SUICIDE FUELS CONSPIRACY BUZZ

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WAS Hunter S. Thompson's mysterious death really a suicide?

There are some serious irregularities surrounding the demise of the gonzo author, who was found shot to death in the kitchen of his Woody Creek, Colo., ranch on Feb. 20, and local cops seemed to have done a lackluster job of investigating.

Police reports obtained by the Rocky Mountain News note that cops arriving on the scene heard shots being fired, that Thompson's son, Juan, was allowed to be alone with the body, and that there was something odd about the gun Thompson supposedly used to kill himself.

Before his death, Thompson seemed in good spirits and was not known to be depressed. And considering his long-winded style, the absence of a note seems strange — he'd typed only the single word "counselor."

There were no eyewitnesses to the shooting, only an "earwitness" — Thompson's wife, Anita, who was on the phone with him at the time and who later drank scotch with the corpse. Her account of the incident is inconsistent: She alternately has said that she heard a loud, muffled noise and that she heard nothing but clicking.

The behavior of Juan, who was in the house at the time of the shooting, also was unusual. Pitkin County Deputy Sheriff John Armstrong said that when investigators arrived on the scene they heard shots, but Juan assured them he had merely been firing off a salute to his dead dad. Investigator Joseph DiSalvo also let Juan enter the kitchen alone and drape a scarf over the body.

And in his report, Deputy Ron Ryan noted the semi-automatic Smith & Wesson 645 found next to Thompson's body was in an unusual condition. There was a spent shell casing, but although there were six bullets left in the gun's clip, there was no bullet in the firing chamber, as there should have been under normal circumstances.

DiSalvo said he did not check the gun, adding, "I think a bullet from the magazine should have cycled into the chamber" unless there was a "malfunction." A spent slug was found in the stove hood behind the body.

Conspiracy theorists make much of the fact that Thompson had been working on a far-fetched story about the World Trade Center attack at the time of his death.

As Canada's Globe and Mail reported, Thompson had "stumbled across what he felt was hard evidence showing the towers had been brought down not by the airplanes that flew into them but by explosive charges set off in their foundations."

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award-winning Canadian journalist.

Within the story, he says "Thompson was indeed working on such a story." And he said so again to Alex Jones this week.

I love Hunter; his writing has had more impact on my life than just about any other author. But the man was not exactly known for breaking big stories. And he's barely left Colorado in years.

I highly doubt that Hunter was on the verge of breaking anything besides another story about watching football with Jim Isray and Ed Bradley.

Go figure. :shrug:

Thompson suddenly became Bob Woodward.

ALEX JONES: We're talking to a renowned journalist and writer, Paul William Roberts. Wrote a story for The Globe & Mail up in Canada where he talked about Hunter S. Thompson before he died mysteriously a few weeks ago, saying he believed the government may have been involved in 9/11, and he was concerned. He lived basically in a little armored compound... now they're saying he committed suicide.

But Paul has also interviewed people like Saddam Hussein; has written on the subject -- just this whole global empire...

CALLER "Scott from Texas": I was just wondering if you guys might be able to clear up something I heard through the journalist Sherman Skolnick. He is reporting that another story or book, I don't remember exactly which, that Hunter S. Thompson was working on was about this gay prostitution ring in the White House and supposedly that was another touchy topic that he brought out, and the whole...

JONES: Had you heard that from Hunter?

PAUL WILLAM ROBERTS: Yeah, I had heard that quite a lot from Hunter. It goes back to Kissinger, I believe.

www.total411.info/2005/03/hunter-thompson-friend-confirms-was.html

... I think conspiracy theories are inevitable, sadly.

:cry:

Thompson allegedly had the gun in his mouth.
This could easily interfere with the slide, and prevent the gun from cycling properly.
Probably means nothing.

there was according to the article an ejected case, and the slide had apparently locked (cycled, whatever, sorry for my English) so it should have fed another round into the chambre if the magazine was still in. If that particular gun had been fired and the case had been ejected from it.

Anyway, little use in speculating based on evidence from a newspaper article.

Because a serious alcoholic and drug addict with chronic pain and a fascination with guns could never be suicidal.

Thompson talked for years about suicide; his health was not the best, he took himself out.

Thousands of people saw planes hit the towers IN PERSON, and millions saw the 2nd plane hit on TV. We've seen the collapse, and how they collpase. They collapse towards the middle and crumble down.

Kerry/Gephart campaign anyone?