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Scalia: More Questions Than Answers

I was going to leave this report alone….I thought there would be enough crap flowing through the blogosphere that I would just be a fart in the wind…..the media is laser focused on who the replacement will be than to worry about anything else……..and then I read a piece that asks all kinds of questions about the death of a judge…..

Antonin Scalia’s death—how it was handled, who made what decisions, and why—is appearing murkier than recent articles suggest. A former top homicide official even says “there is something fishy going on” with the Supreme Court Justice’s demise. To sum up:

  • Presidio County Judge Cinderela Guevara, who pronounced Scalia’s death a likely heart attack, now says she only meant his heart stopped when he died, the Washington Post reports. “It wasn’t a heart attack,” Guevara says. “He died of natural causes.” She had declared Scalia’s death “natural” without seeing his body (apparently legal in Texas) or demanding an autopsy. She had talked to a US Marshal at the scene and Scalia’s doctor before deciding.
  • She tells the AP that Scalia’s doctor—Rear Adm. Brian P. Monahan, who is attending physician for the Supreme Court and Congress—said Scalia had a history of high blood pressure and heart trouble, and wasn’t strong enough to have shoulder surgery for a recent injury.
  • If that’s true, Scalia hid it well: John Poindexter, who owns the Cibolo Creek Ranch where Scalia was visiting when he died, says the Supreme Court Justice behaved normally Friday and joined a quail hunt as an observer, the New York Times reports. “He seemed in good spirits,” Poindexter tells the LA Times. Scalia was also traveling without a security detail of US Marshals.
  • West Texas authorities spent hours seeking a justice of the peace to pronounce on Scalia’s death. Juanita Bishop, a justice of the peace in Presidio, Tex., didn’t get there in time but suggests she would have wanted an autopsy. “If it had been me . . . I would want to know,” she says.
  • A former head of criminal investigations for DC police agrees, the Dallas Morning News reports. “As a former homicide commander, I am stunned that no autopsy was ordered for Justice Scalia,” writes William Ritchie in a Facebook post. “You have a non-homicide trained US Marshal tell the justice of peace that no foul play was observed. … How can the Marshal say, without a thorough post mortem, that he was not injected with an illegal substance that would simulate a heart attack…”
  • Poindexter found Scalia’s body in a peaceful position Saturday after checking on the apparent late sleeper: “It was just like he was taking a nap,” Poindexter days. “He just went to sleep and didn’t wake up.”
  • Reporters weren’t allowed into Scalia’s impressive suite, “El Presidente,” after he died, but looked in the window and saw a bed that appeared slept in. Poindexter says he found a water bottle and a map of the ranch property by the bed.

See how Scalia’s death could affect six big cases.

I admit it…I am a sucker for a good mystery…..and this one has conspiracy written all over it…..but then ask….for whom will this be a big deal?  Or who would benefit the most without Scalia on the Bench?

Does anyone else smell a story here?

20 thoughts on “Scalia: More Questions Than Answers”

  1. Wasn’t Julia Roberts in this movie?…. I believe it sounds like the same story…. Look to whomever is involved in the six cases in which he might have made a difference… then see who makes the most money from that…

    If there’s a conspiracy, there is where you’ll find it…

    gigoid, the dubious

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  3. Anything involving former Iran-Contra criminal and now operative for Big Brother, John Poindexter, is automatically ULTRA-SUSPICIOUS.

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  4. We will be reading all kinds of conspiracy angles about the death of the Justice (Scalia) for many years to come because it provides excellent fodder for all kinds of conspiracies …. in the genre that produced all the conspiracy theories about The Kennedy Assassination, The Attacks on The World Trade Centers on 9/11 and all the other nutwad conspiracy theories out there. As time goes on — regardless of any “Official” reports that will be issued, the conspiracy nuts will play this one for the last crumb of attention or the last dollar that talking about it can generate …. I think you can take that to the bank! — I think that is a given! Might just as well get used to the idea.

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      3. It says to me that “The Public” has become more “Public” than anything else and that as warm place to defecate, something to get high on and someone to share a bed with is now more important to more people than any other considerations here in the overly-pampered land of abundance, plenty and freedom to be absolute fools.

      4. I sounds like my analysis….where it is about what is good for me and don’t care about the country….as long as I am comfortable then screw everybody else…

    2. “Nutwad conspiracies”? I think you should have defined what constitutes “nutwad”. (if only to prevent having to read the below rant)

      There are a lot of crazy theories about both events you mentioned. If you’re talking about quality, that’s fair. But there are a lot of theories that have some merit, or at least shed light important facts & evidence that would never otherwise have seen the light of day, especially if left to “official channels”.

      As they say, getting there is half the fun. I think the stuff we learned about the CIA directly & indirectly from folks looking into the JFK assignation is MORE than worth listening to some clown hyping his book on how Jimmy Hoffa was the 2nd Gunman. (ie working with the mafia, Cuba plots, assignations and all the Church Committee stuff.) Just the Lopez Report alone is a head-scratching expose that shows the depth the CIA will plunge to in order to hide shit. They buried/destroyed a report that had Oswald calling & visiting USSR & Cuban embassies in Mexico weeks before the assignation…and the phone tap & photos were probably of an Oswald imposter! http://oswaldsmother.blogspot.com.tr/2009/09/lopez-report-and-road-to-mexico.html

      I say anybody who still puts their faith in Official Reports is more of a “nutwad” than anyone . Most Official Reports aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. For example, even if their findings were 100% correct (Big if!) the Warren Commission and the 9/11 Commission were total Dog & Pony Shows. They were designed to give the public a story to believe, rather than a full investigation. Evidence was included/excluded/ignored and forced to fit a preordained narrative, a narrative that was acceptable to the Powers That Be.

      In the case of JFK, it’s hardly “nuts” to think a military guy who defected to the USSR, defected back to the US where he then publicly protested America’s anti-Cuba policies might have worked for some/multiple government agencies at some point. At the very least, it’s ludicrous to believe the CIA’s Official Version that he wasn’t on their radar screen at all. I mean, shit…the government knows what brand of toilet paper I use and what sock I put on first in the morning (Back me up Mr NSA agent who is reading this!)

      In the case of 9/11, you have a conspiracy by the very definition of the word. So that’s just a case of which conspiracy do you believe in? I think I believe the one described in the 28 pages of solid black marker that was released and never mentioned again. Any Official Report that censored MUST have some truth in it.

      Officially, American ships were attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, even though there wasn’t a ship or plane within a hundred miles. Officially, the US rounded up Nazis to be punished, not smuggled into the country to spy on Leftists. Officially, all men of fighting age hit in drone strikes are Enemy Combatants, even if they were just delivering pizza at the time. Officially, the Trans Pacific Partnership is just a trade deal that’s good for everyone. There’s quite a list of “nutwad” theories that turned out to be true, or partially true. Hell, I even remember when you had to be “certifiably insane” to think the US government would ever spying on ordinary, law abiding, citizens.

      History is just one long list of conspiracies…with The People playing the role of The Patsy.

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  5. It just doesn’t make any sense why there was no autopsy. I can’t get past it. Even if there were one, how honest would it be? My gut says fishy but without proof, who cares what I think?

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      1. Having been close to the Mortuary Business as a child, I can tell you with some authority that if an undertaker (Mortician)(Funeral Director)(Memory Picture Director) can get out of working on a deceased person who has undergone an autopsy they will do it every time. The reason most of the morticians I ever talked to about this always had the same answer for their unwillingness to deal with autopsies: “Too Messy.” In some states it requires a court order to hold and perform autopsy on a deceased and even then the closest of kin has to authorize the procedure.

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