhere.

http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix.htm

snip:
Police reports obtained by the Rocky Mountain News note that cops arriving on the scene heard shots being fired, that Thompson's son, Juan, was allowed to be alone with the body, and that there was something odd about the gun Thompson supposedly used to kill himself.

snip:
The behavior of Juan, who was in the house at the time of the shooting, also was unusual. Pitkin County Deputy Sheriff John Armstrong said that when investigators arrived on the scene they heard shots, but Juan assured them he had merely been firing off a salute to his dead dad. Investigator Joseph DiSalvo also let Juan enter the kitchen alone and drape a scarf over the body.

And in his report, Deputy Ron Ryan noted the semi-automatic Smith & Wesson 645 found next to Thompson's body was in an unusual condition. There was a spent shell casing, but although there were six bullets left in the gun's clip, there was no bullet in the firing chamber, as there should have been under normal circumstances.

snip:
Conspiracy theorists make much of the fact that Thompson had been working on a far-fetched story about the World Trade Center attack at the time of his death.

As Canada's Globe and Mail reported, Thompson had "stumbled across what he felt was hard evidence showing the towers had been brought down not by the airplanes that flew into them but by explosive charges set off in their foundations."

[bpilgrim]

1. "explosive charges set off in their foundations"

we allready KNOW they 'pulled' WTC7

http://news.globalfreepress.com/movs/wtc7.swf
more...
http://shadowgov.info/video_wtc7.html


http://images.globalfreepress.com

peace

[Skink]

2. He didn't want to be a burden...

Now about building 7. Do some homework, they didn't have to "Pull it".

[bpilgrim]

4. oh

i'm sure he must have left an amazing good bye essay considering how he loved to put his perspective out there.

please share... it's a DU tradion :hi:

http://news.globalfreepress.com/movs/wtc-7_collapse.mpg

psst... pass the word ;->

peace

[lavenderdiva]

7. hey bpilgrim...

don't know if you had a chance to read the complete article I linked, but here is an interesting snippet that is particularly relevant to your post:

snip:
Before his death, Thompson seemed in good spirits and was not known to be depressed. And considering his long-winded style, the absence of a note seems strange — he'd typed only the single word "counselor."

[bpilgrim]

10. i remember reading that the day he was reported dead...

and i always found that strange... and that he'd be infront of his alter, his type recorder, and NOT leave word before checking out :crazy:

and now with the gannon thing :scared:

wether this is just coinky-dink or not we ALL know the rabbit hole exists.

glad to see folks digging.

thanks for pass'n the word :toast:

peace

[NVMojo]

3. Hunter Thompson friend confirms was on to White House callboy story

have you seen or heard this one yet?

Check out this short partial transcript below and this audio file from Thursday's Alex Jones show. The audio clip has material not in the transcript. Jones' sites may or may not plan to post more complete audio.

ALEX JONES: We're talking to a renowned journalist and writer, Paul William Roberts. Wrote a story for The Globe & Mail up in Canada where he talked about Hunter S. Thompson before he died mysteriously a few weeks ago, saying he believed the government may have been involved in 9/11, and he was concerned. He lived basically in a little armored compound... now they're saying he committed suicide.

But Paul has also interviewed people like Saddam Hussein; has written on the subject -- just this whole global empire...

CALLER "Scott from Texas": I was just wondering if you guys might be able to clear up something I heard through the journalist Sherman Skolnick. He is reporting that another story or book, I don't remember exactly which, that Hunter S. Thompson was working on was about this gay prostitution ring in the White House and supposedly that was another touchy topic that he brought out, and the whole...

JONES: Had you heard that from Hunter?

PAUL WILLAM ROBERTS: Yeah, I had heard that quite a lot from Hunter. It goes back to Kissinger, I believe.

JONES: Wow.

Now that's a big confirmation. Now for those who don't know, We have Washington Times articles from 1989, you know -- 'underage call boys in the White House', and so this is serious . .. Hunter was working on that?

ROBERTS: Yeah, in fact Lyndon LaRouche published some stuff about that. And although, you know, a lot of his material was not that trustworthy, in this particular case there were a lot of sources cited and there was no lawsuit. And where there's no lawsuit you can be almost guaranteed that it's true.

CALLER: And I'm wondering if that might not be a hotter issue otherwise, because you get into the Jeff Gannon case and the whole gay prostitution and that's a national security issue.

JONES: Well, Skolnick is saying that now, we're talking about some of the fake reporters, and we know that ... again I haven't confirmed that part of the story but i'd like 2 get some conf on that

CALLER: And also it's interesting too because it dovetails with Jeff Gannon possibly being the leak that leaked the story about Valerie Plame...

JONES: Well let me just add this. I mean, we have the New York Post: 'Top gay porn star services moguls at Bohemian Grove... I mean I have Parade magazine articles, Spy magazine articles from the 80s where, as I said they bus in the gay prostitutes like Beluga caviar for our "Christian conservative" leaders... And is that what Hunter S. Thompson was on to?


more...

http://www.total411.info/2005/03/hunter-thompson-friend-confirms-was.html

[lenidog]

5. You know maybe its me

but sometimes I just get the shits over everything being a conspiracy. Who knows maybe their is something fishy but it seems that when any person of any importance dies their is supposed to be some dark conspiracy behind it. I think we as a nation are becoming immune to it because EVERTHING is called a conspiracy. The problem with that is when a real ones comes along no one is going to give a damn because they think its the tinfoil brgade at it again. Don't get me wrong I am a cynical and suspicous person I do believe in some of these things but I would have to say that sometimes 99% of them are pure fantasy while 1% is possible or is happening.



PS Sorry about the rant.

[bpilgrim]

6. nah, it's the programming...

prescribed reaction :evilgrin:

peace

[Minstrel Boy]

8. A "conspiracy" is an aberration to the system.

If it appears virtually "everything" is a conspiracy, than we need to reappraise our understanding of what the system is.

[lenidog]

11. It seems that everything is these days

I remember reading in a book about some of the great conspiracies of all time both proven and unproven the authors memories of the night that Princess Diana died. They said that within a half an hour of her death being announced that night there was already talk on the net about conspiracy theories. This is before anyone knew anything besides the facts that she was in an auto accident and that she was dead. I mean having a suspicious and questioning mind isn't a bad thing but that is ridiculous.

[cosmicdot]

14. maybe if stuff didn't happen as often as it does ...

but, it seems like it does happen often ... not to mention the 'who'(s) it's happening to, too ...

or, is that thought a conspiracy theory, too? :D

[Liberal In Texas]

19. Then, maybe again, there are conspiracies.

Maybe a lot of them.

[babylonsister]

9. Sorry, but I think not. The man was tired, and he

solved his dilemma. From what I've read, his son was in the house, wife on the phone, and he was done. Case closed. He went the way he wanted. Again, Case closed.

[Baclava]

15. Agreed

I've read everything he's written...from the beginning...

His works are classic...

Roll em, boys

California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur . . . The Menace is loose again, the Hell's Angels, the hundred-carat headline, running fast and loud on the early morning freeway, low in the saddle, nobody smiles, jamming crazy through traffic and ninety miles an hour down the center stripe, missing by inches . . . like Genghis Khan on an iron horse, a monster steed with a fiery anus, flat out through the eye of a beer can and up your daughter's leg with no quarter asked and none given; show the squares some class, give em a whiff of those kicks they'll never know . . . Ah, these righteous dudes, they love to screw it on . . . Little Jesus, the Gimp, Chocolate George, Buzzard, Zorro, Hambone, Clean Cut, Tiny, Terry the Tramp, Frenchy, Mouldy Marvin, Mother Miles, Dirty Ed, Chuck the Duck, Fat Freddy, Filthy Phil, Charger Charley the Child Molester, Crazy Cross, Puff, Magoo, Animal and at least a hundred more . . . tense for the action, long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, armpits, chain whips, swastikas and stripped-down Harleys flashing chrome as traffic on 101 moves over, nervous, to let the formation pass like a burst of dirty thunder . . .

They call themselves Hell's Angels. They ride, rape and raid like marauding cavalry--and they boast that no police force can break up their criminal motorcycle fraternity.

[tuckessee]

16. "He went the way he wanted." ??????

Can you refer us to a source where Thompson states he wanted to die by suicide?

What was his "dilemma", as you put it? Financial woes? Terminal disease? Impending divorce? Unbearable shame brought upon by scandal? What dliemma did he "solve"?

Also, how does his wife and son being present in the home automatically make this an open and shut case of suicide?

It's not unheard of for a son to kill his father or a wife to kill her husband. In fact, it's quite possible for a son and wife to conspire together to kill the father/husband.

The son and wife being home doesn't rule out that a fourth party may have entered the building, either covertly or with HST's permission.

[Baclava]

12. Jesus Fucking Kee-rist

Let the man have his grave.

[lovuian]

13. The Buzz is there is also a Gannon connection to Thompson

that Thompson had connections to Gannon!!!

[Must_B_Free]

17. The glaring misdirection is very telling

[merh]

18. I cannot vouch for this site's credibility, but I thought it was

very interesting:

Now check out this February 25 Associated Press story about Thompson's death. Sounds a lot like a professional hit with a silencer:

"I was on the phone with him, he set the receiver down and he did it. I heard the clicking of the gun," Anita Thompson told the Aspen Daily News in Friday's editions.

She said her husband had asked her to come home from a health club so they could work on his weekly ESPN column...

Thompson said she heard a loud, muffled noise, but didn't know what had happened. "I was waiting for him to get back on the phone," she said.

(Her account to Rocky Mountain News reporter Jeff Kass is slightly different: "I did not hear any bang," she told Kass. She added that Thompson's son, who was in the house at the time, believed that a book had fallen when he heard the shot, according to Kass' report.)


http://www.libertythink.com/

Was his son really shooting the gun in the air out of respect for his father or was he firing it at a fleeing intruder? :shrug:

[Liberal In Texas]

20. Yep. I heard that a few days ago.

This story is going to unravel. As it is starting to now.

And it might point to Franklin. And 9-11....and who know's where else...

[Richard Steele]

21. I am willing to believe alot of the odd things...

...concerning HSTs family.

Standing around the corpse drinking Chivas? Sure!
I'm certain that's _NOT_ the "strangest" family gathering they ever had; this is HST we're talking about!

But one thing strikes me as obvious BULLSH*T.

THIS:
The son was in the next room, and claims that he mistook the shot for the sound of a book being dropped.
BULLSHIT!

I don't know how many of you have ever been witness to a .45 ACP being fired inside a dwelling, so let me tell ya: It's louder than human ears can register!

You don't 'hear' such a thing, you FEEL it.
It feels like someone PUNCHED you right in both eardrums. It HURTS!
Small items fall off of shelves!

Now maybe HST's mouth and the interior wall might have knocked off 10 decibles or so, but there is NO WAY IN HELL that anyone
(especially someone so familiar with handguns)
would EVER mistake such an event for a 'dropped book'!

Unless HSTs son was wacked out of his mind, he's LYING.

[merh]

22. Just imagine being on the phone with someone who puts the

phone down and then fires that .45 ACP. I wouldn't think that I would describe it as a muffled sound if I was on the other end.

[Richard Steele]

23. And more importantly:

You would be VERY certain if you heard SOMETHING, until the end of your days!
Would you tell one person you heard a muffled noise, then claim you heard nothing? I think not!

(honestly though, a shot might have sounded "muffled" over a telephone. Phones can't relay that kind of volume, especially on the lower frequencies.
You know the "police whistle" trick? It only works on TV these days. Try it and see)

[merh]

24. Police whistle trick? Do you mean blowing a whistle in to a

phone if I get an obscene caller? :shrug: I never tried that to know if it works and my friends that do call wouldn't appreciate it if it does work and I try it on them. Better save than sorry to deafen a friend.

I just hang up on obscene callers.