More sad news to start the year with, for some reason I thoughts or felt that death wasnt going to happen in a while. But once again free-will wins, and another great person lost in history and disbelief. I havent been a long time fan, but i have read some books and seen old films and Thompson had some edge or just brilliant ideas that battle back in forth like a drug frenzy. Well it stinks, but its easier to face it and I dont think anyone could fill this guys shoes this guy was a nut with a great sense of humor . Well another bites the dust, read the story it has some interesting facts and some history on Thompson if you havent heard anything from him. Here’s a couple of links; https://www.turkishpress.com/w.asp?s=u&i=050222231111.wx9uy2x1
It’s scary and true, i thought he was the case that was going to prove everyone wrong. Makes me relfect on myself aswell, but in a way, i could tell he’s that type of person, plus i read that he was very sick at the time.
Im not sure if it was everday of living pain, but im sure he could Justify it
I like Thompson’s ESPN column. I was never a fan of his political ramblings, but everyone is entitled to his opinion. When I heard this story I was struck by how bizarre the whole thing was, and how strangely it was being covered by the various media. His suicide has been glorified by columnists and television personalities. People with the opposite political views have shredded this guy. People with the same views are treating him like a messiah.
The thing is, this is a really sad event regardless of what you think of Thompson. He felt so trapped and depressed that he ended his life with his grandchild in the house with him. His wife was on the phone. He obviously loved her, and was trying so hard to hold on, while not being able to deal with staying alive and living in this world. What utter grief and despair and peronsally emptiness he must have felt.
Every life is precious, and imo God loves every person, and therefore I feel very, very sorry for Hunter Thompson and his family.
Hunter was working on a book about the truth behind 9/11 and warned that the feds would get to him and make it look like a suicide.
“Hunter telephoned me on Feb. 19, the night before his death. He sounded scared. It wasn’t always easy to understand what he said, particularly over the phone, he mumbled, yet when there was something he really wanted you to understand, you did. He’d been working on a story about the World Trade Center attacks and had stumbled across what he felt was hard evidence showing the towers had been brought down not by the airplanes that flew into them but by explosive charges set off in their foundations. Now he thought someone was out to stop him publishing it: “They’re gonna make it look like suicide,” he said. “I know how these bastards think . . .”” prisonplanet.com/articles/ma … warned.htm
Wow that was from Alex Jones; I have seen a couple of his documentaries, he’s involved with alot of conspiracies, and im surprised to read this one. The reason why im surprised, b/c most of his conspiracies are somewhat true and the public doesnt give it a chance of thought. This new story is quite far fetch, but most of his stories are, but he does have evidence in other stories that I have seen, so… I saw the Bohemian Grove video, its all about Skull and Bones and the United States Presidents. Very Interesting Lebowsk1, crazy or not, i take all opinions and stories, you really never know.
Yeah, the above quote was not actually from Alex but is on his site. Jones is amazing, really not afraid to pull his punches, and his new documentary is really great (a lot of it is given away free on his site). For those who don’t know he was the guy in Waking Life driving the car with the megaphone.
Sorry, but there’s no way I’m going to believe that it wasn’t suicide. He was on the phone to his wife at the time that he shot himself. Plus, three children were in the house with him, one of which in the very next room.
I have no respect for this guy, and I don’t care how good his book was. He intentionally went out of his way to kill himself in plain view of a six year-old kid, and while talking to his wife on the phone. He didn’t even tell her what he was about to do. He just said, “Hold on a minute”, then shot himself in the head with the phone still up to his ear. He was screwed up, and that’s pretty much all there is to it. A lifetime of hard drugs will do that to a person.
Lebowsk1. You seem like the kind of person that doesn’t think they are nieve. But the truth seems to be that you are nieve about any other idea rather than the truth.
Don’t you think his family would be a little upset at the government? They would be the first ones to think of it suspicious but they don’t. They know he killed himself. They can’t deny it.
Quite Cold, I have to say. Respect or not, listening any opinon or any side is what I consider. Very far fetch story, but I have to say, there’s nothing in this world that surpises me.
There are conflicting reports about the circumstances. And don’t you find it interesting that he spoke in the past about fears that the CIA would assasinate him and make it look like a suicide? And that he was working on a big 9/11 project at the time? You don’t find that in the least thought-provoking?
lol Oh and by the way, the CIA already tried to send him to prison before by sending a woman into his house posing as a friend of a friend to find evidence of drug use of any kind. He had to fight tooth and nail to stay out of prison, they had it in for him for a long time. Don’t speak so harshly about people you don’t know at all.
Meh. Everybody has their own version of truth, I just happen to believe mine is based on rational analysis and not acceptance of propoganda. Hunter had been harrassed by the feds all his life, he warned about what would happen, he was working on an extremely sensitive subject at the time… coupled with the 9/11 issue I think its pretty clear what happened.
But no, wait a minute… the US government would never have someone ASSASSINATED, would they?! Good God no!! I mean that’s just science fiction!!!
Well wait a minute, if you are going to use that logic for the Hunter S. situation then why not use it for the 9/11 issue? Because many of the relatives of the deceased workers and firefighters (and surviving firefighters themselves) do not side with the ‘official’ version of events. So does that give the 9/11 truth movement more validity or not?
March 19, 2005—Are we going to let this pass? That 67-year old Hunter Thompson allegedly blew himself away while he was on the phone with his wife and while she heard the muffled sound? And while his son, son’s wife and grandson, were in the house at the same time? And his son thought the shot was the sound of a book falling from a shelf? And that Thompson did this despite the fact that he was in good health, mentally and physically, looking forward to his wife’s arrival to work on a column with him? And that, more importantly, Thompson was also working on two highly sensitive stories?
One was a book-length story that the government may have been involved in 9/11 and that bombs were the cause of the Twin Towers’ collapse not the planes that flew into them. This based on explosive evidence Thompson had stumbled upon. The other story was that sex slave rings were connected to the White House, equally explosive to the wrong people.
In fact, Thompson thought someone was out to stop him from publishing the first story. In his own words, “They’re gonna make it look like suicide. I know how these bastards think,” as reported to and by journalist Paul William Roberts in an article for the Toronto Globe and Mail. Also reported was that Thompson’s body was found in a chair in the kitchen in front of his typewriter, where he was also purportedly on the phone with his wife. The word “counselor,” his own enigmatic “Rosebud,” the key perhaps to his true killer, was the only word found typed in the center of a page of stationery from the Fourth Amendment Foundation, an organization he discovered ironically to defend victims of unwarranted search and seizure.
The truth is other writers have dealt with this material of the Twin Towers going down due to detonation of bombs throughout the structures. And there have been stories by other writers about Gannongate and the GannonCannon respectively. But perhaps none of these writers were as high profile. And in all due respect, would not be as effectively gonzo as the man who brought you, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, among others. F & L '72 gave you all the squalid details and then some of the selection of Tricky Dick, who was to face off with the likes of Hubert Horatio Humphrey or Ed ‘Ibogaine’ Muskie. Thompson was a generation’s main scribe, who told all, including what was under the eyeballs and skin of his subject. "
I won’t say it isn’t thought-provoking. But there just doesn’t seem to be enough evidence (as far as I’m aware) to suggest that he was assassinated. Lots of people are working on disclosing the truth behind the events of 9/11, but why would the government target one particular person who’s famous enough that the entire world will hear of his death? That would just raise suspicion. Besides, I’ve read interviews with both his wife and his son. There was nobody in the room with him at the time that he shot himself, and his son + grandson would have surely seen another person enter or leave. He was alone when he pulled the trigger, and he killed himself.
I don’t believe I was “speaking harshly” of him. I just mentioned that he was known to have a long history with illicit substances, and I was implying that this may have had something to do with his decision to end his life. Personally, I think he did it because he was afraid that the government was planning to kill him. He was a very paranoid person, which is probably why he started looking into the whole 9/11 thing in the first place. Makes more sense to me.
Well as it says in that article extract I posted, none of the writers working on 9/11 are as high profile as Thompson and therefore if he was allowed to join them he would seriously add to their strength (Michael Moore is high-profile but, for whatever reasons, seriously pulls his punches, something I don’t think Thompson would have done). The reason he’s an ideal candidate for such an assassination is that he’s the sort of guy a lot of people could accept commited suicide at first glance because of the drug use. As Thompson himself said “they’ll make it look like suicide, I know how the bastards think”. But this could be argued either way, it is kinda circular reasoning for either of us.
I imagine the CIA are very good at killing people they don’t like…
This is the key question: is it paranoia or is it the truth? Firstly, in ‘Kingdom of Fear’ (a book I consider very lucid), Thompson documents his previous run ins with the CIA and feds so I don’t think it is fair to say he’s being paranoid in fearing they are out to do him harm (because they have done so in the past, very publicly). Secondly I think with the current US government there is full justification for not trusting their word, and in the case of 9/11 I think the evidence suggests it is not merely paranoia responsible for the ‘conspiracy theories’, of which Thompson would have made a high-profile advocate.
The third world war seems to me to be a war of information.
If it wasnt for the links to 9/11 I’d totally agree with you. But it seems that this government has absolutely no qualms about killing its own citizens.
and I dont think anyone could fill this guys shoes 
this guy was a nut with a great sense of humor 
. Well another bites the dust, read the story it has some interesting facts and some history on Thompson if you havent heard anything from him. Here’s a couple of links;
