Bodies need to be assembled outside somewhere important, with money donated from private citizens to provide services to those who participate. Organization, like the kind we have on the internet today, needs to carry on outside of our homes in waves of sounds and images from a location that is close enough to the suits that they consider dispatching spooks into the crowds armed with itching powder and cyanide tablets in case they are uncovered before it’s too late.

How about a couple of people dousing themselves with gasoline and lighting a match? I’ve been saying for a while now, that a handfull of folks willing to make that sacrifice could provide the drama that the actual war obviously cannot.

I may sound insane to some of you, but whatever the case, I couldn’t sound as insane as Bush, Cheney or Rumsfeld.

[Mod note; let’s all pray the gasoline stays out of the equation.]

The list is long and growing with the tragic loss of Paul Sanford.

Others to be remembered

CGCS Investigative Report

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Florida DOT investigator Ray Lemme | Suicide

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Executive Director John Millis | Suicide

State Dept. Iraq intelligence analyst John Kokal | Suicide

Former CIA official Dr Gus Weiss | Suicide

Dr David Kelly of Britain’s MOD | Suicide

Danny Casolaro | Suicide
(Friend of Danny’s) Paul Wilcher died after beginning research on what Casolaro was following

Charles Ruff and HPSCI’s ranking member Julian Dixon dropped dead only weeks apart after being briefed by Millis on CIA-Bush-drug connection.

John F Kennedy Jr was working on a Bush-CIA-covert ops story for his George Magazine when his plane crashed.

Lori Klausutis discover before her body was discovered in Jan. 2001 in the FL office of GOP Congressman Joe Scarborough

Cliff Baxter, chief Enron witness for the govt. shot himself before he testified

John Tower had the goods on the Bushes, but his commuter plane crashed and killed him, his daughter and several other passengers.

Paul Wellstone and his family and staff

Bush biographer JH Hatfield **

Athan Gibbs, the founder of TruVote International, the only clean election machine company. ***

Schoedinger had accused Bush of rape and other sexual crimes against both her and her husband, only one publication in the USA saw fit to print anything about her or her allegations. That publication was her local newspaper. Her subsequent suicide earlier this year raised many eyebrows amongst those who learned of her death via the internet. Even though the sequence of events was bizarre, again the American media ignored Schoedinger completely. ****

Prominent Journalist Killed In San Francisco
Dec. 10 (BCN) — Beverly Kees, 63, the former president of the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists was struck and killed today crossing Harrison Street in San Francisco.

Mr. Lemme was an investigator with the Florida Department of Transportation who resided in Tallahassee, Florida. Mr. Lemme honorably served our country in Vietnam and was an active U.S. Air Force reservist at the time his of death. He was investigating serious allegations made against a Chinese software firm that had U.S. government contracts.

In Novemeber, Dr. Benito Que, cell biologist working on infectious diseases like HIV was found comatose outside of his lab at the Miami Medical School.

Within of week of Dr. Que’s assault, Dr. Don C Wiley, foremost infectious disease researcher was declared missing. His rental car was found with a full tank of gas and the keys in the ignition. His disappearance made to look like a suicide.

On November 23rd, Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, the foremost Soviet Biopreparat scientist who was responsible for aerosolizing plague and was the successful developer of binary weapons known as the ‘Novichok group’ of weapons was found dead.

On December 10th, Dr. Robert M. Schwartz was found murdered in his secluded farmhouse in Leesberg, Va. Dr. Schwartz was a well-known DNA sequencing researcher. He founded the Virginia Biotechnology Association where he worked on DNA sequencing in his lab for 15 years.

Halfway around the world in December, a skilled microbiologist was killed at CSIRO’s animal diseases facility in Geelong, Australia. He had logged 15 years’ experience with the unit. Victoria Police said Set Van Nguyen, 44, appeared to have died after entering an airlock into a storage laboratory filled with nitrogen. His body was found when his wife became worried after he failed to return from work. *

The Washington Post mocks the reporter connecting the CIA to Crack coacaine. “The San Jose Mercury News has apparently had enough of reporter Gary Webb and his efforts to prove that the CIA was involved in the sale of crack cocaine,” announced Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz, who has written some of the harshest attacks on Webb. “Editors at the California newspaper have yanked Webb off the story and told him they will not publish his follow-up articles. They have also moved to transfer Webb from the state capital bureau in Sacramento to a less prestigious suburban office in Cupertino.” [Washington Post, June 11, 1997] *****

63 Dead reporters in Iraq in a year and a half as opposed to 60 reporters killed during the entire duration of the Viet Nam war….

Paul Sanford is dead.

(Snip)

Almost immediately, he caused a stir after he joined the White House Press Corps in 2005, making waves as the first reporter to ask then-White House press secretary Scott McClellan whether the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame’s name might be considered an act of treason.

Kind of like the J.H. Hatfield suicide.

You know, sort of like Robert Stevens death.

-GSD

Add John Kokal, U.S. government Iraq expert who “committed suicide” just as he was telling Congress no, there really wasn’t any WMD right before the war, and Dr. David Kelly, who “committed suicide” after some people in Britain thought his knowledge of the real WMD situation was too dangerous.

Bless you, gal. You make my stoopid jokes almost seem therapeutic. At least they are for me. Laugh or cry, or equal measures of both sometimes….

I always get a bit of a kick, reminding myself the days a-r-e getting longer as soon as we pass the winter solstice, eh?

Sun’s actually shining here today – ‘ere. have a cup ‘r three. ;->

Iraq is a tragedy, a mistake, a quagmire, a disaster, ill-conceived, a gordonian knot, and whatever else you want to call it. However, the last newsworthy event was the election and installation of a powerless government. There’s not a “new angle” on Iraq because there is nothing new there. Realizing this conciously or unconciously doesn’t qualify as writer’s block. It just means you are ahead of the curve.

If you want to write something about Iraq, start writing a book of stupid Bush quotes. You can start with “Great Job Brownie”, “I want Rumsfield to serve as Secretary of Defense until the end of my second administration” and “The Lesson of Vietnam is to never quit.”