We’re Seth Rich’s parents. Stop politicizing our son’s murder (His Parents Write WaPo Opinion Piece)

Washington Post ^ | 05/24/2017 | By Mary Rich and Joel Rich

[SeekAndFind]

NOTE: The writers are the parents of Seth Rich, who was killed in the District in 2016.

Imagine living in a nightmare that you can never wake up from. Imagine having to face every single day knowing that your son was murdered. Imagine you have no answers — that no one has been brought to justice and there are few clues leading to the killer or killers. Imagine that every single day, with every phone call you hope that it’s the police, calling to tell you that there has been a break in the case.

Imagine that instead, every call that comes in is a reporter asking what you think of a series of lies or conspiracies about the death. That nightmare is what our family goes through every day.

Our beloved son Seth Rich was gunned down in the early hours of July 10, 2016, in his Washington, D.C., neighborhood of Bloomingdale. On the day he was murdered, Seth was excited about a new job he had been offered on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Seth had dedicated his life to public service, and he told us that he wanted to work on the campaign’s effort to expand voter participation because he loved our country dearly and believed deeply in the promise of democratic engagement. Seth had been walking around, calling friends, family and his girlfriend, pondering the broader picture of what the job change would mean. He wondered how he would pick up and move to New York City for four months, the strain that might put on his relationships, and how it would all affect the life he had built for himself in Washington.

The circumstances of what happened next are still unclear.

[alstewartfan]

Who wrote this letter for Seth’s parents?

[TigerClaws]

18? Wow.

Have we seen one image of the perps? Or persons or vehicles of interest? Middle of the night so there wouldn’t be many.

A Gateway Pundit report said the footage from the officers’ body cams is missing.

[justa-hairyape]

We live in a world that is dieing physically because of these deep staters. Universities and the media are being used to cover the crimes of the deep state.

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[Axenolith]

Sorry, if your kid is in essentially in the 3rd or 4th orbital shell from the seat of power of western civilization and gets whacked suspiciously it’s going to be poked and probed like a chipped tooth and y’all can either join in or deal with it.

[Maverick68]

Dear Rich family:
Nope, your son was a public figure whose murder MAY have implications that would reveal one of the single greatest scandals in American Political history.

IF INDEED he were murdered at the orders of someone in the Democrat Party and it can be proven, it changes the course of History.

IF INDEED we find proof that a Political Party would murder someone who is a problem/threat to their power-grab, WE THE PEOPLE have the right to know about such an incredibly dangerous, treasonous group of people embedded in our government and we have the RIGHT to drag them to the Public Square and rid the world of them.

[mac_truck]

Someone should do a data dive to tabulate how many robbery victims are shot but not robbed, and of that group how many were shot in the back.

[baltimorepoet]

Libtards abort their own children. Hillary only had Chelsea because it would make it more likely for the Clintons to get ahead politically.

Seth Rich’s parents are probably just like that libtard father of the woman killed by an illegal alien in San Francisco. The cause is more important than their children.

[apocalypto]

What disgusting parents! Their reaction is not normal. Rarely do parents want the murder of their child go unsolved.

I have no idea why Seth Rich's parents' reaction is this callous. If they were frightened or were relieved their son was killed, wouldn't they just be silent?

Who would want to stop focus on the case? Obviously the killer or killers or those who benefit from the killers not getting caught.

[apocalypto]

What disgusting parents! Their reaction is not normal. Rarely do parents want the murder of their child go unsolved.

I have no idea why Seth Rich's parents' reaction is this callous. If they were frightened or were relieved their son was killed, wouldn't they just be silent?

Who would want to stop focus on the case? Obviously the killer or killers or those who benefit from the killers not getting caught.

[sarge83]

DNC news release. No one except hannity is chasing this and the Murdoch loons have stopped that.

[jpl]

They got an offer they couldn’t refuse: either go along with the official line or end up like their son.

[wardaddy]

The Rich family are very rich and prominent in liberal Jewish and liberal Democrat circles in Nebraska

They are doing what’s expected of them because I guess the cause is more important than who killed their kid

I’m sorry I don’t think they got paid off

I don’t think they would do this for money but rather for ideology

They want progressive secular humanism to control America

It’s what nearly all progressives want

[Faith Presses On]

Yes it’s like it came straight from PoliticsUSA, Media Matters, or the Center for American Progress, and probably did come from a source like that. It’s so polished, especially with the “imagine” opening that’s so common these days, that no matter the situation or what’s at stake, one is to give in to the desires of people because of their legitimate and oftentimes illegitimate anguish.

They have legitimate anguish, but the case is far bigger than him being just their son and there being nothing suspicious about it. He took a job with a high level of responsibility in the DNC. This involves accusations against the Trump administration that they and Trump himself colluded with Russia to tamper with the election, and the Russia charge has also been used against Trump’s mandate as the election’s winner, and if it is a false narrative, it is also just damaging to our society.

If Seth Rich was the Wikileaks source, then the Russia narrative is shown to be false. There is enough to investigate Rich’s death as possibly connected to the DNC email leak, and since Trump and his administration are under accusation for it, they have a right to have that avenue explored, just like someone in an ordinary case in court would.

[Let's Roll]

Apparently their tardness is so strong, they would rather have it than the truth.

[Faith Presses On]

The media’s part in the whole Russia thing seems to closely resemble what they did in the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman and Ahmed “clock boy” Mohamed cases. Rush to judgment to push a narrative and then go to war on facts that undermine the narrative.

[Mase]

Later...

[Faith Presses On]

> This is the sort of statement that you’d typically see on the desk in front of a POW as a soldier stands by with a rifle to his head.

> These people appear to be literal hostages to the Clinton mafia, being held in broad daylight.

That is what it seems like. Apparently the mafia didn’t go away but just moved up in the world.

[Faith Presses On]

It is. It’s larger than him and his family. There’s talk of impeaching the President over Russia and I believe having criminal investigations yet the DNC didn’t allow the FBI to examine their servers and there is a lot of circumstantial evidence that Rich was the leaker, not Russia.

I sympathize with his parents, but as others have said, I’m also not convinced that they aren’t saying this under duress. It seems likely. And in that case, there would not be many places for them to turn to for help, except perhaps other countries.

[jazzlite]

WOW! If there ever was a case ripe for a cover up, this might be it.