Death of Hunter S Thompson
Hunter S Thompson, gonzo journalist, is dead. It is claimed that he committed suicide by shooting himself. Personally, I have my doubts.
“In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are f*cked until we can put our acts together: Not necessarily to Win, but mainly to keep from Losing Completely.”
From: The Great Shark Hunt“Let’s face it–the yo-yo president of the U.S.A. knows nothing. He is a dunce. He does what he is told to do–says what he is told to say–poses the way he is told to pose. He is a Fool. This is never an easy thing for the voters of this country to accept. No. Nonsense. The president cannot be a Fool. Not at this moment in time–when the last living vestiges of the American Dream are on the line. This is not the time to have a bogus rich kid in charge of the White House. Which is, after all, our house. That is our headquarters–it is where the heart of America lives. So if the president lies and act giddy about other people’s lives–if he wantonly and stupidly endorses mass murder as a logical plan to make sure that we are still Number One–he is a Jackass by definition–a loud and meaningless animal with no fundamental intelligence and no balls. To say that this goofy child president is looking more and more like Richard Nixon in the summer of 1974 would be a flagrant insult to Nixon. Whoops! Did I say that? Is it even vaguely possible that some New Age Republican whore-beast of a false president could actually make Richard Nixon look like a liberal?”
- From Kingdom of Fear, Simon & Schuster, 2003“Today, the Panzer-like Bush machine controls all three branches of our federal government, the first time that has happened since Calvin Coolidge was in the White House. And that makes it just about impossible to mount any kind of Congressional investigation of a firmly-entrenched president like George Bush. The time has come to get deeply into Football. It is the only thing we have left that ain’t fixed.
-From ESPN “Hey Rube” column“Kerry will win this election, if it happens, by a bigger margin than Bush finally gouged out of Florida in 2000. That was about forty-six percent, plus five points for owning the U.S. Supreme Court — which seemed to equal fifty-one percent. Nobody really believed that, but George W. Bush moved into the White House anyway. It was the most brutal seizure of power since Hitler burned the German Reichstag in 1933 and declared himself the new Boss of Germany. Karl Rove is no stranger to Nazi strategy, if only because it worked, for a while, and it was sure as hell fun for Hitler. But not for long. He ran out of oil, the whole world hated him, and he liked to gobble pure crystal biphetamine and stay awake for eight or nine days in a row with his maps & his bombers & his dope-addled general staff. They all loved the whiff. It is the perfect drug for War — as long as you are winning — and Hitler thought he was King of the Hill forever. He had created a new master race, and every one of them worshipped him. The new Hitler youth loved to march and sing songs in unison and dance naked at night for the generals. They were fanatics. That was sixty-six years ago, far back in ancient history, and things are not much different today. We still love War. George Bush certainly does. In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what? He is the President of the United States, and you’re not. Love it or leave it.”
“Fear and Loathing, Campaign 2004” by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson in Rolling Stone“We were angry and righteous in those days, and there were millions of us. We kicked two chief executives out because they were stupid warmongers. We conquered Lyndon Johnson and we stomped on Richard Nixon - which wise people said was impossible, but so what? It was fun. We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river. That river is still running. All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.”
“Ugly, Tasteless, Terrifying and Wild… Count Me In!”“The Kansas-Syracuse game was barely over when I learned to my horror that the United States Marines were killing journalists in Baghdad. Three journalists have died in Baghdad so far, and not one of them was killed by Enemy Fire. They were shot down like dogs by U.S. military personel, killed and wounded and mangled by Americans, who drive American M1 Abrahms battle tanks and eat all-American pie, just like the rest of us. American troops are killing journalists in a profoundly foreign country, under cover of a war being fought for savage, greed-crazed reasons that most of them couldn’t explain or even understand.”
From “A Sad Week in America,” ESPN“Last month, after the Drudge Report linked to a recent Hunter S. Thompson article (”Let’s Go to the Olympics,” May 18, 2004) an editor at ESPN asked that an inflammatory statement be removed. “Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these [Abu Ghraib] photographs did,” Thompson’s sentence read, before eventually being scrubbed. Though Thompson was merely stating opinion, ESPN recognized the controversy behind the quip and changed it. “Hunter can go too far sometimes,” the editor reportedly said.”
From “Hunter S. Thompson, George W. Bush and the Free Republic” by Maureen Farrell, June 16, 2004
UPDATE: Updated April 6
An update: March 7, 2005, O’Collegian
Excerpted from “Mysterious deaths weaken the ‘left-wing media’ myth” by Brent Battle
“Those ascribing to the “liberal bias” myth believe the press will take any attempt to tarnish the President and other right-wingers credibility and reputations. If this were so, surely they would’ve picked up on the suspicious suicides of people pointing fingers at our government leaders — Hunter S. Thompson, Gary Webb, Terrance Yeakey and Margie Schoedinger. Ironically, all four lives ended before evidence could be presented calling out the political heads involved in corruption and scandals.
The night before Thompson’s death, he told his friend at the Toronto Globe he had been working on a book regarding the Sept. 11 attacks being a controlled demolition — strategically placed explosives. He claimed “hard evidence” gathered proves the buildings were not brought down by planes and was afraid he might be “suicided.”
Oklahoma City Police Officer Terrance Yeakey was one of the first responders to the Murrah Building bombing on April 19, 1995. He was working on presenting evidence to the public about the bombing being a government cover-up, but he was found dead in a field in El Reno. The report claimed he slit both his wrist, stabbed himself in both sides of the jugular, then walked from his car a mile and a half and shot himself. “The bullet entered the upper temple on the right side and exited below the upper jaw bone on the left side, meaning the gun would have been pointed in a downward angle - a most unlikely way for a person bent on suicide to hold a gun,” according to the Spotlight, an Internet news source.
Gary Webb, who died last December, was working on a book about the government cover-up of CIA drug smuggling in the 1980s. His findings will be highlighted in the film “American Drug War” by Alex Jones. The clip he will use is from a special by MSNBC on the drug-smuggling featuring Webb. Following Webb’s mysterious death, no follow-up story has been made by MSNBC. The only hole in the story noticeable on the surface was how Webb managed to shoot himself in the head twice.
Like Thompson and Yeakey, Webb’s friends and family saw no indication he was a man about to end his own life. In addition, none of them left suicide notes. In fact, Thompson, Yeakey and Webb were working on something monumental.
The most interesting death thus far is the alleged suicide Margie Shoedinger, the only woman who has accused President Bush of sexual assault. After Shoedinger died on Sept. 22, 2003, the only news organizations to run this story were the one in her local town and the “New Nation” in London, a very small circulated paper. The story has gone virtually unnoticed, completely blacked out from the public eye.
One would assume if the media in this country hates Bush and Republicans so much, they would run more stories like these. But that is the lie being spread on television and radio — that a “liberal media” bias truly exists.
“They’re gonna make it look like suicide,” Thompson told his friend at the Toronto Globe. “I know how these bastards think.”
Thanks Richard.
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PusBoy Says:
You know, although I am from Thompson’s home town, and I read some of this stuff in Rolling Stone in the 1980s and 1990s, I never really paid that much attention to him. The quotes you’ve pulled suggest that I was missing out.
Thanks.
Posted on February 21st, 2005 at 3:53 pm
John Says:
Thank you for the chuckle. I’m a consertative who was just curious as to what some liberal blogs are like.
So, you have your doubts? You think Hunter Thompson was maybe assasinated by a CIA hit squad or something? Come on, man. Why would anyone bother? Not to disrespect the deceased, but I never heard of him until now. Do you think that Bush and his team were standing around saying, “Oh, we can’t allow him to live! Hunter Thompson MUST DIE!!!”
Posted on February 23rd, 2005 at 10:52 pm
VirusHead Says:
Yup, I have my doubts. For one thing, he was alone and vulnerable. More suspicious is that he doesn’t appear to have left a suicide note. Finally, he was very critical of this administration - and frankly, yeah, I think they are capable of it. Thompson is a bit like… Wellstone. If you’ve never heard of him, you lead a sheltered life. I’m not claiming that he was killed, but it would have been easy to drug him up and position it to look like a suicide. I only have suspicions, but those suspicions have not been soothed away as yet.
Posted on February 24th, 2005 at 11:27 am
david189 Says:
Heidi,
Again your facts and logic seem to be lacking. According to Thompson’s wife, she was on the phone with him when he stuck the gun in his mouth and killed himself. Follow the link.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jeffjacoby/jj20050304.shtml
Posted on March 4th, 2005 at 9:44 pm
VirusHead Says:
First of all, I didn’t claim to be making an argument of any kind, much less one based on “facts and knowledge.” Last time I checked it was still legal for someone to have doubts.. I simply said - if you woul dbother to check - that I personally had my doubts. Someone who knew him well also mentioned that he was surprised that there was no note.
Also, you might note that your argument about facts and knowledge is based on information published today, not on my post date of February 21. Is is really worth your while to stop your worthy writing at “The Conservative” to bother with this?
But, ok, ok, if it means that much to you - it appears more obvious to me now that it was indeed a suicide, and my suspicions on this matter have been soothed..
Care to speculate on why we haven’t heard much on the careful investigation of the Wellstone crash? Just curious.
Posted on March 4th, 2005 at 10:42 pm
david189 Says:
After reading several articles at from the Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul newspaper, it seems that a good bit of investigation was done. The analysis seems to be that the pilot and or co-pilot were to blame, and had a past history of questionable decision makin while flying the Senator. These reports can be found at
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1752/. However, I imagine you have a better understanding of what happened.
Posted on March 5th, 2005 at 10:43 am
VirusHead Says:
David, I am all for discussion and debate between those who follow the rules of engagement. At one point, you said that you wanted a fruitful dialogue and I took you at your word. However, I am not finding it fruitful or even civil and now I am specifically requesting that you refrain from commenting on my blog again. I will of course do you the same courtesy.
Posted on March 5th, 2005 at 11:17 am
skavoovi Says:
Looks like your doubts may be justified:
The initial February 21AP report was unequivocal. He shot himself. His own wife and son issued a statement to that effect.
(The obit-style biography in that article is quite good, by the way. The story might be told differently if it were a recognized fact that he was assassinated. But it’s a good neutral history.)
Then I started seeing more articles, more research and analysis, gatherings of links, the cybercharged grassroots development of an idea carried on in the public domain, like Linux or MP3 …
There was an article in The Globe & Mail on February 26, which is hard to get now if you aren’t a subscriber, but it said this: “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 . . .’”
(Though the Globe & Mail article is hard to get, you can read about it at Infowars and Hugo Zoom. The introductory paragraph appears to have been made up, which is a pretty cheap shot because only the first paragraph appears for free. The rest you have to pay for. Kind of like the front page of some of those really crappy tabloids with articles about two-headed alien births that turn out to just be imagined when you get to the jump page. The second paragraph, the paid-for one, says “That’s how I imagine a tribute to Hunter S. Thompson should begin. He was indeed working on such a story, but it wasn’t what killed him…” So the article goes on to debunk any speculations from the outset. But it affirms that he was working on such a story, which is the important part. If he said he would feel trapped without the option of suicide, it certainly doesn’t prove he actually did commit suicide at that moment. Many have said the same and are still here. All this just muddies the waters, obviously.)
He was working on an article about the WTC attacks, apparently. Did he really believe he had “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”? Hard evidence to verify what the whole world could see with their own eyes, but refused to see that way. Three buildings, not only the two that were hit with jets, imploded exactly the way buildings do when they are knocked down with strategically placed charges. Still, though it looks that way, you need hard evidence to make such a startling leap with its enormous implications.
There was also an interview with Mike O’Regan in August 2002, that shows Thompson pointing the finger at the White House in regard to who would benefit from 9/11, who had the means, motive and opportunity. As in other cases, he expresses restraint in terms of talking about it in public. You can read a partial transcript at Infowars, or a longer one (still censored) indybay.org or listen to the clip at Libertythink
Can anyone imagine how important it would be to keep the lid on a crime like that? That is, if there really is some kind of complicity among high government officials in the catastrophe of 9/11 in order to create an environment that would be congenial to a militaristic agenda, as stated specifically in the Project for a New American Century papers. Would a power structure that would wage shock-and-awe warfare on an innocent population in Iraq with no logically supportable justification be restrained in its effort to rid itself of all serious opposition with murder if necessary?
Once that particular hole is blown in the official world view of American citizens, the rest could come unraveled. And that is not what the Cheneyites want to see. And in case you haven’t noticed, Cheney is not a kind sort.
Neither is Bush, of course. I heard a clip of him this morning on Democracy Now. His hatefulness is becoming more overt. His threatening, swaggering manner is becoming more open as he leaves his Compassionate Conservative disguise far behind. But we’re getting off track… The point is, these are very serious people, not at all averse to using violence, all available force, to the point of mass killing to achieve their objectives.
On February 25, the Associated Press tells us that “Thompson shot self while talking with wife”. (Or in the Star Tribune version: “Hunter Thompson shot himself while wife listened on phone, she says”.)
According to the AP report, “She said her husband had asked her to come home from a health club so they could work on his weekly ESPN column — but instead of saying goodbye, he set the telephone down and shot himself.”
Hey baby, why don’t you come home so you can work on my ESPN column with me and excuse me just a minute, I’m going to put down the phone and shoot myself.
According to the article, “Thompson said she heard a loud, muffled noise, but didn’t know what had happened. ‘I was waiting for him to get back on the phone,’ she said. (Her account to Rocky Mountain News reporter Jeff Kass is slightly different: ‘I did not hear any bang,’ she told Kass. She added that Thompson’s son, who was in the house at the time, believed that a book had fallen when he heard the shot, according to Kass’ report.)”
We report, you decide. In the context above, Thompson is having a routine conversation with his wife. He is not distressed. Suddenly he puts down the phone. She hears a “muffled noise,” she says. She says it’s not a “bang”. Thompson’s son was in the house and thought he heard a book fall.
As the Infowars site suggests, this scenario perfectly fits a killing by a hitman with a silencer. It does not fit a suicide without a good deal of bending
Posted on March 6th, 2005 at 8:36 pm
VirusHead Says:
Sounds a bit like the death of the woman who accused Bush of sexual assault - died “an apparent suicide,” shot to the head. There’s a lot of criticism about Thompson and his life - the conservatives talked it up for a bit. He was certainly no paragon of virtue, but his value wasn’t about virtue - it was about originality, showing more blantantly that the journalist is part of the story. At least he performed his own dialogue. In any case, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of interest in questioning the official story… not yet anyway. I think he was a little too dramatic to shoot himself - no note - in the middle of a phone call after making plans for later. I wonder what forensics is doing with the scene, if anything.
Posted on March 13th, 2005 at 11:01 pm
john Says:
hst is a person who probably tried every mind altering substance known to man and he chose to shoot himself in the head? just doesn’t make sense. perhaps he fulfilled his prophecy or someone else did it for him. what gets me the most is the lack of media coverage and i just went to cnn website and one of the articles about the suicide has been removed. john deloeren got more coverrage as well notably lesser celebs why? when i told my wife she was shocked and this is a week or so after, when she purchsed a book at the bookstore(national chain) they did not even know.
Posted on March 27th, 2005 at 10:45 am
chuy leviticus Says:
america was out walking with her man one night when, out of the shadows, a well-dressed giant with a gold-plated gun confronted them. he removed his coat and gave it to america to hold. she held the coat as the giant beat her man unconscious and finally blew his brains out. afterwards, he took his coat back and thanked america.
Posted on April 2nd, 2005 at 3:45 pm
VirusHead Says:
Well… I’m not sure how to interpret the parable here from Chuy at University of Arizona. Perhaps you could post an interpretation?
Posted on April 2nd, 2005 at 4:56 pm
Ann Says:
The Margie Shoedinger thing has been bothering me for over a year since I first heard of it. The media won’t touch it and most blogs won’t even touch it. The blackout is what scares me, not whether or not there is any validity to her story. She may have been a nut, but the story deserved investigation. The public has a right to know about the accusation.
Maybe someone did kill her. Very few women kill themselves with a gun. It is statistically very low. Even if she was unbalanced the statistics still stand because balanced folks tend not to commit suicide in the first place. Now if she was murdered, it was probably by some wing nut trying to be patriotic. Probably no conspiracy. But, for Pete’s sake, this story has national implications and the media should have covered it!
Posted on April 13th, 2005 at 8:01 pm
JUSTICE 4 TROY Says:
MY ONLY REGREAT IN HUNTER S THOMPSON’S DEATH IS THAT LAWRENCE E. KING JR.(FORMER FRANKLIN CREDIT UNION’S MANAGER OMAHA NE,)DID,NT DIE RIGHT ALONE WITH HIM. I THINK ANYONE WHO SEXUALLY ABUSES CHILDREN(AS DID LAWRENCE E.KING JR.)AND ANYONE WHO FILMS IT(AS DID HUNTER S THOMPSON IN JANUARY 1984 AT BOHEMIAN GROVE)IS WORTHY OF DEATH)IF YOU GUYS REALLY WANT TO HONOR SOMEONE HONOR TROY BONER WHO DIED BECAUSE OF THE ABUSE HE SUFFERED BY LARRY E KING JR. AND ORTHER HIGHER UP’S SOME PROBALLY ON CAPITAL HILL(RIGHT NOW)THEY FEAREDTHAT THAT HE WOULD EXPOSE THE WHO’S WHO IN THE FRANKLIN COVER UP SCANDAL AND HUNTER WAS APART OF THAT. THATS WAY HE WAS KILLED.4 CAN KEEP A SECRET IF 3 ARE DEAD.
(Note from VirusHead - duly noted - not familiar with what you’re saying, but will look into it. “All caps” strictly necessary?)
Posted on April 27th, 2005 at 1:48 pm
Cerpin_Taxt Says:
Hello, I am Brent Battle, the person who wrote the above article. Alot of people gave me criticism and praise, but mostly for the Gary Webb suicide. I had family members of Gary Webb E-mail me saying they are fully convinced Gary Webb commited suicide. They said after being fired from the San Jose Mercury News, no other paper would hire him and most recently his wife divorced him. Then an LA Times article was sent my way with an explanation for his suicide which included quotes from friends and pictures of his physical condition from being fired to his last years by himself.
However, Webb investigated government organizations smuggling illegal drugs into America and the evidence is pointing in the direction Webb was correct. That’s why in the original article I wrote about Webb’s death back in January had the quote where Webb said he was willing to take his side of the story to the grave because he felt so sure his investigations were the truth. I’m still unsure as to what actually happened and it will probably be one of those things where we’ll never truly know until all CIA and FBI records from 2004 are de-classified.
As for HST and Margie Schroedinger, I think it is interesting how these two people claimed to have “hard evidence” damaging to the Bush administration and now they have disappeared along with their stories.
Posted on June 29th, 2005 at 8:15 pm
Cerpin_Taxt Says:
also, the film “The American Drug War” is by Kevin Booth, a close friend and camera man for Alex Jones recent films “American Dictators” and “Martial Law: Rise of the Police State”. Booth’s personal Web site is http://www.sacredcow.com….
If you have any questions about anything else I’ve stated, or any questions in general, I will return to answer them some time in the future.
Posted on June 29th, 2005 at 8:19 pm
Jacob Says:
Ok listen folks, I don’t usually reply to many things but this is getting too much for me. Hunter S. Thompson was assassinated. It’s not hard to believe, alot of you just don’t want to. I’m not going to throw my own facts down your throat because you need to do the research yourself. Look at more than one webpage. This has been a good forum because both point of views are provided. Obviously the one that he shot himself is clearly fabricated when you bring in all the other factors about his mood, what he was working on… etc etc.
For those of you too stupid to search for the real truth, God gave you eyes. F*****g OPEN THEM… most things aren’t as they seem.
Posted on November 24th, 2005 at 9:59 am
malone Says:
Thomson was no suicide. to even entertain the idea dishonors the memory of a brave and good (though weird) man.
Posted on May 20th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
devilspharmacy Says:
Hunter always followed the odds:
Suicide 500 - 1 : Weak out of the gate. The favorite of affluent
spectators & Washington greedheads.
Murder 3-2 : Numerous victories under its handlers ,
always where the smart money goes.
The Bush royalty will not step down like Nixon did.
Ask Jann Wenner about CIA Lifer John O’Neill’s last job as head of security for Larry Silverstien. John caught the last plane out of town on the evening of 9-11-2001, he was carrying an issue of Rolling Stone, small traces of explosives are said to have been left on one of its numerous subscription cards.
Posted on May 31st, 2006 at 9:21 pm
Robert Jones Says:
One of the interesting things is that the story changed about how he was killed. This is usually the case of some shenanigans, for example with Al-Zakari. Get your story straight people. It was Scott who set it best, something like “what a web of lies we create when at first we try to deceive.”
Original vs. new story:
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/hunter_s_thompson_suicided_for_911_story.htm
More journalistic persecution. The right proclaims values, yet their actions include whoring and other deadly sins. Sometimes it seems we are in the last days of the Roman Empire (the Enron toga party quite fitting). Who plays Nero - Bush, Rove, Cheney?
“Homosexual prostitution Inquiry ensnares VIP’s with Reagan, Bush. Call boys took midnight tour of White House”
http://blogmark.mg.co.za/index.php?q=node/495
Posted on June 13th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
devilspharmacy Says:
This is not about the “right”. This is about suppression by means of murder.
Hunter was going to publish evidence that went beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the World Trade Centers, collapsed from demolition charges on 9-11-2001.
Homosexual prostitution, however valid, serves only to divert our attention.
WE HAVE MISLED OURSELVES ABOUT MAN …AND HOW MUCH GREATNESS CAN BE FOUND AMONG THEM.
WE HAVE BECOME SO ACCUSTOMED TO OUR ILLUSIONS, THAT WE MISTAKE THEM FOR REALITY.
Posted on June 20th, 2006 at 6:10 pm
Psykotix Says:
If any of you ever gets the chance to watch “Loose Change 2nd Edition”, I highly recommend doing so. (Can watch the whole movie in google video’s). Straight up facts all leading towards just how far the government is willing to go, and how far Hunter S. Thompson went to remain one of the true patriots of this country.
I am not declaring that you will believe it word for word, but I honestly believe you can NOT watch the whole movie without ending up with even the slightest bit of self-questioning, intrigue, or even anger over the crimes committed on 9/11.
America is slowly making itself combat present world-wide, this is turning into the dawn or fall of a new empire.
Posted on April 30th, 2007 at 9:23 am
Matt Pierce Says:
I have looked into this myself as of late. I have dug through a number of websites and watched a few things reguarding his death and have come to the only reasonable conclusion: he was murdered. Most of my own views have already been stated, but I do concur, and I pray that we’ll know one day.
Posted on December 16th, 2007 at 7:15 am
CactusFace Says:
I personally belive more should be done to investigate and bring this question to the surface. I would hate for his murder, or suicide to be mislabeled in even one persons mind. How do you handle a fascist group bent on power.? You attack them with words. How do you counterattack? You murder them and if your good you dont get the direct blame yet your enemies take notice and heed warning.
Posted on December 20th, 2007 at 2:16 am