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> > > Was Paul Wellstone Murdered?
> > >
> > > by Michael I. Niman, AlterNet
> > > October 28, 2002
> > >
> > > Paul Wellstone was the only progressive in the U.S.
> > > Senate. Mother Jones
> > > magazine once described him as, "The first 1960s
> > > radical elected to the U.S.
> > > senate." He was also the last. Since defeating
> > > incumbent Republican Rudy
> > > Boschowitz 12 years ago in a grassroots upset,
> > > Wellstone emerged as the
> > > strongest, most persistent, most articulate and most
> > > vocal Senate opponent
> > > of the Bush administration.
> > >
> > >
> > > In a senate that is one heartbeat away from
> > > Republican control, Wellstone
> > > was more than just another Democrat. He was often
> > > the lone voice standing
> > > firm against the status-quo policies of both the
> > > Democrats and the
> > > Republicans. As such, he earned the special ire of
> > > the Bush administration
> > > and the Republican Party, who made Wellstone's
> > > defeat that party's number
> > > one priority this year.
> > >
> > >
> > > Various White House figures made numerous recent
> > > campaign stops in Minnesota
> > > to stump for the ailing campaign of Wellstone's
> > > Republican opponent, Norm
> > > Coleman. Despite being outspent and outgunned,
> > > however, polls show that
> > > Wellstone's popularity surged after he voted to
> > > oppose the Senate resolution
> > > authorizing George Bush to wage war in Iraq. He was
> > > pulling ahead of Coleman
> > > and moving toward a victory that would both be an
> > > embarrassment to the Bush
> > > administration and to Democratic Quislings such as
> > > Hillary Clinton who voted
> > > to support "the president."
> > >
> > >
> > > Then he died.
> > >
> > >
> > > Wellstone now joins the ranks of other American
> > > politicians who died in
> > > small plane crashes. Another recent victim was
> > > Missouri's former Democratic
> > > governor, Mel Carnahan, who lost his life in 2000,
> > > three weeks before
> > > Election Day, during his Senatorial race against
> > > John Ashcroft. Carnahan
> > > went on to become the first dead man to win a
> > > Senatorial race, humiliating
> > > and defeating the unpopular Ashcroft posthumously.
> > > Ashcroft, despite his
> > > unpopularity, went on to be appointed Attorney
> > > General by George W. Bush.
> > > Investigators determined that Carnahan's plane went
> > > down due to "poor
> > > visibility."
> > >
> > >
> > > Carnahan was the second Missouri politician to die
> > > in a small plane crash.
> > > The first was Democratic Representative Jerry
> > > Litton, whose plane crashed
> > > the night he won the Democratic nomination for
> > > senate in 1976. His
> > > Republican opponent ultimately captured the seat
> > > from his successor in
> > > November.
> > >
> > >
> > > While an article in the New York Times on Saturday
> > > pointed out the danger
> > > politicians face due to their heavy air travel
> > > schedules, the death of a
> > > senator or member of Congress is still relatively
> > > rare, with only one other
> > > sitting U.S. Senator, liberal Republican John Heinz,
> > > dying in a plane crash
> > > since World War II. Heinz, who entered office as an
> > > outspoken opponent of
> > > the Vietnam War, later emerged as a strong proponent
> > > of health care, social
> > > services, public transportation and the environment.
> > > He also urged
> > > reconciliation with Cuba. He died when the landing
> > > gear on his small plane
> > > failed to function, and a helicopter dispatched to
> > > survey the problem
> > > crashed into his plane.
> > >
> > >
> > > One former senator, John Tower, also died in a small
> > > plane crash. Tower was
> > > best known as the chair of the Tower Commission,
> > > which investigated the
> > > Reagan/Bush era Iran/Contra scandal.
> > >
> > >
> > > Another member of a prominent government commission
> > > who died in a small
> > > plane crash was former Democratic representative and
> > > House Majority Leader
> > > Hale Boggs. Boggs was best known as one of the seven
> > > members of the Warren
> > > Commission, which investigated the assassination of
> > > President John F.
> > > Kennedy. The commission found that Lee Harvey Oswald
> > > was acting alone when
> > > he killed the president. Boggs, it turns out, had
> > > "strong doubts" that
> > > Oswald acted alone, but went along with the
> > > commission findings. Later, in
> > > 1971 and 1972, he went public with his doubts. He
> > > was presumed dead after
> > > the small plane carrying him and Democratic
> > > Representative Nicholas Begich
> > > disappeared in 1972.
> > >
> > >
> > > Texas Democratic Representative Mickey Leland also
> > > died in a plane crash. In
> > > his case, the six-term member of Congress and
> > > outspoken advocate of
> > > sanctions against the apartheid government of South
> > > Africa, died while
> > > traveling in Ethiopia. Another American politician
> > > to die overseas in a
> > > plane crash was the Clinton administration's
> > > Commerce Secretary, Ronald
> > > Brown, whose plane went down in the Balkans.
> > >
> > >
> > > Anyone familiar with my work knows that I'm
> > > certainly not a conspiracy
> > > theorist. But to be honest, I know I wasn't alone in
> > > my initial reaction at
> > > this week's horrible and tragic news: that being my
> > > surprise that Wellstone
> > > had lived this long. Perhaps it's just my anger and
> > > frustration at losing
> > > one of the few reputable politicians in Washington,
> > > but I also felt shame.
> > > Shame for not writing in my column, months ago, that
> > > I felt that Paul
> > > Wellstone's life, more so than any other politician
> > > in Washington, was in
> > > danger. I felt that such speculation was
> > > unprofessional and would ultimately
> > > undermine my credibility. In the end, my own
> > > self-interest triumphed, and I
> > > never put my concerns into print. Neither did any
> > > other mainstream
> > > journalist, though I know of many who shared my
> > > concern.
> > >
> > >
> > > When I heard Wellstone's plane went down, I
> > > immediately thought of
> > > Panamanian General Omar Torrijos, who in 1981
> > > thumbed his nose at the
> > > Reagan/Bush administration and threatened to destroy
> > > the Panama Canal in the
> > > event of a U.S. invasion. Torrijos died shortly
> > > thereafter when the
> > > instruments in his plane failed to function upon
> > > takeoff. Panamanians
> > > speculated that the U.S. was involved in the death
> > > of the popular dictator,
> > > who was replaced by a U.S. intelligence operative,
> > > Manuel Noreiga, who
> > > previously worked with George Bush Senior.
> > >
> > >
> > > There is no indication today that Wellstone's death
> > > was the result of foul
> > > play. What we do know, however, is that Wellstone
> > > emerged as the most
> > > visible obstacle standing in the way of a draconian
> > > political agenda by an
> > > unelected government. And now he is conveniently
> > > gone. For our government to
> > > maintain its credibility at this time, we need an
> > > open and accountable
> > > independent investigation involving international
> > > participation into the
> > > death of Paul Wellstone. Hopefully we will find out,
> > > beyond any shadow of a
> > > doubt, that this was indeed an untimely accident.
> > > For the sake of our
> > > country, we need to know this.
> > >
> > >
> > > Dr. Michael I. Niman teaches journalism and media
> > > studies at Buffalo State College.
> >
> >
> >

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> > Was Paul Wellstone Murdered?
 > >
 > > by Michael I. Niman, AlterNet
 > > October 28, 2002
 > >
 > > Paul Wellstone was the only progressive in the U.S.
 > > Senate. Mother Jones
 > > magazine once described him as, "The first 1960s
 > > radical elected to the U.S.
 > > senate." He was also the last. Since defeating
 > > incumbent Republican Rudy
 > > Boschowitz 12 years ago in a grassroots upset,
 > > Wellstone emerged as the
 > > strongest, most persistent, most articulate and most
 > > vocal Senate opponent
 > > of the Bush administration.
 > >
 > >
 > > In a senate that is one heartbeat away from
 > > Republican control, Wellstone
 > > was more than just another Democrat. He was often
 > > the lone voice standing
 > > firm against the status-quo policies of both the
 > > Democrats and the
 > > Republicans. As such, he earned the special ire of
 > > the Bush administration
 > > and the Republican Party, who made Wellstone's
 > > defeat that party's number
 > > one priority this year.
 > >
 > >
 > > Various White House figures made numerous recent
 > > campaign stops in Minnesota
 > > to stump for the ailing campaign of Wellstone's
 > > Republican opponent, Norm
 > > Coleman. Despite being outspent and outgunned,
 > > however, polls show that
 > > Wellstone's popularity surged after he voted to
 > > oppose the Senate resolution
 > > authorizing George Bush to wage war in Iraq. He was
 > > pulling ahead of Coleman
 > > and moving toward a victory that would both be an
 > > embarrassment to the Bush
 > > administration and to Democratic Quislings such as
 > > Hillary Clinton who voted
 > > to support "the president."
 > >
 > >
 > > Then he died.
 > >
 > >
 > > Wellstone now joins the ranks of other American
 > > politicians who died in
 > > small plane crashes. Another recent victim was
 > > Missouri's former Democratic
 > > governor, Mel Carnahan, who lost his life in 2000,
 > > three weeks before
 > > Election Day, during his Senatorial race against
 > > John Ashcroft. Carnahan
 > > went on to become the first dead man to win a
 > > Senatorial race, humiliating
 > > and defeating the unpopular Ashcroft posthumously.
 > > Ashcroft, despite his
 > > unpopularity, went on to be appointed Attorney
 > > General by George W. Bush.
 > > Investigators determined that Carnahan's plane went
 > > down due to "poor
 > > visibility."
 > >
 > >
 > > Carnahan was the second Missouri politician to die
 > > in a small plane crash.
 > > The first was Democratic Representative Jerry
 > > Litton, whose plane crashed
 > > the night he won the Democratic nomination for
 > > senate in 1976. His
 > > Republican opponent ultimately captured the seat
 > > from his successor in
 > > November.
 > >
 > >
 > > While an article in the New York Times on Saturday
 > > pointed out the danger
 > > politicians face due to their heavy air travel
 > > schedules, the death of a
 > > senator or member of Congress is still relatively
 > > rare, with only one other
 > > sitting U.S. Senator, liberal Republican John Heinz,
 > > dying in a plane crash
 > > since World War II. Heinz, who entered office as an
 > > outspoken opponent of
 > > the Vietnam War, later emerged as a strong proponent
 > > of health care, social
 > > services, public transportation and the environment.
 > > He also urged
 > > reconciliation with Cuba. He died when the landing
 > > gear on his small plane
 > > failed to function, and a helicopter dispatched to
 > > survey the problem
 > > crashed into his plane.
 > >
 > >
 > > One former senator, John Tower, also died in a small
 > > plane crash. Tower was
 > > best known as the chair of the Tower Commission,
 > > which investigated the
 > > Reagan/Bush era Iran/Contra scandal.
 > >
 > >
 > > Another member of a prominent government commission
 > > who died in a small
 > > plane crash was former Democratic representative and
 > > House Majority Leader
 > > Hale Boggs. Boggs was best known as one of the seven
 > > members of the Warren
 > > Commission, which investigated the assassination of
 > > President John F.
 > > Kennedy. The commission found that Lee Harvey Oswald
 > > was acting alone when
 > > he killed the president. Boggs, it turns out, had
 > > "strong doubts" that
 > > Oswald acted alone, but went along with the
 > > commission findings. Later, in
 > > 1971 and 1972, he went public with his doubts. He
 > > was presumed dead after
 > > the small plane carrying him and Democratic
 > > Representative Nicholas Begich
 > > disappeared in 1972.
 > >
 > >
 > > Texas Democratic Representative Mickey Leland also
 > > died in a plane crash. In
 > > his case, the six-term member of Congress and
 > > outspoken advocate of
 > > sanctions against the apartheid government of South
 > > Africa, died while
 > > traveling in Ethiopia. Another American politician
 > > to die overseas in a
 > > plane crash was the Clinton administration's
 > > Commerce Secretary, Ronald
 > > Brown, whose plane went down in the Balkans.
 > >
 > >
 > > Anyone familiar with my work knows that I'm
 > > certainly not a conspiracy
 > > theorist. But to be honest, I know I wasn't alone in
 > > my initial reaction at
 > > this week's horrible and tragic news: that being my
 > > surprise that Wellstone
 > > had lived this long. Perhaps it's just my anger and
 > > frustration at losing
 > > one of the few reputable politicians in Washington,
 > > but I also felt shame.
 > > Shame for not writing in my column, months ago, that
 > > I felt that Paul
 > > Wellstone's life, more so than any other politician
 > > in Washington, was in
 > > danger. I felt that such speculation was
 > > unprofessional and would ultimately
 > > undermine my credibility. In the end, my own
 > > self-interest triumphed, and I
 > > never put my concerns into print. Neither did any
 > > other mainstream
 > > journalist, though I know of many who shared my
 > > concern.
 > >
 > >
 > > When I heard Wellstone's plane went down, I
 > > immediately thought of
 > > Panamanian General Omar Torrijos, who in 1981
 > > thumbed his nose at the
 > > Reagan/Bush administration and threatened to destroy
 > > the Panama Canal in the
 > > event of a U.S. invasion. Torrijos died shortly
 > > thereafter when the
 > > instruments in his plane failed to function upon
 > > takeoff. Panamanians
 > > speculated that the U.S. was involved in the death
 > > of the popular dictator,
 > > who was replaced by a U.S. intelligence operative,
 > > Manuel Noreiga, who
 > > previously worked with George Bush Senior.
 > >
 > >
 > > There is no indication today that Wellstone's death
 > > was the result of foul
 > > play. What we do know, however, is that Wellstone
 > > emerged as the most
 > > visible obstacle standing in the way of a draconian
 > > political agenda by an
 > > unelected government. And now he is conveniently
 > > gone. For our government to
 > > maintain its credibility at this time, we need an
 > > open and accountable
 > > independent investigation involving international
 > > participation into the
 > > death of Paul Wellstone. Hopefully we will find out,
 > > beyond any shadow of a
 > > doubt, that this was indeed an untimely accident.
 > > For the sake of our
 > > country, we need to know this.
 > >
 > >
 > > Dr. Michael I. Niman teaches journalism and media
 > > studies at Buffalo State College.
 >
 >
 ></blockquote>
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