Posted on 02/15/2016 10:33:23 AM PST by pboyington
According to the official story, Judge Antonin Scalia was found dead in his bed this weekend while a guest at the Cibolo Creek Ranch in West Texas.
A first-time guest to the Cibolo Creek Creek Ranch, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was animated and engaged during dinner Friday night, as one of three dozen invitees to an event that had nothing to do with law or politics, according to the ranch owner.
Just hours later, he would be found dead of “apparent natural causes,†which media outlets were reporting Sunday was a heart attack.
“He was seated near me and I had a chance to observe him. He was very entertaining. But about 9 p.m. he said, ‘it’s been a long day and a long week, I want to get some sleep,†recalled Houston businessman John Poindexter, who owns the 30,000-acre luxury ranch.
When Poindexter tried to awaken Scalia about 8:30 the next morning, the judge’s door was locked and he did not answer. Three hours later, Poindexter returned after an outing, with a friend of Scalia who had come from Washington with him.
We discovered the judge in bed, a pillow over his head. His bed clothes were unwrinkled,†said Poindexter.
“He was lying very restfully. It looked like he had not quite awakened from a nap,†he said.
Scalia, 79, did not have a pulse and his body was cold, and after consulting with a doctor at a hospital in Alpine, Poindexter concluded resuscitation would have been futile. He then contacted federal authorities, at first encountering a series of answering services because he was calling on a weekend.
The body of the Supreme Court justice was moved to an El Paso funeral home early Sunday. The body was driven from Marfa and arrived around 2:30 a.m. at Sunset Funeral Homes, according to spokesman Chris Lujan.
Lujan said the funeral home was chosen by family of the justice, and at the advice of a family friend.
Yet as details of Scalia’s sudden death trickled in Sunday, it appeared that the hours afterward were anything but orderly. The man known for his elegant legal opinions and profound intellect was found dead in his room at a hunting resort by the resort’s owner, who grew worried when Scalia didn’t appear at breakfast Saturday morning.
It then took hours for authorities in remote West Texas to find a justice of the peace, officials said Sunday. When they did, Presidio County Judge Cinderela Guevara pronounced Scalia dead of natural causes without seeing the body — which is permissible under Texas law — and without ordering an autopsy.
One of two other officials who were called but couldn’t get to Scalia’s body in time said that she would have made a different decision on the autopsy.
“If it had been me . . . I would want to know,†Juanita Bishop, a justice of the peace in Presidio, Tex., said in an interview Sunday of the chaotic hours after Scalia’s death.
Meanwhile, Guevara acknowledged that she pronounced Scalia dead by phone, without seeing his body. Instead, she spoke to law enforcement officials at the scene — who assured her “there were no signs of foul play†— and Scalia’s physician in Washington, who said that the 79-year-old justice suffered from a host of chronic conditions.
Guevara also rebutted a report by a Dallas TV station that quoted her as saying that Scalia had died of “myocardial infarction.†In an interview with The Washington Post, she said she meant only that his heart had stopped.
“It wasn’t a heart attack,†Guevara said. “He died of natural causes.â€
The circumstances surrounding Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia’s death are growing more suspicious by the minute.
What was the cause of Scalia’s death? Was it a heart attack or death by natural causes? No one seems to know. The story keeps changing.
How convenient…
Who dies with a pillow over their head?
Why wasn’t an autopsy performed? With no autopsy performed, henceforth his body has been embalmed, basically erasing any chances for the coroner to conduct efficient toxicology tests.
Judge Scalia was a defender of freedom, a defender of the Second Amendment and the Constitution. Scalia and Obama and powerful liberals greatly disagreed on issues like gun control and immigration.
Scalia was the tie breaking judge, the man who could push back any liberal policies being shoved through the court. With Scalia’s death, the Obama Administration or a future Hillary Clinton Administration has a green door to confiscate guns, flood the country with illegals and wreck the Constitution.
In the 1972 film the Godfather, Luca Brasi, Don Vito Corleone’s henchman was murdered by rival mobsters. Brasi’s bulletproof vest was sent to the Corleone family with a dead fish wrapped inside, a signal Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
The pillow over Scalia’s head wasn’t put there by a Hispanic maid.
The pillow over the head is a warning…
The same people who want you to believe Scalia died of a heart attack or natural causes are the same people who want you to believe that Hillary won the Iowa Caucuses with six coin tosses and the same people who want you to believe after fifty years that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin of President Kennedy.
Of course the MSM has reported on none of this. Even Fox News refuses to cover the strange occurrences in Texas. The Outnumbered girls this morning were more interested in the color of their pastel high heels, than the diabolical machinations of power in this country.
Joseph Goebbels once said that “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.â€
How many more lies can the American people accept as simple normality? It is high time for the slumbering American people to wake up and realize they are being lied to and used.
Clearly Judge Scalia died of natural causes just like John F. Kennedy did.
Nothing to see here folks, move on…
Uh huh…
Motives are not as high as you think. Any of his votes are lost. And we will never know. Any upset can come back to the court....under another application.
According to the Washington Post, the odd distinction between heart attack and natural causes was made by Justice of the Peace (Cinderela Guevara).
Here's the WP quote, with link following.
>> Guevara also rebutted a report by a Dallas TV station that quoted her as saying that Scalia had died of "myocardial infarction." In an interview with The Washington Post, she said she meant only that his heart had stopped.
"It wasn't a heart attack," Guevara said. "He died of natural causes." <<
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/texas-tv-station-scalia-died-of-a-heart-attack/2016/02/14/938e2170-d332-11e5-9823-02b905009f99_story.html
PILLOW ON HIS FACE. NOT ABOVE HIS HEAD. DRAW THAT PICTURE
They did not say on his face....
It’s a matter of semantics. They didn’t say above his head which denotes not on his face. Pillow over his head, everyone pretty much sees that as on his face. You can interpret it anyway you want.
That’s what I was thinking, but then he said his hands were folded across his chest.
He was 80 and heavy, and as a proud Italian, his diet likely wasn't vegan. Why do some people need to see conspiracies everywhere?
Well said. An autopsy would confirm/refute presence of fibers in oral/nasal passages. As well as any medication OD or foreign bodies.
“This is a family matter. I’m sure he had a will and his wife knows him like a book. “
And family members who know the decedent like a book also know when they’re being “advised” not to press for an autopsy. After all, medical evidence that would cause a departure from the current narrative could be so untidy...
“”””Good Lord, the conspiracy theory idiocy is tiring.”””””
I was 700 miles away... sleeping... I was not there... I did not find him... I was not a responder on the scene... I don’t work at the coroner’s office... I do not have his medical records... I was 700 miles away. But I read some stuff on the internet from my desk at work, so therefor I know exactly what happened.
Is that the kind of idiocy you mean?
I know a lot of really smart people who make some really bad lifestyle choices.
My point was the local media had the story, one of the biggest stories of the year, and the national media waited an hour to report it.
I have seen my wife lay under the pillow many times just from squirming. I remember thinking, that can’t be comfortable. But she did it all the time then acted like I was crazy when I asked her about it.
Yes, the Justice travels with Marshals that are there to keep him safe. Who decided to not put the marshals up at the ranch??? The ranch owner says it was because the Justice was so unassuming... But maybe the rancher himself suggested a great motel far away that they could enjoy themselves at... Who suggested it? Can we hear from one of the marshals?
Also, if the pillow were some sort of mafia sign that the Justice was “stifled,” maybe the crazy words of that Poindexter make more sense, how peaceful the Justice looks, painless, repose, all that sugary silence crap.
YOURE AND IDIOT.
Laundry soap?
99 9/19ths pure ...
Good grief!
Where do these people come from?
Heart attack IS a 'natural cause...'
Unless you are delivering a medical school lecture.
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