later than 1 p.m.
Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone was a serious man who cared profoundly
about his fellow citizens. He took courageous stands against an
administration that he viewed with profound suspicion, arguing
eloquently against tax cuts for the rich, the subversion of the
Constitution, and violating international accords. He would have led
the opposition to the war in Iraq if only he had had the chance.
Everyone knew it and he may have died because of it.
For nearly a year now, evidence has been accumulating about the event
that ended the life of this magnificent human being. Whatever caused
the crash was not the plane, the pilots or the weather. In spite of
what you may have heard, the plane was exceptional, the pilots
well-qualified and the weather posed no significant problems. Even
the National Transportation Safety Board's own simulations of the
plane, the pilots and the weather were unable to bring the plane down.
This means we have to consider other, less palatable, alternatives,
such as small bombs, gas canisters or electromagnetic pulse, radio
frequency or High Energy Radio Frequency weapons designed to
overwhelm electrical circuitry with an intense electromagnetic field.
An abrupt cessation of communication between the plane and the tower
took place at about 10:18 a.m., the same time an odd cell phone
phenomenon occurred with a driver in the immediate vicinity. This
suggests to me the most likely explanation is that one of our new
electromagnetic weapons was employed.
The politics of the situation were astonishing. The senator was
pulling away from the hand-picked candidate of the Bush machine. Its
opportunity to seize control of the U.S. Senate was slipping from its
grasp. Its vaunted "invincibility" was being challenged by an
outspoken critic of its most basic values. Targeted for elimination,
he was going to survive. Here's one man's opinion: Under such
conditions, the temptation to take him out may have been irresistible.
Among the striking indications that something was wrong with the NTSB
in its inquiry into the causes of the crash is that Carol Carmody,
a
former employee with the CIA, the head of the team, announced the day
after that the FBI had found no indications of terrorist involvement.
Yet it is the responsibility of the NTSB to ascertain the cause of
the crash, which has yet to be determined to this very day.
So how could the FBI possibly know?
The FBI's prompt arrival was peculiar. As Christopher Bollyn of
American Free Press reported (www.rumor millnews.net, Oct. 29, 2002),
"According to Rick Wahlberg, then St. Louis County sheriff, a team
of
FBI agents was quickly on the crash site about noon, less than an
hour after (assistant manager Gary) Ulman and the (fire) chief had
first located the site and found a way to access the wreck. This FBI
team had come from the distant Twin Cities in record time!"
When Bollyn "asked Ulman if he had notified the FBI about the
accident, Ulman said he had not spoken with the bureau at any time.
Asked how the FBI got to the site so quickly, Ulman said that he
assumed they had come from Duluth. AFP contacted the Duluth office
of
the FBI and was told that the team of 'recovery' agents had not come
from Duluth but had traveled from the FBI office in Minneapolis."
I calculate that this team would have had to have left the Twin
Cities at about the same time the Wellstone plane was taking off.
Gary Ulman confirmed to me that the FBI had been on the scene no
later than 1 p.m.
I have reviewed the log books maintained by the Sheriff's Department
at Eveleth and have discovered that they are grossly incomplete and
cannot confirm when the FBI showed up.
The FAA has told me that its records of private aircraft arriving in
Duluth that morning have been destroyed, even though they might
verify the FBI's early arrival.
And the NTSB has canceled sessions where it would ordinarily take
input from the public.
Michael Ruppert (fromthe
wilderness.com, Nov. 1, 2002) has reported, "The day after the crash
I received a message from a former CIA operative who has proven
extremely reliable in the past and who is personally familiar with
these kinds of assassinations. The message read, 'As I said earlier,
having played ball (and still playing in some respects) with this
current crop of reinvigorated old white men, these clowns are nobody
to screw around with. There will be a few more strategic accidents.
You can be certain of that.' "
If you think that's a stretch, consider: Hundreds of young Americans
have been put in harm's way by a war that was promoted on the basis
of lies about weapons of mass destruction, collaboration with Osama
bin Laden, and Sept. 11.
Some 3,000 Americans were killed when the Twin Towers collapsed, and
yet the president and the vice president of the United States have
done everything they can to obstruct a open and honest investigation
of the causes of that traumatic event. And when a leak from his own
administration leads to the exposure of a CIA operative concerned
with weapons of mass destruction, the President tells us "we may
never know."
This is a corrupt administration.
One of the oddest events since the election is that Wellstone's
successor in the U.S. Senate, Norm Coleman, has been placed in charge
of the Senate Investigations Committee.
That is an extraordinarily sensitive responsibility to be placed upon
a freshman senator with no previous experience. My guess would be
that it has never happened before. But the reasoning behind it may
not be that difficult to fathom: Would anyone be less inclined to
pursue the Wellstone death?
One man's opinion: The evidence presented here and elaborated
elsewhere in detail establishes a prima facie case that this death
was no accident, that the motives were political and begs the
question: Was the White House involved?
An investigation by the St. Louis County prosecutor would be most welcome.
In the chorus of memories for a man who made a difference, let us
bear in mind that truth is our only defense against an onslaught of
lies that have dominated a media that appears too weak or too
complicit to resist.
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JIM FETZER, a professor in the philosophy department at University
of
Minnesota Duluth, is the editor of three books on the assassination
of President John F. Kennedy: "Assassination Science: Experts Speak
Out on the Death of JFK" (October 1997); "Murder in Dealey Plaza:
What We Know Now that We Didn't Know Then" (August 2000); "The Great
Zapruder Film Hoax: Deceit and Deception in the Death of JFK"
(September 2003).
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