>Of course, the rest of the story shows Joseph didn't read the whole story.
>
>http://www.parapolitics.info/phorum/read.php?f=4&i=822&t=822
And in case anyone didn't follow that link, here are the first two paragraphs:
>Hunter telephoned me on Feb. 19, the night before his death. He
>sounded scared. It wasn't always easy to understand what he said,
>particularly over the phone, he mumbled, yet when there was
>something he really wanted you to understand, you did. He'd been
>working on a story about the World Trade Center attacks and had
>stumbled across what he felt was hard evidence showing the towers
>had been brought down not by the airplanes that flew into them but
>by explosive charges set off in their foundations. Now he thought
>someone was out to stop him publishing it: "They're gonna make it
>look like suicide," he said. "I know how these bastards."
>
>That's how I imagine a tribute to Hunter S. Thompson should begin.
>He was indeed working on such a story, but it wasn't what killed
>him. He exercised his own option to do that. As he said to more than
>one person, "I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know
>I could commit suicide at any time."
Ooops, Joseph.
I'm relieved that HST isn't tainted with that nonsense.
Doug