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Republican Whistle Blower's House Burned Down and Car Run Off The Road

correntewire.com — [Dana Simpson has] been smeared as “crazy” and as a “disgruntled contract bidder.” And something nastier: after her intention to speak became known, Simpson’s house was burned to the ground, and her car was driven off the road and totaled. Clearly, there are some very powerful people in Alabama who feel threatened.

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  • jbus, on 10/11/2007, -2/+96The original article from Harper's: http://harpers.org/archive/2007/06/hbc-90000351
    • ivanisavich, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10Wow that's pretty messed up.
      • cawpin, on 10/11/2007, -16/+3FTA - "Um, national media? National media where are you? This sounds like something you might want to look into — perhaps? Maybe?"

        It seems to me I was thinking this exact same thing about 10 years ago. What was that? Oh yeah, when Clinton was having people wacked and nobody seemed to notice. Putting "Republican" in the title is just like Apple, iPhone or Kevin Rose. Put the story up and see if it gets popular. If it doesn't, live with it.
        • Pfhreak, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12You do realize that the "Republican" mentioned in the title is the whistleblower (the heroine, basically), right? If anything, it helps demonstrate that Republicans are good people, too, and are willing to resist the corruption taking hold of their own party, which I would have thought you'd be all for, giving the ideological bent implied in your post.

          "Clinton did it to" does not give any future administration a free pass. Especially when you bring up that "Clinton was having people wacked" nonsense that was debunked 10 years ago, as well. If Clinton had actually done it, it would have been wrong, and it would still be wrong if somebody else did it today.
      • rcook18, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10This seems like it should get looked at closer
    • nonsequitor, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Dugg + #1 so I can find it again after work for when I write my congressmen about it. I plan on writing all of them and both Judiciary Committee chairs. I suggest everyone else who is just as outraged should do the same.
    • NickMilne, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1"Very powerful people" don't do weak ***** like burning down a house or running cars off the road. They move in, make things disappear, and move out.

      And Digg.com doesn't ***** hear about it, that's for damn sure.
    • Scottamus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I hate reading stuff like this because I know nothing will happen to those responsible. No one high up will get impeached or go to prison or even get fired. I guess that has something to do with them firing every attorney that tries to prosecute them. Funny how that works. Well they got Abromoff at least. If you want to torture information out of people, please put him in the front of the line. But that's one out of dozens of these crooks.
  • nixonrichard, on 10/11/2007, -98/+5It's a shame. She coulda had class. She coulda been a contender. She coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what she is, let's face it.
    • liberalplacebo, on 10/11/2007, -9/+7!!!!!!!!!!! Tricky Dick! Is that you??? You're back! Tanned Rested & Ready I presume! It just hasn't been the same without you.......:)
  • Killbane, on 10/11/2007, -6/+82Looks like the good old boys are pissed..
  • laserblazer, on 10/11/2007, -15/+146Applying the same terrorist tactics that they used to scare voters in the '00 and '04 elections, these scum prove they'll hurt anyone at any time to stifle the truth.

    Par for the course. The Republican party and their Democrat partners are ***** America. The old good cop/bad cop trick never fails.
    • IslandDog, on 10/11/2007, -27/+7"Applying the same terrorist tactics that they used to scare voters in the '00 and '04 elections, these scum prove they'll hurt anyone at any time to stifle the truth."

      Oh please, stop being so dramatic. Nobody was "scared" in either of those elections.
      • laserblazer, on 10/11/2007, -5/+16Shows what you know. Study the GOP's track-record, listen to the eye-witnesses or read the Rove emails.

        Ignorance is ugly, but far worse when the information is so readily available.
        • Wargalas, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I seem to remember a few Democrats getting in trouble for slashing the tires on a Republican van who were taking voters to the voting booth. Terror tactics indeed.
        • BelXul, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2That kind oif thing happened in Milwaukee. It's really funny because never have I known the Republican Party to actually drive people to the polls in this county before or since, so why suddenly are the vans used for doing such a good deed when never at any other time would they have done such a charitable deed?
      • polyGone, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17Go ahead and count how many times they used the word terrorist on television.
        • Dumbledorito, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Aw, man, gimmee a break. I'm an American. You know I can't count that high. This is that "metric" stuff, right?
    • heliox, on 10/11/2007, -8/+2Unfortunately, you can't tell who's the good cop and who's the bad.
      • laserblazer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Chances are the bad cop is the one stealing your wallet and the good cop is the one going out for donuts with your bail money.
        • 98percentcogdis, on 03/25/2008, -1/+1Ha Ha Ha That is hysterical, and so true.
      • polyGone, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4Does it really matter? The point is that they are both working for the same goal.
    • namelessuno, on 10/11/2007, -11/+4If it is government then it is bad.....always and without exception.
  • MonsterChaOS, on 10/11/2007, -8/+92The ends justify the means for the neocons. Why do people still support these jackasses?
    • heliox, on 10/11/2007, -23/+5You people use the word necon too much. Unfortunately, 99% of time it is in the wrong context, and it make you look like a fool.
      For example...look above.
      • sibhod, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9considering this scandal implicates karl rove, then blaming this on neo-cons is pretty dead on
        • heliox, on 10/11/2007, -10/+2So...you are calling Karl Rove a neocon?
          Yep..i was right. Few people here have a clue other that to use neocon as pejorative for any evil conservative/republican.

          diggtards unite under the blanket of ignorance yet again.
      • feoren, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7"Neocon": short for "Neoconservative", meaning "New Conservative". This means people who call themselves conservatives, but advocate big, encroaching government and huge spending, exactly things which are totally counter to what "conservative" literally means, and what it used to mean. Neocon means Karl Rove, it means George Bush, it means almost anyone who is currently in the Republican party (except Ron Paul).
    • polyGone, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16They prey on the ignorance of a society that generally has to work 40-55 hours a week. After working your ass off, to survive, the masses last thought is participating in government. That coupled with the fact that the MSM is just another branch of the government.
    • CheckPlease, on 10/11/2007, -9/+1To scare the gays away from *****, Red State America.
      • suriyou, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Well it's working,'cause I want out.
    • feoren, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6"The ends" for these guys is controlling the entire government of America and absolute, eternal power for the Republican party. It's pretty hard to find people who desire those ends that aren't willing to justify any means.
    • PhillyMJS, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"Why do people still support these jackasses?"

      Because they are also against gay rights. In the minds of the midwestern and southern bible-thumping set, that makes them okay no matter what other skullduggery they engage in.
  • crzdmn, on 10/11/2007, -5/+66Do away with all parties to make people to vote for the person not a faceless party.
    • TheTaoOfBill, on 10/11/2007, -4/+10Write your congressman to do away with the electoral college and you will be doing just that.
    • DivisibleByZero, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3But then who would we scapegoat when it turns out politicians are still corrupt?
    • phonepimpbill, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Most of the Founders of this country said the same thing, but nobody listened.
    • roystgnr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8crzdmn: To get rid of political parties we'd have to get rid of freedom of assembly, and you wouldn't like the unintended consequences of that.

      TheTaoOfBill: The Electoral College, although a bad thing overall, is actually the only reason why many of us can vote for third-party candidates without "throwing our vote away". It was safe for me to vote for Badanarik in 2004, because there was no chance of my vote swaying Texas' electoral votes from Bush to Kerry. I had to hold my nose and vote for Gore in 2000, because there was a non-trivial chance that my vote would have made the difference in a swing state and kept Bush out of office.

      If we want to break the political party stranglehold on politics, the first thing we need to get rid of is plurality voting. Replace it with Condorcet, even replace it with Approval, but the important thing is that people need to be able to cast votes for a long shot candidate without abdicating their right to also express a preference between the two leading candidates.
      • feoren, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Voting for someone when you know they won't win your state is the definition of throwing your vote away. You voted for someone who you knew would not possibly win Texas, and therefore threw your vote in the garbage. The electoral college was created because it was hugely too compliated to run a nationwide election without delegating the responsibility down the chain, and with technology, that is no longer the case.
        • Clark3934, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I hate people when people say they don't want to "throw their vote away." Guess what. You're vote doesn't statistically matter, and no matter what you do, it might as well have been thrown away. It is a mathematical fact that you're vote will most likely not change a thing; and this is why economists don't vote.

          More information can be found in the book Freakonomics by Steven Levitt.
  • zybch, on 10/11/2007, -3/+41When will these bastards realise that by undertaking such actions against so-called whistle blowers they are only giving the claims more and more weight and legitimacy!!
    • blaze4metal, on 10/11/2007, -8/+5Nobody likes a narc.
      • blaze4metal, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Dammit, I forgot the /sarcasm. Resume the burying, folks.
    • DrooliusSneezer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2You know..., these sorts of intimidating tactics aimed at critics worked EXCEEDINGLY well for the likes of Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin. What makes us think it won't work just as well today as it did 50 or 60 years ago?
  • gthrank, on 10/11/2007, -4/+51Whats the difference between this and burning crosses of the front lawns of people?
    These assholes will fall. Very very hard.
    • idonthack, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5The difference is when you burn a cross in someone's lawn, that by itself can't kill them.
  • heliox, on 10/11/2007, -20/+3...
  • BlacklabelSAR, on 10/11/2007, -1/+33Witness the violence inherent in the system. Money and power rules, the rest is just window dressing. We are all being ***** every day of our lives, to quote Bill Hicks.
    • smcavoy, on 10/11/2007, -11/+4shut up and get a helmet.
      • StrangeFamous, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8It's "Life sucks, get a ***** helmet"... a quote from Denis Leary... who got his inspiration from Bill Hicks. You just pwned yourself, douchebag.
    • usrlocalbin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6"Back and to the left. Back and to the left"

      Why do they let bad people run rampant and kill off all the good ones? JFK, Gandhi, MLK, John Lennon, etc.

      Sad sad country we're living in today.
    • Mtdewrulz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Help! Help! I'm being Repressed! Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about. Did you see him repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?
    • phonepimpbill, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2With as horrible as the public eye has become for people in office, only the scumbags who don't mind being run through the ringer want to step a toe near it.
  • 15thPD, on 10/11/2007, -9/+3You don't have to be "very powerful" to set a fire.
    • blaze4metal, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Just to get away with it.
      • GeneralFault, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Just to get away with it when everybody saw you throw the maltov cocktail.
  • AntBing, on 10/11/2007, -1/+39Its a shame that nothing is going to change, mainly because there are too many lazy people who would rather post worthless comments than go out and protest or rally for a cause. We need to get off our asses and do something about the problems rather than whine on a website most people will never see.
    • laserblazer, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7Think of the Internet as a Free Speech Zone that you don't have to travel to to access.
    • DivisibleByZero, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Does going out and protesting really amount to anything more than posting a comment on digg? Hell you're probably reaching a larger audience doing it this way...
      • joebob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I have to wonder whether any of it will make any impact either way. Knowledge is always useful, but if entire branches of government are willing to ignore the rule of law and the will of the people. You have to wonder whether any protest will actually get through that kind of ignorance and neglect.

        It's impossible to protest that our government is broken, the popular support splinters off into special interests. To be continually ignored until an issue with universal appeal is aligned with universal disgust with the current policy.

        I would like to see a 'million man march' style protest directly on the white house but it would have to be focused on the issue with the largest base of appeal. Likely the mid-east invasi... err occupa... err I mean *****.


    • StrangeFamous, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9It's a good thing you're on the same website posting comments then, instead of organizing rallies.
    • caleb4mj, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Protest? Rally? How about we burn down their houses and run their cars off the road? Eye for an eye. Trying to destroy the very foundation of my country is treason. Breaking our laws after the fact is stupid, it gives us much less incentive to give you a fair trial before we punish you. Habeas Corpus? Does anyone remember that? Habeas what? I vaguely remember... but I've been watching Fox News for so long.. Why should I be honorable and obey the law, they don't? And they seem to be getting away with it just fine..
    • dainbramage559, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7I hate the kind of comment that AntBing presents.

      Talk comes before action. We are just preparing ourselves. As time goes on, I see more and more intelligent and insightful comments on their take on the administration.
      Its no longer: Bush sucks!
      Its: Bush has taken away the following freedoms, done this, this, and that. Constitution this, wiretapping that.
      etc.

      At least -- I'm speaking for myself. Because of comments on digg and other social news sites I am much more knowledgeable about our constitution. Sometimes the comments section can be much more insightful than the featured website itself.
      • maxtangent, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2It is important to express your views like this so that you can get a sense of just how many people feel the same way. Without such a system, we would feel isolated - as if we were the only ones looking at the man behind the curtain.
  • dumuzi, on 10/11/2007, -9/+65Hey guys, look this way! Paris is out of jail!

    Go back to sleep America.
    • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 10/11/2007, -12/+4Oh you're clever and original.
    • phonepimpbill, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Pretty accurate commentary, though. More people know about Paris Hilton than anything that matters.
    • DrIce926, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4SHE IS?!! Ohmygoooaaaddd!! *turns on TV excitedly*

      (sadly representing most of the college boys and girls I know)

      WHO THE ***** CARES!?
    • BelXul, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Go back to bed, America. Here, here's America's Gladiators! Watch these pituitary retards bang their
      f^¢&ing skulls together and congradulate you for living in the land of freedom! You are free to do as we tell you!
  • BohicaTwentyTwo, on 10/11/2007, -19/+8Anyone who uses the word, "Rovian" needs to seek professional help.
  • versionist, on 10/11/2007, -6/+3Or a very weak arsonist.
  • DocHoliday22, on 10/11/2007, -4/+34The line's being blurred between Scientologists and Republicans...
    • CheckPlease, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Oh, you mean Mormons? Aren't they the meeting point between Scientologists and Republicans?
    • williamdyer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13Mitt Romney's favorite book is Battlefield Earth.

      That's creepier than secret underwear.
  • slapout, on 10/11/2007, -15/+7"I’ve always felt that Alabama was really a third world banana republic"

    I haven't heard about this story, but as someone living in Alabama, I find that insulting.
    • avasol, on 10/11/2007, -4/+8Alabama's got Internet now? My, you guys develop pretty fast... What's next? Cell-yo-lar phones?
    • kuzotz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7lol people outside the south tend to prove how ignorant they are when they talk about the south..

      I'm in oklahoma. What now? Am I gonna get the same ***** talk avasol?

      Dumbass.
    • idonthack, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7You think you've got it bad, I'm from Texas.
    • caleb4mj, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Y'all better be voting American, ya hear? No supporting anymore neoterrorists down there. Cut this bush ***** out! The next time you vote a Nazi into office I'ma come down there, go door to door and stomp on some Red Communist Nazi Fascists faces forever. That's a picture of your conservative future.
    • dainbramage559, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Okies? Well, as far as I know, you guys have the DUMBEST marijuana laws ever.

      I'm from Memphis, TN. And yeah, we have a ***** ton of retarded people everywhere. I could go on and on, really... Don't try to ignore that the south often speaks for itself in regards to its image. Even if there are people down here who have more than just a couple of brain cells clicking together, the assorted variety of retards we have down here often stand out.
  • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 10/11/2007, -18/+5Or maybe she did it to herself to get some attention.

    Just sayin
    • StrangeFamous, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Yeah, it's so much easier to burn down your own house and wreck your car than it is to go to the media with important information.
    • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2But seriously, if there was a crime committed, have it investigated. If it was done by the local police, call the state police. Go directly to IA if you feel that the police are covering up a crime.

      Whining about it to a website isn't going to help.
    • phonepimpbill, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Not too far fetched, really. What better way to draw attention to oneself and the "cause" ?
    • BelXul, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Exactly! That's precicely why we went to war with Afghanistan! We needed some reason to get people to support the idea of going to war with the middle eastern world, and by George, it worked!
  • RFacter, on 10/11/2007, -0/+29Boy, I'd love to be able to protest how corrupt our government seems to have gotten, but I know that if I do, I might risk imprisonment. If only there was a way we could coordinate a large scale protest electronically from the privacy of our own homes before we actually foolishly went out on our own only to get detained indefinitely under our post Patriot Act regime.
    • SouthsideIrish, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Move to New Hampshire. Much harder to disappear when people have got you back. Judges now realize that if you put a protester away that he, the police and the prison are going to be harassed by a lot of people. Tends to make them just want to let the prisoner go. Heck, the Secret Service doesn't even know what to do about the Browns, every time they try to raid them lots of people show up to take pictures.
    • TheFinaleofSeem, on 10/11/2007, -5/+0Uh huh. Right. So many protesters are in prison for protesting. Yep.

      Why do the paranoid delusionals get dugg up?
      • MarkOfTheDead, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5yeah actually only a choice few have the luxury of going to jail. most get gassed and beaten as the fellow police look on and laugh.

        go back to sleep, you aren't missing anything you haven't already decided is false.
    • BelXul, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Actually, yes. I've been arrested before, and it's interesting to see a new surge of prisoners come in because they were protesting whenever Bush came to town. Apparently the local police don't want the king to think that there's dissent out on the streets.
  • blaze4metal, on 10/11/2007, -1/+50FTA: "Wouldn’t it be nice if the folks in the national media did their jobs these days?"

    Oh they are doing their jobs alright:
    CNN front page article: http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/26/hilton.release/index.html
    MSNBC front top right article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19427748/
    Fox News front page article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,286696,00.html
  • toasty168, on 10/11/2007, -1/+31Article is a good read. Shows just how far our Machevalian politics have come. it's disgusting.
    • ponchietto, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I think its Macchiavellian. Apart from that, agreed.
  • Smokersroom, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2a
  • LoneRanger85, on 10/11/2007, -10/+6Uh oh. Somebody had better start compiling the facts -- like the Clinton death list. http://www.lizmichael.com/clintond.htm
    • StrangeFamous, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6You've got to be kidding! That woman is ***** insane, and the list is all speculation and conspiracy theory.
      • 98percentcogdis, on 03/25/2008, -1/+2The only conspiracy theory in the official one that comes from the current administration.
      • g026r, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Ummmm... I think he knows that, as is implying that this story is nothing but speculation and conspiracy theory.
  • jellygraph, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9these sorts of republicans make me sick...
  • GooMan, on 10/11/2007, -5/+15The article mentioned Rove but forgot to mention Halliburton. You all know that everything wrong in the world involves both of them.
    • rcook18, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Thank you for reminding us of this fact.
  • afolse, on 10/11/2007, -3/+36This is disgusting, but the reality is that this kind of thing happens all of the time. In a college class I had three years back a woman came in to speak about the results of using depleted uranium in bombs and weapons in warfare and the the horrific results it can have on the victims, innocent bystanders, people in the area, the soldiers, and the soldiers families. She was a whistle blower to the mutilating affects that the depleted uranium was having for anyone who came in contact with it and often those who had problems because their spouses or partners were infected with it. This woman decided that she was going to make it her life goal to expose this type of injustice and blew the whistle on the company she was working with. Needless to say her story was actually just as bad as this person's in Alabama. They tried to make it seem like she was crazy. They tried to get her daughter taken away from her, they ruined her marriage, of course got her fired, and have still been tormenting her to this day, because she will not stop her crusade at any cost. She said she feared her life every day, but she knew that what she was doing was for the greater good. How can we let this kind of thing keep happening?
    • rcook18, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Who is this person? I would like to search for her story on the internet.
    • SpaceMonkeyZero, on 10/11/2007, -8/+2Too bad those complaints about DU are unfounded.
    • RobotChicken1, on 03/07/2008, -0/+4I actually think that the more the companies try to silence the stuff, the guiltier it makes them look. It is better to be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and prove it... well, it doesn't quite sound right in this situation, but you get the picture.
  • seraph82, on 10/11/2007, -9/+6Hahahaha what the hell is she doing in Alabama if she's going to be whistleblowing against the repubs? Anyone from Alabama knows that she should have known better. They do NOT take kindly to such actions.
  • oriondarkwood, on 10/11/2007, -2/+28You every wonder why you never hear about the Mafia anymore.. cause they all given up illegal business for the legal and much more profitable business of running our goverment

    WAKE UP SHEEP, FREE YOUR MIND, GRAB YOUR FOREFATHERS BALL's and USE THEM
    • rhustang, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5you first.

      baaaaah.
    • blaze4metal, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3My mind is free. I can ace the jump program every time.
  • Mtdewrulz, on 10/11/2007, -16/+4Maybe she really IS crazy. That sounds to me like classic schizophrenic behavior. I didn't get in an accident... Somebody ran me off the road!!! And I didn't fall asleep smoking a joint (trying to calm the voices in my head)... somebody burned my house down!!!

    Oh... wait... that doesn't gel with your conspiracy theories. Never mind.
    • rcook18, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Or, maybe she is telling the truth
    • chicofaraby, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9"Oh... wait... that doesn't gel with your conspiracy theories. Never mind."

      True. That is YOUR conspiracy theory.
  • necbone, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Don't mess with Evil Empire, they ALWAYS strike back!!
  • Bercebu48, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Blame Karl Soprano Rove.
  • opiophile, on 10/11/2007, -18/+2Were at war, and all the libs can think about is 'oh this poor guy/girl got his ***** ganked up for being a traitor!!!1'. Acting like Benedict Arnold while our nation is at war should get a bullet to the head, or at least a life rotting in a dark prison cell. All this guy got was a slap on the wrist. Boo fricken hoo.
    • bm8631, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Dugg you down because you don't have a soul.
  • ManOfVirtues, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21Well here are the steps she needs to take:
    1. Make a video tape, showing the date of a newspaper, and tell everything she knows on that tape.
    2. Make SEVERAL copies of that tape and distribute said tape to individuals in the media, alternative media, a LOCAL judge, and an unknown source (a friend that no one would be able to link to her) with instructions to copy and distribute on a viral scale should anything happen to her.
    3. Contact her local Militia or personal protection agency to have security detail organized.
    4. GO PUBLIC, get on Larry King, or whoever will take you and tell the whole story. Once that happens no one can touch you. Your Testimony is on film and ready to go and CANNOT be recanted.

    In a situation like this you are dead, until you can prove you want to live. It sucks but its fact. These people will do anything and everything to silence her voice, now she has to do anything and everything to protect it.
  • NCSUspoon, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6@opiophile: I guess you wouldnt mind if the same thing happened to you then. The view that speaking out against the government is pan-ammount to being Benedict Arnold is completely unamerican. Also keep in mind that the government is not republican or democratic. But the majority of America is left-wing now, so technically your the benedict arnold. Just keep that in mind next time you say something stupid
  • Robyr, on 10/11/2007, -1/+25Karen Silkwood. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Silkwood

    Killed after a crusade against Kerr-McGee, and the health hazards it allowed to remain unchecked. I know someone who worked with her, and remembers the car she drove. She was not known to take mass amounts of drugs, and did not use tranquilizers, but an trooper said he found Marijuana and the coroner found methaqualone in her blood. The marijuana was never found or turned in as evidence, and the bottle for the qualudes were never found. Imagine that.
  • mwmccullough, on 10/11/2007, -7/+1I don't know, but maybe the reason "mainstream media" hasn't reported this is because perhaps they did do their homework and found an inconsistency and decided that just because a blogger with an opinion made a statement, doesn't necessarily mean it's national news. I'm not a big fan of this Admin. by any means, I'm just sayin'.
  • penguinsix, on 10/11/2007, -5/+6Well, she's still alive, which is better than some of the folks surrounding the Clintons past dealings...
  • Vorrel, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1If she was colored, this would be all over the news as a "Hate Crime" and we would hear about it for 6 months. NAACP would make sure of it.
    But she isn't, so in two days time everyone will forget except those directly affected by it.
    Isn't reverse racism wonderful?
  • ddad01, on 10/11/2007, -7/+0Must be the Jews. Or those dastardly Republicans. Or the Bilderburgers.
  • viviwanu, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2She got it easy - they could have killed her instead!
    • nonsequitor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6They DID try to kill her twice. They burned down her house, presumably they believed her to be inside it at the time. They ran her car off the road, with her inside it. How is that not 2 attempts at murder?
    • viviwanu, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Thanks for the tips! Why would they send kids to do grown-ups' jobs? Bring out the master Cheney himself!
  • TheFinaleofSeem, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3I'm having trouble finding anything on this article outside of a few blogs. Anything in the news about this, even if it is a simple piece on the house fire or the car going off the road?
    • TheFinaleofSeem, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Wow, dugg down for trying to find an alternate source? Geez, don't ever going against the grain on Digg, no matter how small...
  • stepnw1f, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Fascism....
  • edemerton, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Skulls, anyone?
  • JonXP, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Are there any details at all on this? Just "her car was run off the road" which can describe any number of things, and her house burning down, which of course is a tragedy...but how is it actually linked? Coincidences != conspiracy. Is there any info on what is meant by her car going off the road and/or how the house fire started?

    I dislike certain factors of the administration as much as the next normal thinking person, but I prefer to hear something that isn't pure conjecture based on what can be coincidences. It's really hard to use that kind of stuff in a debate.
    • BelXul, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3How many coincidences does it take before one can rationally draw a conclusion that there really is a conspiracy going on?
      • JonXP, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1We don't know any of the circumstances behind the incidents. For all we know, it could be a reporter trying to be sensationalist when she just swerved to avoid a dog on the road.

        And to answer your question more specifically...more than two. ;-)
  • vinwal, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2The world would be a better place if more people had her courage.
  • ecorona, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Let this be a lesson to all of you. Sort yourselves out and fly straight. Do as you're told. This country doesn't belong to you unless you have money.
  • unity2k, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0There is a story current this afternoon from the Los Angeles Times that is following the Rove/Siegelman crime. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-siegelman26jun26,1,3489857.story?coll=la-headlines-nation&ctrack=4&cset=true
  • snooly, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5The recent fire at Obama's residence in Washington might have been a calling card. Next would be he gets in office and they threaten his life. I read that Bush was threatened early on. There has been a lot of political assasinations including General Patton. Look it up. Guy is at the heigth of his game, he is loud, he has opinions, he does not like what he sees directly after after WW2. They give him a remote outpost but he is still loud and he is popular. On his own base a truck hits his vehicle. He is in the hospital recovering and three days later he dies in the hospital. This sounds like a political assasination to me. DO not underestimate how ruthless these shadow government operatives are. Look at Kennedy. He started printing his own US currency independent of the Fed Res.and realized the rip-off that the privately owned US Federal Reserve was doing (look it up) and soon after he was dead. A very high percentage of the Apollo program astronauts died unnatural deaths. You know their details, you get unhappy, you are thought to be a threat to their system, you are dead. Even Paul Cray of Cray computers died in a car wreck. He probably knew a lot. I haven't looked into the Cray death but a lot of people deep in the system or at the top meet a fate other than natural death.
  • FRANKeB, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Take THAT 'Liberty and Justice for all' !
  • diode1002, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3America is a country run by the mafia.. so what else is new?

    Vote Ghouliani, celebrate the corruption, filth and decay.
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