a UK Government official who reopened the case on Diana because of the evidence that she was murdered. This was more than 6 months ago and the evidence did not include this new eyewitness testimony.<br><br>Chalmers Johnson, Sorrows of Empire<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/11.11A.ma.terror.p.htmTerror">www.truthout.org/docs_02/....htmTerror</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <br><br>On the Hill <br>By Marc Ash <br>t r u t h o u t | Commentary <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.strike-the-root.com/cgi-local/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=root_strikers">www.strike-the-root.com/c...t_strikers</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>Sunday, 10 November, 2002 <br><br>A Republican reader of ours called in yesterday and asked, "You don't really believe that Paul Wellstone was murdered, do you?" <br><br>What could I say to him? He asks what I ask, what you ask -- what every one of Wellstone's colleagues has asked themselves. <br><br>Terror is funny that way, it eats at the heart, intimidates the soul. Officially the crash that killed Wellstone, his wife, his daughter is viewed as an accident, but every member of<br>Congress, their staffs and families, can do the math. <br><br>They know full well that Wellstone had crossed over the line. Wellstone had done what each one of them knows they dare not do - challenge the power brokers. They know that this man was willing to step right up in the face of the most powerful and ruthless people in the world and say, "No, you will not run roughshod over the community." <br><br>They know he's dead. They know his political opponent, Norm Coleman, a man hand-picked by those who Wellstone threatened, has conveniently risen to power in his place. Filibuster, anyone? <br><br>The crash itself has slipped quietly away. Not a single report of the circumstances surrounding the crash has come. We have no NTSB reports, no expert analysis no hard questions inconveniently raised prior to the election that would sweep the right to control of the entire federal government. Instead, the story has been pushed aside by news of glorious victories by those who oblige the powerful. <br><br>There were warnings, of course. Tom Daschle, that pesky obstructionist. managed to outflank the Republican leadership for a time and seize control of the Leader's office. He got a gift of deadly anthrax. Patrick Leahy, that radical from Vermont, made the unwise choice of opposing right-wing judges. His anthrax warning was likewise delivered. <br><br>Then there's the Mel Carnahan story. The former Missouri Governor opposed John Ashcroft for a US Senate seat, and subsequently died in small plane crash. Don't worry about widow Carnahan; she's out of the way now. <br><br>Wellstone was different, though. He was a wrestler; he let it be known that he would challenge the status quo head on. He would stand by his beliefs. While others seemed to heed the warnings, Paul Wellstone did not. <br><br>There is some historical precedent on which to draw; the death of Robert Kennedy in 1968 led to the ascension of Richard Nixon. Kennedy had campaigned, in part, on a platform to end the Vietnam War. To understand the ramifications of his death and Nixon's rise, go to the Vietnam memorial and look at all the names added after 1968. <br><br>The assassination of moderate Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 led to the rise of the Israeli right-wing. To understand the ramifications of that, see your morning paper. <br><br>The precedent set by the death of Wellstone and the subsequent ascension of his opponent Coleman has the gravest of implications. The two men espoused diametrically opposed ideologies. The shift from Wellstone to Coleman is as dramatic as any the US Senate has ever seen. It is a stark and immediate reversal of fortune ushered in by the grim reaper. <br><br><br>------- <br>You can send comments to t r u t h o u t Editor Marc Ash at:
ma@truthout.com <br><br>Two years ago, all eyes were on the Senate race of Senator Paul Wellstone. In the wake of the defection of Jim Jeffords, the White House hand-picked Norm Coleman to attempt to unseat the populist Wellstone. But Coleman still trailed Wellstone late in the campaign. On October 11th, Wellstone voted against the President’s war on Iraq, despite a dire personal warning of "severe ramifications" from Vice President Cheney. As the result of his vote, Wellstone’s popularity soared.<br><br>Then tragedy struck. Just ten days before his probable ee-election, Senator Wellstone was killed in the mysterious crash of his small aircraft. On October 25, 2002, the American people suffered the loss of a leader for peace and justice. Some folks harbored suspicions. <br><br>And some remember how the media blamed the weather.<br><br>After two years of research, James Fetzer, Ph.D. and Don "Four Arrows" Jacobs, Ph.D., prove that the weather did not kill Senator Wellstone. Nor were the two pilots ncompetent,<br>as the final report of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) would claim.<br><br>With impeccable logic, these two highly-lauded university professors ask the hard questions: <br><br>Why the mysterious cessation of communication from the airplane right before the crash? <br><br>Why did a passer-by experience cell phone interference at the exact time the pilots lost control? <br><br>How did the FBI arrive at the crash scene, only an hour or so after the first responders, and eight hours before the NTSB?<br><br>At the time of Senator Wellstone’s death, 69% of Minnesotans polled said they had a hunch a "GOP Conspiracy" was at play. Now, a new book makes the case that the common people were right all along..<br><br>On October 25th, on the two year anniversary of Wellstone’s crash, Authors Jim Fetzer and Four Arrows will join Publisher Sander Hicks in Washington to reveal about what really happened that day. At the National Press Club, they will announce publication of American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone.<br><br>"With new evidence and scientific rigor, Drs. Fetzer and Jacobs systematically appraise the alternative explanations for the death of a United States Senator. Their conclusion–that Paul Wellstone was the target of an assassination–is very disturbing. It should motivate authorities to launch a formal inquiry into the death of this remarkable American."<br><br>–Donald T. Phillips<br><br>Author, Lincoln on Leadership<br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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