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But not considered suspicious by the police. Of course not.
Yes, Scotland Yard will be right on that.
nothing odd about that
What an amazing coincidence.
Ironically, it’s terrible news for Murdoch. Whatever the truth is, people will assume the worst. I know I will.
It may have been liver failure. According to this Guardian story he was a drug addict:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul…
So he shot himself six times in the chest, reloaded and then shot himself six times in the back. What’s so strange about that?
Maybe he fell down an elevator shaft. Onto some bullets.
Yeah. Because this really helps the criminal defense of the folks arrested in the UK with juries. I mean, what makes a person look more innocent than when a major witness dies under interesting circumstances?
These folks have more money than God. You really think they just wouldn’t hire a very good lawyer and fight the case on its merits? Doesn’t sound like the guy was all that credible a witness to begin with in open court under cross examination, but in death he suddenly becomes a saint. Hardly the course anyone would advise for the defendants.
Seriously, take off the tin-foil hats and breathe some fresh air for a few minutes. Better? Okay, back to your paranoid delusions. Have fun.
Let me get you started in fact-
The real story is that Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and Rupert Murdoch cooked up alibis, and did the hit themselves. They were high on meth, and hired underage male prostitutes for the after hit party. Then GW Bushes private plane flew Rove and Cheney home, with Rick Santorum piloting and Sarah Palin at the co-pilot. Michelle Bachmann served drinks in the cabin, acting as stewardess to say thanks for the murder.
Oh yeah, and bankers and oil company execs paid for the operation.
@ 9, Michelle Bachmann would never serve drinks unless her husband demanded her to, you sexist.
yeah this isn’t suspicious I’m sure lol
@11
So, your theory is that the coroner, police, local judiciary and anyone else in the immense paper trail following death in the UK are all corrupt?
The police faked the investigation, you think, and wrote reports to support this? Then they testified or are willing to testify to these lies in court?
The coroner lied on the pathology report, covering up evidence of murder? And again, he or she is willing to lie in the inquest?
The judge in the inquest, if one occurs, won’t consider the circumstances and question the police and coroner to determine if anything untoward was going on?
All of this while knowing that the kinds of international paranoi that is happening would inevitably happen? All while knowing about the intense media scrutiny certain to follow this case?
Okay then.
Take the Seattle Booze longwinded post and apply to Vince Foster, Obama’s birth certificate or any other of the very long list of right wing fantasies.
Of course in the Murdock case we already have a growing list of corrupt police officials.
@12 You sound like you’re trying to force yourself into believing your own opinion.
@14
I don’t have an opinion, except to consider what’s likely and discard what my experience and human nature suggest isn’t.
The police have an opinion. Their opinion is that this death wasn’t homocide. And they’re willing to take that opinion to court and face the media storm that opinion incited.
The coroner has an opinion. That opinion is also that this death wasn’t homocide. He or she must also back this opinion in a court, or to the media.
Those officials can lose their jobs, their livelihoods, their reputations if they lie. All over a dead man they don’t know, theoretically to protect live men and women they also don’t know. In a case like this where the lie will certainly come to light under the intense scrutiny it was certain to receive, what idiot would take that chance?
On the other hand, the man who died had serious credibility issues, drug and alchohol problems, reportedly had personal problems. Suicide is far from incomprehensible under those circumstances. Sad maybe, but not as difficult to believe as a vast conspiracy in the UK to murder him.
My opinion really doesn’t matter here. That of law enforcement and the judicial system in the UK does.
Why not focus on the crimes that did occur around this phone tapping and ignore the hysteria and paranoi?
@14 – all your sarcastic extrapolations to tin foil hat conspiracies aside, I’d like to know what an “unexplained death” legally means in the UK. Care to enlighten?
sorry I meant @15 above.