{"id":364885,"date":"2018-06-10T12:27:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T11:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-was-he-murdered-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-06-10T12:27:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T11:27:26","slug":"why-was-he-murdered-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-was-he-murdered-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Was He Murdered? &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><em>On October 25<\/em><em><sup>th<\/sup><\/em><em>, 2002 the last great hero of the common people in the US Senate was very likely murdered by agents of the shadow US crime cabal government otherwise known as the Bush-Cheney regime. His wife and daughter and two pilots also died in the air crash. Paul Wellstone\u2019s story deserves to be retold and Americans need to be reminded that criminals in and out of our government still need to be punished for their unindicted crimes. This article was written as both a tribute to an outstanding American patriot and a reexamination of his probable assassination by criminals still on the loose.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Democratic<strong>\u00a0Senator Paul Wellstone<\/strong>\u00a0was a man of integrity who was among the few politicians openly and adamantly opposing the Iraq invasion as well as the creation of the US version of Gestapo-land Security. As a fearless populist leader he\u2019d been a constant thorn in the side ever since then\u00a0<strong>President George H. W. Bush<\/strong>\u00a0responding to the junior senator\u2019s uncomfortable questions at a reception asked, \u201cWho is this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fromthewilderness.com\/free\/ww3\/110102_wellstone.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">chickenshit?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Years later as the only senator up for reelection who voted against the Iraq War when Democrats held just a one seat edge over the Republicans in the Senate (with one independent caucusing with Democrats), his thorny side made him\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2002\/10\/well-o29.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the #1 GOP target<\/a>. With the Karl Rove led Republican Party just one seat away from gaining Republican control over the US Senate, Wellstone\u2019s death gave his Republican\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.assassinationscience.com\/Town_Talk_Review.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">challenger\u00a0<strong>Norm Coleman<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the 49-49 split and, as the President of the Senate, Cheney\u2019s tie breaking vote would deliver the GOP 50-49\u00a0advantage needed to steamroll yet more tax cuts through for the rich, unending bankers\u2019 wars and a never seen before boom for the military-security industrial complex&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/06\/joachim-hagopian\/tribute-to-the-last-honorable-us-senator-the-story-of-paul-wellstones-suspected-assassination\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 25th, 2002 the last great hero of the common people in the US Senate was very likely murdered by agents of the shadow US crime cabal government otherwise known as the Bush-Cheney regime. His wife and daughter and two pilots also died in the air crash. Paul Wellstone\u2019s story deserves to be retold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-364885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}