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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