"Here is what we know for sure about Ron Brown's last days:
To protect his son Michael from prison, Ron Brown threatened to expose the White House's yet unrevealed Asian fund-raising scheme, in which Brown played a major role. Just weeks before his death, Brown started going to church for the first time in his life. He was scared for his life and that of his confidante Hill.
The Croatian government insisted on a Dubrovnik stop an unprecedented 36 hours before Brown's scheduled landing. The Air Force called Brown's pilot's nearly two-mile deviation into a Croatian hillside "inexplicable." No aircraft had ever drifted inland before at that airport. The AWACS data suggests sabotage of the ground-based navigation system, a line of inquiry that the Air Force was not allowed to pursue.
For the first time ever on friendly soil, the White House ordered the Air Force to skip the "safety" phase of the investigation and move directly to the "accident" phase. There would be no consideration other than accident, even though this airport was near the Bosnian border and in a potential hot-fire zone.
Three days after the crash and two days before his scheduled interview by the Air Force, the Croatian responsible for the airport's navigation system was found with a bullet hole in his chest. A day later, every pathologist who viewed Brown's body concluded that his head wound, at the very least, looked like a bullet hole. In a decision that reached the White House, there would be no autopsy. The Brown family was not informed. Nor was there any forensic testing or a search for an exit wound. The head x-rays, that showed a possible "lead snowstorm" were destroyed. Officially, they were lost.
The three Armed Forces pathologists and the forensic photographer who blew the whistle on this case had their careers destroyed. In silencing these dissidents, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology brass assured the public that Brown died of "multiple blunt force injuries" like the others. The death certificate says otherwise. It notes that Brown died of "blunt force injuries to the head." He was the only one of the 35 victims to have a reported head wound.
The Croatian neo-fascist strongman, Franjo Tudjman, who had feared a trip to the Hague as a war criminal, ended up a week after the election at the Walter Reed Army Hospital to have his cancer treated. His son, Miroslav, investigated the death of the navigation chief and ruled it a suicide.
If this were not enough, Brown had gone to Croatia to broker a sweetheart deal between Tudjman and the Enron Corporation. The Enron execs took their own plane. All criminal charges against Michael Brown were dropped save for a campaign violation wrist slap. Today, incredibly, he is vice chairman of finance for the Democratic National Committee. To keep Nolanda Hill quiet, the Clinton Justice Department indicted and incarcerated her on tax charges.
Without an autopsy or a serious inquiry into the plane crash, there will be no closure on Ron Brown's death."
AG John Ashcroft is a gutless weanie fer refusing to hold the Clintonoids responsible fer their crimes...MUD
BW&BK: "Did 9/11 act an emotional catalyst for you writing this album?"
JS: "Yeah, I feel pretty confident of that. My love of history has been with me since I was old enough to read, and my passion for my country and how I feel about the ideals that our founding fathers put into place. What we stand for, as a nation, are things I've always been a very strong believer in. That's nothing new. We've kind of tinkered with it in the past with things like '1776' (note: off of Something Wicked This Way Comes) and 'Ghost Of Freedom' from Horror Show which was dedicated to the veterans. I think to some extent 9/11 had an affect on me as a writer, as an American. I did go through some pretty heavy questioning: I wondered whether I wanted to carry on with this or not. Honestly, if I was just a guitar player, I would not do this. The music business and the losers surrounding it are not fulfilling or gratifying. The only thing that is gratifying is that I'm a song-writer. Because the rest of it can really take a flying fucking leap. I'm just being honest, that's how I feel. There's so much bullshit you have to put up with to be a song-writer. I have to put up with so much shit just to make that happen. There are many times I wonder, 'Is this really worth it?' But I still do it because, let's face it, I can't dance. What else am I going to do? Anyway, when 9/11 happened I was questioning all that stuff. Even during the Horror Show process I knew that was not our best record. And that is was missing something. I was going through a lot of stuff personally and I was just was not as connected as I should have been. I wasn't as intensely passionate about the subject matter that I was writing about. And I take full responsibility for that because it was my idea. And I knew with this record we would have to destroy Horror Show. Because if we put out another Horror Show, then I think it would be the beginning of the end. That was one thing I knew from the time we started mixing the record, that Horror Show was not going to be a fan favorite. I knew way back then that the next one -- whenever it would come -- would have to beat the hell of it. Things were already going through my mind before 9/11 happened. The idea that I was going to have to do something passionate crossed my mind. If you look at the lyrical content and the themes of every Iced Earth song and album, it's all dark fantasy stuff, the sci-fi stuff, the anti-organized religion material. It's pretty much been the same type of stuff for all the records. And I needed to go somewhere else with it. I thought about it, and I said, 'What am I really passionate about in my life? Besides being pissed off at the world and religion and every else. What do I really dig? What do I feel strongly about?' So, my love of history is something that I'm now sharing with people. Before it was a very private thing. Only people really close to me knew how into this stuff I am."
FReegards...MUD
Sorry Mud, Brown got exactly what he deserved when he made the decision to get in bed with the dangerous criminal enterprise a.ka the Democrat Party.
*Period*.
Methinks Brown's death -- & that of all the many others we've noted over Clintigula's reign of terror -- shouldn't be forgotten, ever.
What's more, we all should take advantage of each & every opportunity to remind all the people we come into contact with of what happened under those filthy murders, too.
The stench of of their murdering ways will cling & follow the 'Rats for a very long time, if we see to it.
Brown's death (& those of all the others) will serve quite nicely as a warning to people who think it cannot happen to them, that they can make a Faustian deal & come away unscathed, so much the same as "Heads on pikes" did in days past those UNsolved murders can & will speak louder than any criminal indictment *or* corrupt(ed) jury ever could.
A very real warning to all what might very likely happen to them if they make the same mistake of trusting an American Liberal-Socialist party who assumed the role, & tactics, of the mafia/organized crime at least a decade & a half ago.
Ashcroft's completely clean on these murders, kiddo.
...OK?