Hunter S. Thompson - RIP

[Arjuna]

Boo!
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. . . Part of me wants to know which gun he did it with. I mean, the Desert Eagle .50AE has plenty of style, but the problem with that is the exit would be too quick and clean. If your gonna blow your brains out through the roof of your mouth, a good old ankle - holstered, undercover cop, .38 snub loaded with filed down hollow - points is the way to go. Big exit wound, quick end to the burden of thinking, quite a mess to clean up.

. . . I'll be honest. My initial response to any suicide is "What a coward." If one of the quintessential reasons for existence is the cessation of suffering, one must have the courage to swallow the bitterness of existence and let it kill you, rather than abusing the divine gift of free will to end it on your own terms. He had a family; not just a wife, but a son. The comittment to thier happiness should neccessarily superecede the desire to terminate personal pain. I'm a proponent of euthanasia, but the primary difference is that euthanasia comes out of a collective descision from your loved ones, not out of selfish will.
     Yet, with a guy like Dr. Gonzo, its merely par for the course. You can only go to the edge a finite amount of times before a strong wind comes along and knocks you off the precipce into the abyss. Depite his final act of defiance, he still has an immortal seat in one of the places which he despised the most, the American iconoclass. Hunter, the American dream ISINT dead, it lived inside your spirit. Now that that spirit has been splattered on your kitchen walls, may it once again be ressurected in all those that dare live as you did.

You will be missed.

[winder]

A gun is so messy.
Why not a neater means?
OD or carbon monoxide.

[Arjuna]

True.  An OD would have been better for all parties involoved.

[senorsalvia]

While I for the most part, agree with Arjuna, in that Thompson somehow seems to have "cheated" by committing suicide; I have also found myself reexamining things.  Hunter had been a major gun freak for years.  Yep, he was definitely one that always lived according to his own rules...  Stories abound about all spinal pain he faced...  Maybe the good doctor Gonzo,  did in fact, do things up according to his own precepts....  If he wanted out because of pain, then I can see him considering the ways to achieve his end....   Hell, with his connections, he obviously could have gotten enough drugs to do the job....  But, then the public would have pissed and moaned about 'ole druggie Hunter....  Granted, his suicide affected his family, but true to Dr. Gonzo's rampant self absorption, I don't imagine he gave much of a shit about their feelings in the matter...  I can see him not wanting to do it by drugs, as a slap at the establishment.  The WOD  meanies don't get to use his demise for their own ends...I imagine him holding the gun in hand, smirking ruefully at his impending end, and thinking that "yeah, AmeriKKKan as John F****'N Wayne, death by gunshot.............  I'll really miss the dude     senorsal

[dendro]

here's another take:

"Sherman SkolnicK:Was Hunter Thompson Suicided?
    by CLOAKANDDAGGER.CA

Sherman Skolnick has addressed this issue Monday, 2/21, on Jeff Rense's show,www.rense.com, & Tuesday, 2/22, on his own Cloak‡ show, www.cloakanddagger.ca, as well.

Skolnick reports that Thompson was working on an expose of the homosexual pedophile underground which permeates the MSM, Washington, DC, & BOTH political parties, a la the Franklin Coverup scandal of the 80's & 90's.

The danger of the Jeff Gannon scandal becoming the next dot to connect the BusShes to Franklin is causing panic among the MSM & DC, according to Skolnick.

Skolnick claims that Gannon AKA Gluckert is really Johnny Gosch, who was kidnapped as a child in 1982 & pressed into a pedophile prostitution ring which was directly connected to Franklin. SS advises to google "Johnny Gosch" & be amazed at the results.

Hunter Thompson's "suicide" then might be an attempt by SOMEONE to delay the dot-connecting.

Male whore scandal hits White House.

Kingpin, Jeff Gannon, stayed upstairs with Bush. Reportedly, CBS White House boss John Roberts and Matt Drudge are implicated.

CBS official reportedly secret co-owner of male whore house tied to Bush has not paid taxes.
Escort Service used by U.S. House and Senate members and Federal Reserve Bank Board Directors.


ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED
http://www.cloakanddagger.ca/"

[TooStonedToType]

This video is rather disturbing.
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Franklin coverup video
Video "Conspiracy of Silence"

RealVideo: stream with RealPlayer
http://sf.indymedia.org/uploads/conspir ... nce56k.ram

or

http://sf.indymedia.org/uploads/conspir ... ence56k.rm
download RM file (33.3 megabytes)

or the same video in higher res format.
Windows media at 39.6 megabytes
http://sf.indymedia.org/uploads/conspir ... lence2.wmv

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A True Story About Sex, Child Abuse, Murder and Drugs, Covered up By Authorities

ââ,¬Å"Conspiracy of Silenceââ,¬

[X. Torris]

Whoa!  To anyone who's watched this video: who all is implicated in this slime?  (I'd watch the video but I have dial-up, dammit).