American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone

by Four Arrows and James H. Fetzer

Book Overview

Senator Paul Wellstone was the first 1960s radical elected to the U.S. Senate. In his re-election race in 2002, the White House hand-picked Norm Coleman to run against him and the GOP poured in the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0975276301
• ISBN13: 9780975276303
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Vox Pop
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

To the skeptical Republicans on these pages..

I suggest you read the review below, citing the mother who refused to believe the photographs in front of her eyes. Assassinating Liberal leaders is nearly an American tradition. So easy. Nobody ever questions it or complains about it. In fact every Liberal leader America has seen since WWII has turned up dead at a young age. Imagine. This book is as comprehensive as it could possibly be in presenting an irrefutable argument for assassination. The evidence is there and it is abundant. Just as it was for the previous assassinations . America's silence on these matters is disgraceful. We owe a debt of gratitude to these authors.

Grounded in Method

I acquired American Assassination last year, the moment it was first avaliable. Opening it on my way to the busstop my eyes flooded. I loved Paul, that was indeed part of my emotion. But I had just had a dream about Seneca, that he was an old man who had taken a protective position at my front door. The preface of this book opens with a quote from the ancient. "The one who derives advantage from a crime is the one most likely to have committed it." I was grateful, a tremendous relief unlocking tears not only of grief, but terrible frustration. Someone was going to help us citizens who doubted the official line about what caused, and what did not cause, the plane to crash. Having lived in Argentina at the beginning of the Dirty War, I was not able to grow up trusting implicitly what "the government" says. Having read my Argentine friends' names in the lists of the disappeared, I was not naive. After over 30 years of having sickening hunches verified in fact, I knew that my sickness over the death of Paul and Sheila and the others was nothing to apologize for. Still, it is a comfort to others and essential for the truth to learn the facts. Some time after the crash I became acquainted with articles written by Jim Fetzer. He was methodically recording his own investigation into the crash and also into the government's investigation. My gut feelings aligned with his findings. I have communicated with him - to get a closer feel for his character - which like Paul's is strong, full of energy and humanity. Like the above quote, many of Seneca's sayings seem so obvious one might wonder why anyone ever bothered to preserve them. Contemporaries may not have had a method, or maturity, in their thinking that allowed clear perceptions regarding the human drama. This book has been and will be criticized, for one reason, because it is a preposterous idea to some that people would assassinate a US Senator, and not just people, but the people who would derive advantage. Those people. My sister at my wedding made a catastrophe of the wedding photos, putting bunny-ear fingers over the groom's head just before the shutter flashed. The photos show that she was betraying my trust - the maid of honor trashing such a ceremony. It is amazing to me how my mother will not accept this fact even though she has seen and believes the photographs. She simply cannot believe it. There is no room in her mind for it. The facts slip through a membrane in her reality and disappear. That will happen with this book - some will read and believe but then it will slip away and although it seems true, there is no room in their reality for it. For others, like me, it will clothe the gut sensations in facts, bind us together, and if not bring forth justice will adjust the lines of history toward truth.

Abundant and Compelling Evidence

The authors of this important book argue that Senator Paul Wellstone's death, 10 days before the 2002 elections, was an assassination, most likely ordered by the Bush administration. Directly confronting the widespread tendency to reject all "conspiracy theories," the authors point out that "the idea that every theory that implies the existence of conspiracy ought to be rejected out of hand" is no more rational than the idea that every such theory should be accepted. Rather, "each case has to be evaluated on the basis of the evidence that is relevant and available in that case." On that basis, they argue, if we look at ALL the relevant evidence and employ the scientific method of inference to the best explanation, we must conclude that the theory that Wellstone was assassinated is far more probable than the official theory, according to which his airplane crash was an accident. The evidence includes several facts suggesting that the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) colluded with the FBI in a cover-up: 1. FBI agents from Minneapolis arrived at the crash site within 2 hours after the crash, even though the trip from Minnesota to Duluth to the crash site would have taken at least 3 hours--so they must have departed before the plane crashed. 2. When asked for the times at which private flights had arrived in Duluth that morning, the FAA said the records had been destroyed. 3. Considerable disinformation about weather conditions was quickly given to the press. 4. Although regulations called for the investigation to be carried out by the NTSB, not the FBI (because the crash site was not designated a crime scene), the FBI agents were there for 8 hours before the NTSB team arrived. 5. The FBI, even though there illegally, prevented the local "first responders" from taking photographs. 6. Although it was the NTSB's responsibility to determine the cause of the crash and although the FBI's prior presence was illegal, the NTSB leader publicly accepted the FBI's declaration, made before the NTSB's investigation, that there was no evidence of terrorism. 7. When the NTSB team finally carried out its own investigation, it was unable to find either the cockpit recorder, which it assumed the plane had had, or the black box. 8. The NTSB held no public hearings, claiming that it was not a sufficiently "high-profile" case. 9. The NTSB's final report concealed the fact of the FBI's participation. 10. The NTSB investigation was headed by Acting Director Carol Carmody, a Bush appointee who had earlier ruled that there was no foul play in the small airplane crash in 2000 that took the life of Governor Mel Carnahan of Missouri, the Democratic candidate for the Senate who was killed 3 weeks before his expected victory (over John Ashcroft). The evidence also includes some facts strongly suggesting the falsity of the NTSB's official conclusion, which was that the plane crashed because the pilot failed to maintain proper speed, causing the plane to

OBSERVATIONS

The authors draw from a vast amount of researched documentation and using a scientific model refute the official findings with extraordinary depth and clarity. Relying also upon first person accounts and interviews with people who give a different perspective than the mainstream mush; the authors establish that more likely than not Wellstone was murdered. The enemies of Wellstone were many, some of whom were hardly mentioned.

Block by Block

The thought that two major investigative Bureaucracies of one's own government would conspire together to obfuscate the facts of a fatal plane crash and prevent the public from knowing of the murder of a US Senator is so foreign and so outrageous to most citizens that they cannot even consider the possibility that this could occur. That these two US Gov't agencies could and would knowingly feed the major media untrue sound-bites to be fed to and consumed by the public as facts is tacitly unbelievable for most average Americans who know nothing of covert operations and "wetwork". The public consumption of these false sound-bite as facts builds a wall of psychological denial for these average citizens which is extremely difficult to abridge. Professors Four Feathers and Fetzer remove these bricks of denial one at a time by their presentation of definitive, easy to verify facts until this wall of denial dissolves into a pile of dust. Brick #1> bad weather; Brick #2 > crash caused by pilot error; Brick #3 > bad, tired, careless, criminal pilot, etc., etc. Drs. Four Feathers and Fetzer remove these bricks one at a time until the media wall that it was "an accident" just isn't there any more. All that remains is evidence which demands and supports the only other remaining alternate conclusion which is "the crash WAS NOT an accident". And not being an accident means that it was MURDER! This book proves two things to me, both proven by impeccable logic and easily verifiable facts: Senator Wellstone and the other passengers were murdered; and the fbi and ntsb knowingly conspired to obfuscate and coverup the facts of the crash site and their own tainted roles in the investigation, all the while being knowingly or unknowing aided by a media willing to regurgitate their "official sound-bites" with no critical investigative reporting or even simple questions. The good doctors do not claim to know who ordered or enacted the hit, although it is obvious that they view the situation as suggestive of who might have done it (eg republican power brokers). I can't go there without additional who-done-it evidence. A lot of folks had much to gain by Senator Wellstone's death (and his wife's death too). The words from Ike's last speech in office where he cautioned about the undue influence of the "industrial military complex" eg "shadow gov't" came to mind while I was reading the book. The book has a few what I would call extraneous "liberal based" remarks which I ignored, being that I am a conservative republican and voted accordingly in this election. But the bottom line is this, no reasonable person can read this book carefully and still believe Senator Wellstone's death was an accident. Distasteful and horrible as this raw truth may be, that is what is left when you are finished reading and understanding Drs. Four Feather's and Fetzer's book. Like it or not (and I don't like it) this is the way it is. You better get yourself a copy of this book asap w