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clover Donating Member (445 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-29-04 01:28 AM
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wellstone asassination press conference?
does anyone know if the 2 professors who apparently have evidence that paul's death was a political asassination had their scheduled press conference in d.c. monday?
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clover Donating Member (445 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-29-04 01:30 AM
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1. related book
Target Wellstone
BY RUSS WELLEN
BOOKS | 9.7.2004

American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone
By Four Arrows and Jim Fetzer
Vox Pop, 199 pages, $14.00

So fierce is the competition in the crime fiction market today that only the cozy genre of mystery can still get away with a single murder victim. In padding the body count, however, authors lose sight of the first rule of a good crime novel: reanimate the corpse. In other words, the reader must get to know and care about the deceased.

When the plane carrying Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone to the funeral of a state lawmaker's father crashed, his wife, daughter, three staff members, and two pilots died as well. By writing American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone (on Sander Hicks's new Vox Pop imprint), Four Arrows and Jim Fetzer honor all the victims. But demonstrating that a crime--massacre actually--was committed requires showing how Wellstone's Senate career constituted a monument to humanitarianism that demanded to be toppled as sure as Saddam's statue in Firdos Square, Baghdad.

Unfortunately, sniping from the left that he failed to hew to the party line obscured Wellstone's achievements (documented in an appendix to the book). In fact, his comprehensive approach to progressive causes, from reforming American farm policy to opposing GATT and NAFTA, paralleled how the right leaves no stone unturned in its relentless quest to roll back any legislation that could conceivably be called enlightened.
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kokomo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-29-04 01:45 AM
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2. Only saw it mentioned once and slimed in WorldNetDaily.........
I don't expect this to get any legs, just like Stanley Hilton's charges over 9/11.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41073 At the bottom of the page, after several other slimey articles.

http://www.onlypunjab.com/fullstory1004-insight-Who+Killed+Senator+Paul+Wellstone-status-20-newsID-1474.html
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clover Donating Member (445 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-29-04 01:53 AM
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3. thank you VERY much! (nt)
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