[coconutt2000]

Clueless. A couple of military guys got into multiple fatality accident on the freeway here in Hawaii. The father was interviewed and he claimed his son would never do anything so reckless that would endanger the lives of others.

As it turns out, the accident was caused by road racing under the influence of alcohol. This man's son was driving one of the vehicles.

The time they left the bar and the time of the accident confirm that they indeed were speeding... No other way to cover that distance in such a short amount of time.

[My Right Foot]

Man, the D.U. is all over the map on this one.

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Straight Shooter

"Gads, so many things to remember. Microbiology department. Why do my antenna go up at that?"

jobycom(my emphasis)

Not really a conspiracy theory, just one of those possibilities you wonder about. The copilot, Michael Guess, called his mother just before the flight. He told her, according to her (and this was published in mainstream papers) "I love you, Mom. Remember that, no matter what happens." She said this to a reporter, and then she added "And that's all I'm saying about it." It sounded like she thought something was up.

So throw in the old suicide/mafia scenario. Michael Guess gets a quick visit from a couple of guys. They throw down a picture of his mother, and a couple of other family members, at their houses. They say "If your plane lands, all of these people die. And then you die. Obviously, if you tell anyone, you die, and we have enough people to make sure no one believes you anyway."

I had a friend who was busted for laundering money for an organized crime mob. He ran a business that they used, so he wasn't really part of the mob, but he was guilty of doing business with them. Anyway, he had served his time, and he worked with me doing something else. He had this usual schtick of adding "But I can't talk about that" to the end of a statement, as a joke. "You'd be surprised what you can do with chopsticks...But I can't talk about that." or "I used to work for the CIA, but I can't talk about that." You always knew he was joking when he said these thinks.

So one evening at work we were chatting about political assassinations. I mentioned that I thought Oswald shot JFK, and he agreed. He said something like "When they want to assassinate someone, they do it so no one knows. Like this one Congressman who was investigating drug smuggling, and he was getting too close. So they kidnapped the family of his pilot and told the pilot "If you don't crash this plane with the Congressman in it, your whole family dies." So he crashed the plane." He had started talking, not really paying attention to his own story, until I interrupted. "You mean Larkin Smith?" He was Congressman in my old district in Gulfport, and was a lesser known Rep who had died during his first or second term.

My friend had been carried away with his story, and we were working, so he wasn't focused on it, but as soon as I said the name his head snapped up like someone threw water on him. His eyes widened, and he literally went pale, and he stared at me, like he hadn't expected me to know that. "How do you know that?" I asked, doubting him. "I really can't talk about that," he said, and he had the most serious look I'd ever seen him have.

Anyway, he was probably full of it, but it was strange crash. Witnesses said the plane had dipped during takeoff, and then recovered, and the pilot hadn't said anything about it to the control tower (there may not have been one, it was a small airport). Later he crashed into some trees near the landing airport, and last I heard, they had no idea why. They blamed it on pilot error. This Congressman had taken over Trent Lott's district when Lott became Senator. He had become a local celebrity by busting his sheriff (he was the deputy sheriff) for drug smuggling. he had reported the sheriff, and there was a big FBI sting that caught him as he was greeting a plane that had landed full of drugs just north of Bay St. Louis. Big story where I was at the time. Later, conspiracy folk linked this airfield and the old sheriff, and thus Larken Smith to the whole Mena, Arkansas, CIA drug smuggling theory. And it was drug mob that my friend had been busted with.

I still think he was full of it, though I keep that theory open. I keep the same theory about Wellstone open. The crash makes no sense, even the way the FAA reports it. I believe that Carnahan's crash, and JFK Jr' crash, were just crashes. And I believe tha Oswald shot JFK, and I don't believe Sirhan was programmed by CIA hypnotists. I don't believe in many conspiracies. But I have my doubts about Wellstone's crash. And Smith's. I knew Smith's story before the crash, and everyone always suspected someone would get him because of what he was doing. So the crash seemed more mysterious.

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