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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 01:14 PM
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Sonny Bono 'assassinated' by hitmen
more: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23483093-12377,00.html

Sonny Bono 'assassinated' by hitmen

By staff writers | April 04, 2008
SONNY Bono, former husband and singing partner of superstar Cher, was clubbed to death by hitmen on the orders of drug and weapons dealers who feared he was going to expose them, a former FBI agent claims.

Ted Gunderson, now a private investigator, has told the US Globe tabloid that Bono, who served as mayor of Palm Springs for four years, did not die after hitting a tree on a Nevada ski slope in January 1998 as everyone believed.

"It's nonsense for anyone to now try to suggest that Bono died after crashing into a tree. There's zero evidence in this autopsy report... to show such an accident happened. Instead, there's powerful proof he was assassinated.

"This was an evil plot that was carried out to almost perfection by ruthless assassins," Mr Gunderson told the paper.

The former agent, who has been researching Bono's accident for the past decade, said top officials linked to an international drug and weapons ring feared the singer-turned-politician was about to expose their crimes - so they had him killed on the slopes.

Bono, an experienced skiier, was ambushed on the slopes by hired hitmen, who beat him to death and then staged a tree collision, Mr Gunderson said.

He called for authorities to dig up Bono's remains and open a homicide investigation.
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GodlessBiker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 01:17 PM
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1. How would Bono have known about their crime ring to expose it? No explanation given.
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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 01:24 PM
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4. this is the info
in article: Investigator Bob Fletcher had also confessed he sent evidence of a 10-year study that linked top US government officials to arms and weapons dealers to Bono less than a month before his death, the Globe reported.

"(Bono) was going to make it his No.1 priority... There's no doubt in my mind Sonny was murdered by someone who needed him silenced," Mr Fletcher told the paper.

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GodlessBiker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 01:44 PM
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7. Hmmm...I see. Well, the good news is that Palm Springs has a better mayor now.
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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 02:23 PM
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10. yes, well, I live in LA and PS is just where I go to bake at the pool
as for a mayor, whatever works for PS.
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GodlessBiker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 02:28 PM
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11. I live in NY and my favorite poolside destination is PS.
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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 03:03 PM
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14. yeah, it's pretty mellow
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KaptBunnyPants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 07:33 PM
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25. Why would a Republican have a problem with that?
I thought giving weapons to drug lords and murderous gangs was in the Republican platform.
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 01:20 PM
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2. Look at the shiny thing over there . . . nt
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TooBigaTent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 01:24 PM
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3. It wasn't me, babe. And they never did aggresively question that tree. Hmmmm?
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mac2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 01:34 PM
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5. Nor Mary who married her boy friend after Sunny's death.
Edited on Mon Apr-07-08 01:39 PM by mac2
Mary Bono took Sunny's job in Congress.

Any good skier does not run into a tree (funny it was like the Kennedy boy who hit a tree). Did she hire the killer skier to do the job like Kennedy? They happened not too far from each other.

She then divorced him and had an affair with a Congressman (who was married). They then married after he got a divorce. Ain't Republicans grand? They have such great family values.

I talked with a relative in Palm Spring who said, she had no idea all that had happened. They honor Mrs. Bono in Republican land. They keep it all hidden.

This article about Mary below sounds so clean and simple.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Bono_Mack
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Daveparts Donating Member (854 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 02:18 PM
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9. The Tree has an Alibi
It was playing golf with OJ at the time of the murder
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Lobster Martini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 01:40 PM
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6. Darn! There goes my theory that Sonny was killed by Phil Spector...
...I do kind of like the idea of a hit man disguised as a tree, though...
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 02:01 PM
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8. Pro hitmen don't club you to death--they kill quickly and surely
Edited on Mon Apr-07-08 02:05 PM by rocknation
and most important, inconspicuously.

They're not going to take a chance on being seen by another skier, or getting blood spattered on them.

:rofl:
rocknation
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 02:57 PM
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13. Exactly
I don't mean to laugh but come on

So these "hitmen" make their way up a ski slope (was it all in white snow outfits like James Bond?)
wait for Sonny....Sonny freakin' Bono
Club him to death. Actually beat him to death not slip him something to look like a hear attack or say just shoot him in the head :eyes:

then they leave said mountain with bloody, what bats??, bloody killing instruments (in the snow mind you) okay maybe they used a bag that you carry skis in...they walk down the mountain or blend back into the lodge area carrying a bag


and no one notices

uh huh

:rofl:

Hold it!!WHEN did this happen??

Ooh he "died" ;-) in 1998! And who was President of the Unite States of America in 1998???


Aha! there you have it! He was CLUBBED TO DEATH ON A SKI SLOPE







with the Clinton penis


PERFECT!
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mac2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 06:35 PM
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22. Why not?
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Hayduke Lives Donating Member (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 07:28 AM
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28. This theory has obvious holes
There is a law - I believe it was actually carved into Hammurabi's Code and codified in the Magna Carta for good measure - that underworld hitmen can not make parallel turns.

And the 4th Law of Thermodynamics proves that a 300 lb. italian man can not wield a 10 club on a 40 degree slope (given the low drag coefficient) unless he was wearing crampons or was sliding on his ass down the hill (slide-by clubbing?).

I'm calling shenanigans on this whole thing.

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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 07:52 AM
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30. You make a good point or two
if you don't knock it off I'm gonna tell on you

:bounce:

Welcome to DU :hi:
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 08:09 AM
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32. My question is, why doesn't the guy reveal the information now?
What's stopping him from revealing the names that Bono had a month before his death?
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natrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-09-08 11:31 AM
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36. heavenley is 4800 acres most of which is deep woods-very ez to follow and pick a place unseen
Edited on Wed Apr-09-08 11:33 AM by natrat
of course they want it to look like an accident-i do not laugh at all as you seem to blindly accept, agent mike is that you? and to edit this happened at the end of the day i believe when slopes are typically empty
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gimberly Donating Member (51 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 04:02 PM
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16. Blood? Where did it say he was bloody? I always figured it was a head injury that killed him
Surely, head injuries kill quickly and surely.  Interesting
hypothesis.
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mac2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 06:22 PM
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20. There was just another hit of a Kennedy on a ski slop
They got away with that why not try it again?
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 06:48 PM
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23. Kennedy was trying to ski while tossing a football around
At least, that was the official story...


rocknation
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natrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-09-08 11:36 AM
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37. threads like this reek of professionals jumping in to stifle the spread of uncomfortable ideas
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 02:51 PM
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12. Actually, I think it was a hittree, not hitmen.
Those trees can be vicious. ;-)
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 03:14 PM
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15. They started out with only minor offenses, throwing apples at you and such,
Edited on Mon Apr-07-08 03:14 PM by Uncle Joe
however when Dorothy escaped their evil clutches, their life of crime took a much more sinister turn. That's when they took up baseball bats as their weapon of choice, naturally ski slopes offered an excellent way of committing their nefarious deeds and making it all look like an accident.
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 04:39 PM
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17. Well, I hope they use
aluminum bats. A tree clubbing you with a wood bat is kinda like me clubbing someone with a leg.
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 04:46 PM
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18. Aye,
said the one legged pirate, but these trees are vicious.
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ConservativeDemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 05:58 PM
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19. YES. IT'S ALL A CONSPIRACY!
That tree was planted!

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community
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mac2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 06:31 PM
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21. And it had Republican roots?
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canis_lupus Donating Member (213 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 07:24 PM
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24. Hitmen? I don't think so.
My money's on Sonny being bumped off by music lovers.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-07-08 11:57 PM
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26. To protect "staff writers," editors of this expose were forced to delete references to the Ent Mafia
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Oldtimeralso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 12:20 AM
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27. According to the repukes
isn't it a tree that started all these evil things. If you don't believe me just ask Adam and Eve. That has to be the truth cause I red it in that teer good book.
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cartach Donating Member (361 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 11:57 PM
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35. Which party has adopted as a slogan -
EAT A BEAVER,SAVE A TREE ?
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 07:37 AM
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29. Ted Gunderson? Is he related to Marge and Ned?



Norm Gunderson: They announced it.
Marge Gunderson: They announced it?
Norm Gunderson: Yeah.
Marge Gunderson: So?
Norm Gunderson: Three-cent stamp.
Marge Gunderson: Your mallard?
Norm Gunderson: Yeah.
Marge Gunderson: Oh, that's terrific.
Norm Gunderson: It's just a three-cent stamp.
Marge Gunderson: It's terrific.
Norm Gunderson: Hautman's blue-winged teal got the 29-cent. People don't much use the three-cent.
Marge Gunderson: Oh, for Pete's sake. Of course they do. Whenever they raise the postage, people need the little stamps.
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AwakeAtLast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 10:24 PM
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33. OMG! I had the same thought!
:spray:

:rofl:

I love Fargo!


:hi:
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 08:05 AM
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31. Wouldn't the footprints in the snow reveal evidence of a struggle?
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cartach Donating Member (361 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 11:50 PM
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34. I heard he collided with a
skiing tree , and they never did figure out which skier had the right of way.
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