Posted on 02/16/2016 1:07:15 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Was Justice Scalia murdered? Forget "conspiracy theory." This is real.
Let's jump right in with quotes from the Washington Post, 2/15, Conspiracy theories swirl around the death of Antonin Scalia. The Post published extraordinary statements from the Facebook page of "William O. Ritchie, former head of criminal investigations for D.C. police":
"As a former homicide commander, I am stunned that no autopsy was ordered for Justice Scalia."
"You have a Supreme Court Justice who died, not in attendance of a physician. You have a non-homicide trained US Marshal tell the justice of peace that no foul play was observed. You have a justice of the peace pronounce death while not being on the scene and without any medical training opining that the justice died of a heart attack. What medical proof exists of a myocardial Infarction? Why not a cerebral hemorrhage?"
"How can the Marshal say, without a thorough post mortem, that he was not injected with an illegal substance that would simulate a heart attack..."
(Excerpt) Read more at sott.net ...
All valid question in my opinion.
This is getting silly. I hope that we don’t have many constituent kooks getting into this tin foil hat nonsense.
“This is not a conspiracy theory, this is real”... said every conspiracy theorist ever.
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The man was nearly 80 years old and had some heart issues.
My father was 75 with similar heart issues. He walked across the parking lot doing his “happy walk”, got halfway into the car, turned to my mom and said “Thank-—” and dropped dead.
Scalia died in his sleep. There is no “there” there.
With a public official, the autopsy should be automatic. The squealing about it should raise flags.
Some people love to be paranoid. Scalia’s successor is the real issue here.
I remember when Agent Orange was a “conspiracy theory.”
How long before Secret Service details are ordered for all Supreme Court Justices?
I'm not saying there is anything nefarious going on here but who better to send to an early demise but one who already is perceived as to having one foot in the grave?
“Did the US Marshal smell his breath for any unusual odor that might suggest poisoning?”
Being that Justice Scalia was dead, I doubt any one smelled his breath.
When this news broke, I posted that Gov Abbott should send in the Texas Rangers to oversee things. Federal marshals and FBI agents are likely to be controlled by Baraqqi partisans.
Unfortunately that didn’t happen.
But I realize sometimes old guys just croak.
These are very good questions...
Read more sites than right wing conspiracy blogs and you may just find the answer to your question.
Ask yourself what someone’s medical doctor—a personal doctor who met with the decedent last week, and reviewed an MRI of the heat, lungs, and kidney. A decedent who had diabetes, was overweight, had well progressed heart disease, and other “chronic” illnesses for an overweight man in a stress job—still actively working at 79.
I understand the frustration associated with the folks not following what is perceived to be “standard operating procedures.” I know in my town, they would have dispatched a paramedic who would have called it if the patient was cold, stiff and blue. I know that if the death was unattended and “special” an ME would be dispatched.
But this is in an area where people die alone all of the time due to circumstances. The first thought is to find out if the person was sick...was the death unexpected? In most cases a call to the personal doctor would result in a comment such as, “I saw him last week, and he was in the final stages of [fill in the blank]. No obvious signs of trauma or other indications of foul play?
The reason for this process in those types of situations is that grandpa shouldn’t have to lay around all day in his death bed in Texas heat. Instead of wasting the resources of sending a paramedic to a dead person, you send the undertaker.
I understand all of the conspiracy stuff. But, if you think of this critically, in the context in which it happened, there is nothing abnormal about it. And it follows the wishes of the family.
When you or I die, we stop being important to our work or our customers. We, in a physician sense, are only important to our families. Their wishes are paramount.
Seems perfectly reasonable to do an autopsy on a man of great prominence when he dies suddenly alone overnight. No conspiracy theory needed. Just common sense. The balance of power of the entire nation is impacted from this event for decades to come.
And the government had no way to listen in on your conversations.
Oh and Anna Nicole Married for Money!
I am not trying to be argumentative, but trying to think this through.
What difference would an autopsy make? The worst case: He was murdered.
Then what. Unless Obama personally murdered him (unlikely) it makes no difference to the process.
Sure, politically it would be an outrage. But that doesn’t change the fact that Obama can nominate and the Senate does not have to consent.
Nothing changes. He is still dead. The process continues to move around. The sun comes up tomorrow.
I don’t think he was murdered. He was 79, had health issues and had been to doctors fairly recently.
But the no autopsy thing is extremely odd.
They always do an autopsy when someone dies who is not under a doctor’s care.
At least that’s what I thought.
Color me surprised that he did not have a security detail.
I thought that was standard for these guys. Unless they choose not to have it.
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