Posted on 05/01/2014 1:48:39 PM PDT by mgist
The authorities in the Seychelles said Tuesday that they had determined that a combination of heroin and alcohol was responsible for the deaths of two former members of the Navy SEALs working as guards on board a container ship in February. The two, Jeffrey Reynolds and Mark Kennedy, in their 40s, were found dead in a cabin aboard the Maersk Alabama, the cargo ship that became famous in 2009 after Somali pirates attacked it and took the captain hostage. After autopsies determined the men had died of respiratory failure and possible heart attacks, officials in the Seychelles, a small Indian Ocean nation, requested further analysis of stomach contents and blood samples in Mauritius. Those tests “revealed no trace of any poison, thus ruling out foul play,” the police in the Seychelles said Tuesday. A local pathologist then concluded that Mr. Reynolds’s and Mr. Kennedy’s heart failures “had been as a result of a combination of heroin and alcohol consumption,” ......Investigators found pills, syringes and a brown powder that later proved to be heroin in the cabin. The Seychelles, an archipelago about 1,000 miles east of Kenya, has one of the world’s highest rates of injectable drug use, according to the United Nations. The earlier attack on the Maersk Alabama, which became the basis of the Oscar-nominated film “Captain Phillips,” was one of several high-profile episodes that led shipping companies to place armed security guards like Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Kennedy on their vessels. The two former SEAL members worked for the Trident Group, a maritime security company in Virginia Beach. The company president said that contractors were required to submit to extensive drug screening every two years and that both men had passed their tests within the last 18 months.
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That's a temporary job for a young man, not a regular job for a normal, married man in his 40s.
Guys with those skills and clean records can get pretty plum security assignments on land in fancy cities for high rollers.
I'll also say this: for every actual SEAL there are maybe 50 guys pretending to be former SEALs.
Your example is three men holding down one woman. How many would it take to hold down two SEALs?
I believe nothing I read in the newspapers. Nothing on tv either because I don’t have a television.
I’d take a Navy seal any day over any random person on the street. They were protecting something, obviously. I’d need more proof to begin to believe that they were drug addicts.
The media said Marily Monroe died of a drug overdose. Maybe she did. But did *she* take the drugs or were they administered to her. Similarly, did these guys take the drugs or were they administered after they died.
That statement is either a BIG LIE, or a naive comment.
The fact that the Orwellian media pretends that this is the new normal, and people are so ignorant, makes me even more certain that this has been planned all along. What America isn’t understanding is that this is social engineering at it’s finest. Soros, who laundered money for the cartels, has been pushing drug legalization, including heroin since the 90’s. http://www.aim.org/special-report/the-hidden-soros-agenda-drugs-money-the-media-and-political-power/
It is Soros’ $Billions in influence peddling, and lobbying, that have led people to believe that the war on drugs was useless. Bottom line, this crap wasn’t around when I was growing up in the drug capital of the world -Miami, in the 80’s and 90’s. There was cocaine, and since there really was a war on drugs, it was too expensive for curious kids.
What has gone on since the 90’s is BS. Big Pharma is legally destroying lives with “legal” opiates in the deceptive form of medicinal pills, and creating a nation of addicts. Politicians are addicted to the endless campaign cash in the form of Pharma and Wall Street lobbying.
This is what destroyed China. Afghanistan now has unprecedented amounts of opium production, as does China, Iran, and Pakistan. Why is it getting into this country so easily?
Drug legalization didn’t just happen miraculously with Obama. This was planned all along, and like everything else in our corrupted Orwellian nation. It was made to look like came out of citizens activism and voting. While it was actually all bought and paid by Wall Street, Soros, et al, and the cartels they launder money for
There was no ship, no SEALs, no drugs.
It's all just a made-up story that never happened.
Unfortunately - or fortunately - you’ve never been interviewed by the media and then seen what was reported in the media.
Go ahead, believe that a Seal is a druggie.
That is not her point. Her point is that everything is twisted into White House talking points and the media obediently performs.
Look at Benghazi, the white house claimed it was all about an offensive video and the media carried the story hook line and sinker.
After it was apparently wrong, there was no outrage or apologies to the American public. The only aologies were in defense of the White House.
The US media is not a reliable source of investigative journalism. Does that really surprise you????
I also have to say that Chavez had his gargoyles all over the internet infiltrating every group that showed potential dissent to either influence opinion and /or inform. Soros and various “think tanks” have the same tactics in place, and Freerepublic would be prime target for these deceptive creatures. May God have mercy on them.
Yes me too. In fact I find it impossible to believe.
SEALS are risk takers otherwise they wouldn’t be SEALS. I know cause I am also a risk taker. Risk takers do a lot of things that other people would not, drug takers are also risk takers, again I know.
For two to OD at the same time strikes me as unlikely but not unheard of. But for two SEALS to OD at the same time strikes me as strange. People trained in situational awareness are much less likely to totally lose control as you do when doing drugs and drinking. Only way I can see it happening is a bet between them and that seems awfully far fetched. Anyway it smells to me.
Others agree, vowing not to buy into this "conspiracy."
I automatically doubt anything in part or whole that comes from the MSM and think anyone who believes it wholesale and considers being highly skeptical of it as equal to seeing "conspiracies" everywhere, is either living in a dream world or not paying attention.
The "news" as it is reported in mainstream sources is, in every way, manipulated. It misrepresents reality. Sometimes it downright lies and covers-up. "Conspiracy" is beside the point, a red herring. The truth is that the national news media is at best half trustworthy.
Just sayin'.
Put some drugs in their food or spike their water to get them helpless and the rest is history. It is done all the time. If they let their guard down just a bit and some cabin boy was on the take...
By the time the die the original drugs are out of system. Not to mention an autopsy (blood work) done overseas, yeah right. Once we got them home it would be covered up or Nobama would have a revolt on his hands, not just in the military, but with the citizenry wanting blood for blood. We can’t have the US really taking it to his queer, goat screwing, muslim friends, could we?
So do you believe Benghazi happened because of a video?
"Syllogism" 1:
It is impossible for a Navy SEAL to ever take illegal drugs.
These Navy SEALs had drugs in their systems.
Therefore, some as yet unidentified team of secret ninjas must have drugged them.
"Syllogism" 2:
Anything bad that happens in the world is caused either by Barack Obama or George Soros.
Two US veterans died.
Therefore, their deaths must have somehow been caused by either Barack Obama or George Soros.
Why, O conspiracy theorists, were these men targeted?
Oh, you don't know? We should just trust you that it was for some nefarious purpose?
I like RC's analysis here:
By the time the die the original drugs are out of system.
See? They were given one set of drugs. Then, after they succumbed to the first set, the plotters gave them a second set of drugs and - with a level of scientific accuracy unknown to any medical professional in the world - were able to calculate exactly how long it would take two different men to metabolize two different doses of drugs. What is especially miraculous here is that the first set of drugs was administered through water or food, so they had to just guess how much of the first set of drugs were consumed.
Ah, the omniscience of the Illuminati.
Not to mention an autopsy (blood work) done overseas, yeah right.
All those British and French millionaires who retire to Mauritius probably build their own hospitals on their individual properties in case they have a medical emergency, right? Or maybe they all keep private planes ready so they can take a quick 7 hour flight to a European hospital in a pinch? There's no way a Mauritian hospital could ever master the fine art of taking blood samples.
Once we got them home it would be covered up or Nobama would have a revolt on his hands
Hey remember that time America had a bloody coup because two security guards OD'd on a foreign ship? Neither do I.
not just in the military, but with the citizenry wanting blood for blood
You have to admit that RC has a rich fantasy life. So far there have been zero consequences for Benghazi - an actual scandal where US active duty personnel and an ambassador were abandoned and left to be killed in combat. But a couple of guys die partying on a foreign ship, that'll change everything.
“You have to admit that RC has a rich fantasy life. So far there have been zero consequences for Benghazi - an actual scandal where US active duty personnel and an ambassador were abandoned and left to be killed in combat. But a couple of guys die partying on a foreign ship, that’ll change everything.”
It is all about the spin to the unwashed masses.
What connection is there between the Maersk Alabama, Benghazi, and two dead former US Navy SEALS working for a company in Virginia Beach?
It's quite obvious that Benghazi happened because it has always been an Al-Qaeda objective to attack US embassies.
The lies the administration tells to cover up its incompetence are one thing.
It is another thing to say that the administration somehow deliberately assassinated two random US veterans for no discernible purpose of any kind.
Do you really think two junkies dying after a night of partying is the same thing as an embassy being overrun with terrorist assassins?
Really?
Oh ok. If you say so.
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