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Conspiracy in the Carnahan Carnage
by Kenn Thomas
The main eyewitness to the destruction of Missouri Governor Carnahans plane,
a man named Tom Hunter, mentioned to a local St. Louis news reporter that he
saw FBI agents, several of them, with badges, immediately on the scene.
One of the St. Louis newscasters dismissed this as a local sheriff who
apparently likes to wear a baseball cap with the letters FBI on it.
As funny as that scenario sounds, it does not match the full
description given by Tom Hunter.
Hunters description of the crash also mentions a loud explosion and the
sky turning red, indicating an explosion in the air, not just the sound of
the plane hitting the earth.
Who were the mysterious "FBI" agents?
Probably not the sheriff, but also probably not the FBI either,
strictly speaking. They fit a pattern in conspiracy lore of shadow
government/octopus-type agents, like Men In Black, who immediately arrive on
the scene to make sure an operation comes off as planned.
Many of the people I talked to in the aftermath of the crash asserted
that this is in-your-face conspiracy for those who haven't been brainwashed
by the media to dismiss it all as paranoid crap.
When the same local newscaster "accidentally" ran an ad by Carnahan's
opponent in the Missouri senate race, John Ashcroft, while reporting on the
Carnahan plane wreck--despite Ashcroft oh-so-nobly withdrawing all ads, since
he didn't need them anymore--the newscaster apologized, reassuring viewers
that "there's nothing conspiratorial going on here".
Other strange connections surround the crash: it replayed, for
instance, the 1975 plane crash in Missouri that killed Congressman Jerry
Litton and his family during an election. That crash helped put John
Danforth, who now heads the government Waco investigation, in the Missouri
Senate seat, just as this crash is seen as a boon to Ashcroft. Missouri is a
swing state in the national election.
Without accusing anyone of anything in this tragic circumstance, it
should be noted that the proximity of the last presidential debate in St.
Louis at the time of the Carnahan crash would have made it a powerful
symbolic gesture for any secret manipulators.
Conventional explanations exist, of course, even for the improbable
notion that a sensible person like Governor Carnahan would take a small, twin
engine Cessna in that terrible weather and have his son do the piloting
despite recent memories of JFK Jr. (I did not know Carnahan well, but a photo
exists of me and him and Paul Simon--of Simon & Garfunkel, not the Illinois
politician--at a party together.)
Carnahan had to be at a fundraiser and be visible for Gore at the time
of the debates, for instance, and that may have over ridden common sense
concerns. A St. Louis weathercaster reported that there was no lightning that
night (apparently they can determine that by radar records), so that limits
the possibility of that explanation. Some speculation has it that the
horizontal gyro was at fault, broken or possibly jimmied. NTSB doesn't
promise an answer for another year. One wonders if it will account for the
"FBI" team that the witness saw.
Kenn Thomas
Steamshovel Press
