Hunter Thompson

[john darmy]

Did he kill himself because his role in the Franklin Cover-up was about to be made public, or was he murdered to keep him from writing a major article revealing that the Twin Towers were brought down by explosives? I have heard both theories, and I must admit, it's hard to imagine him as a child molester or a participant at Bohemian Grove. Anybody know the truth? <p></p><i></i>

[robertdreed]

Those are two wild, unfounded rumors, advanced in the immediate aftermath of Thompson's demise. Despite the breathless pronouncements of people like Ted Gunderson and Todd Brendan Fahey, there isn't a scrap of evidence supporting either story. <p></p><i></i>

[Dreams End]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Excerpt from 'Hey Rube'<br>By Hunter S. Thompson<br>From Part One<br><br>The New Dumb<br><br>Something is happening here<br><br>But you don't know what it is<br><br>Do you, Mister Jones?<br><br>— Bob Dylan<br><br>No sir, not a chance. Mr. Jones does not even pretend to know what's happening in America Right now, and neither does anyone else.<br><br>We have seen weird Times in this country before, but the year 2000 is beginning to look super weird. This time there really is nobody flying the plane ... We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.<br><br>The autumn months are never a calm time in America. Back to Work, Back to Football Practice, etc....Autumn is a very Traditional period, a time of strong Rituals and the celebrating of strange annual holidays like Halloween and Satanism and the fateful Harvest Moon, which can have ominous implications for some people.<br><br>Autumn is always a time of Fear and Greed and Hoarding for the winter coming on. Debt collectors are active on old people and fleece the weak and helpless. They want to lay in enough cash to weather the known horrors of January and February. There is always a rash of kidnapping and abductions of schoolchildren in the football months. Preteens of both sexes are traditionally seized and grabbed off the streets by gangs of organized perverts who traditionally give them as Christmas gifts to each other to be personal sex slaves and playthings.<br><br>Most of these things are obviously Wrong and Evil and Ugly — but at least they are Traditional. They will happen. Your driveway will ice over, your furnace will blow up, and you will be rammed in traffic by an uninsured driver in a stolen car.<br><br>But what the hell? That's why we have Insurance, eh? And the Inevitability of these nightmares is what makes them so reassuring. Life will go on, for good or ill. But some things are forever, right? The structure may be a little Crooked, but the foundations are still strong and unshakable.<br><br>Ho ho. Think again, buster. Look around you. There is an eerie sense of Panic in the air, a silent Fear and uncertainty that comes with once-reliable faiths and truths and solid Institutions that are no longer safe to believe in. ... There is a Presidential Election, right on schedule, but somehow there is no President. A new Congress is elected, like always, but somehow there is no real Congress at all — not as we knew it, anyway, and whatever passes for Congress will be as helpless and weak as whoever has to pass for the "New President."<br><br>In the world of sports, it is like playing a Super Bowl that goes into 19 scoreless Overtimes and never actually Ends...or four LA Lakers stars being murdered in different cities on the same day. Guaranteed Fear and Loathing. Abandon all hope. Prepare for the Weirdness. Get familiar with Cannibalism.<br><br>Good luck,<br><br>DOC<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Hey Rube, Nov. 20, 2000 <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=dreamsend@rigorousintuition>Dreams End</A> at: 9/27/05 6:02 pm<br></i>

[chiggerbit]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>There is always a rash of kidnapping and abductions of schoolchildren in the football months. Preteens of both sexes are traditionally seized and grabbed off the streets by gangs of organized perverts who traditionally give them as Christmas gifts to each other to be personal sex slaves and playthings.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Funny how I never looked at it quite like that until Hunter said it. He had such a way with words. <p></p><i></i>

[chiggerbit]

....such insight. <p></p><i></i>

[chiggerbit]

Such......er, intuition. <p></p><i></i>

[chiggerbit]

Actually, John, there are a couple of old threads on this. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 9/27/05 6:14 pm<br></i>

[biaothanatoi]

I'm not checking in either way on this debate, only making the point that names are so fluid in RA. The outer ring, the facade, of a perp group presents under one name, and the inner core has another, and the RA core of the core that reaches across a number of different groups has another name, or several, or none.<br><br>The Franklin perps were identified under different nicknames or codenames. 'Hunter Thompson' could easily have been another nickname - nothing more then a moniker used by one of the group as a joke (etc). I'm not disparaging Bonacci, who knew a lot of real names and went to hell and back. I'm just pointing out that following 'language trails' in RA often takes you to the wrong place. <p></p><i></i>

[dbeach]

gonzo knew lots ..I don't buy the suicide stuff ..<br><br>like vince foster suicided ..who lots<br><br>hand out with the vermin and suffer theri poisoin<br>bush/clinton criminals will leave no witnesses.. <p></p><i></i>

[thrulookingglass]

It would certainly take a "gonzo" journalist to see through the ever-growing haze that has overcome us. This exerpt from 'hey rube' shot right through me. <br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>There is an eerie sense of Panic in the air, a silent Fear and uncertainty that comes with once-reliable faiths and truths and solid Institutions that are no longer safe to believe in.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br>This is exactly how I felt, and still feal in the days after 9/11.<br>How convenient that he is no longer around to use his razor-like witt to cut through the bullshit. Thanks for that post DE. <p></p><i></i>