2002 HST interview ...revealing ...

[NVMojo]

http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/09/144645.php

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Mick O’Regan: Could I take you back to September 11th. What I’d really like to know is your reactions. And I know you said you were writing a sports column for ESPN when the planes hit the towers, but could I get you to tell that story of when you found out about it and what you were doing and what your reaction was?

Hunter S. Thompson: I had in fact just finished a sports column for ESPN. Here it is: ‘It was just after dawn in Woody Creek, Colorado when the first plane hit the World Trade Center in New York City on Tuesday morning. And as usual I was writing about sports. But not for long. Football suddenly seemed irrelevant compared to the scenes of destruction and other devastation coming out of New York on TV.’

Mick O’Regan: You went on to say in that article, which I have in front of me, that ‘even ESPN was broadcasting war news. It was the worst disaster in the history of the United States.’ Do you think that the event completely transformed the way in which Americans see themselves and their own vulnerability?’

Hunter S. Thompson: No, the event by itself wouldn’t have done that. But it was the way the Administration was able to use that event. Even use it as a springboard for everything they wanted to do. And that might tell you something. I remember when I was writing that column you sort of wonder when something like that happens, Well who stands to benefit? Who had the opportunity and the motive? You just kind of look at these basic things, and I don’t know if I want to go into this on worldwide radio here, but –

Mick O’Regan: You may as well.

Hunter S. Thompson: All right. Well I saw that the US government was going to benefit, and the White House people, the republican administration to take the mind of the public off of the crashing economy. Now you want to keep in mind that every time a person named Bush gets into office, the nation goes into a drastic recession they call it.

Mick O’Regan: It seems a very long bow to me, but are you sort of suggesting that this worked in the favour of the Bush Administration?

Hunter S. Thompson: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. And I have spent enough time on the inside of, well in the White House and you know, campaigns and I’ve known enough people who do these things, think this way, to know that the public version of the news or whatever event, is never really what happened.


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[Nothing Without Hope]

1. This sort of thing is one reason why his suicide is suspicious to many

...and I am one of them. If they LIHOP or MIHOP on 9/11 -- and I am certain that it was one of these two alternatives -- what would they stop at?

Nothing.

And exposure of what really happened on 9/11 is the one scandal that would bring them down quickly. HST never backed down from the truth and told it like no one else. Truth is the enemy of the Cartel.

[NVMojo]

2. I am with you on the suspicious part. He was totally and openly

opposed to this lying administration!

[pretzel4gore]

3. yeah, and if Hunter really off himself

why not set bush up while he's at it? send out lil warning notes to buncha friends, with dates etc saying 'bushinc gonna kill lil ole me, you watch...they say i did it, but c'mon, if i want to od it would be on (sassafras extract of oil, or something)???maybe rum'n'butter'n'arsenic candies for all we know, but that never quite added up.

[Nothing Without Hope]

4. Yes, his family said they weren't surprised he would choose suicide...

...but they WERE suprised at the timing. He was in the middle of things and had not showed any sign of planning it soon. And I would have expected something more statement-making than the way that it happened. It doesn't make sense as a suicide, but it makes lots of sense as the blivet** cartel eliminating someone who was too good at getting at the truth and convincing others of it.

Would this man, who delighted with the outrageous and was so full of passion, have chosen the death that they say he did? I can't see it. But I can sure see him being "suicided," especially if the Cartel had some evidence that he might be coming out with more damaging information about them. How he would hate being murdered by them! It would be the ultimate in being suppressed.

[Pepperbelly]

5. he always said when it stopped being fun ...

he was out of here. I have been a fan of his forever and I was not surprised. Saddened but not surprised.