Scalia's Death

Overheal

Antonin Scalia of the US Supreme Court.

Obligatory boards.ie thread for the purposes of headrolling commentary on the internet...

In the mainstream: Scalia died of an apparent heart attack while sleeping in Texas while on vacation, hunting.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/texas-tv-station-scalia-died-of-a-heart-attack/2016/02/14/938e2170-d332-11e5-9823-02b905009f99_story.html

He was pronounced dead over the telephone which - apparently, is perfectly legal in TX. The family made it clear they didn't want an autopsy.

He was found in his bedroom with a pillow over his face (what assassin doesn't move the pillow?) http://nypost.com/2016/02/15/scalia-found-dead-with-pillow-over-his-head-ranch-owner/

Conspiracy Theorists (aka Youtube) Are going nuts, because of some old testimony that apparently affirms the CIA has a "heart attack dartgun" that leaves nothing but a red dot on the entry wound, with the toxin denaturalizing within a few hours, making it virtually impossible to prove by autopsy.

http://www.infowars.com/the-cia-heart-attack-gun-they-dont-want-you-to-know-about/

Military.com source for dartgun http://www.military.com/video/guns/pistols/cias-secret-heart-attack-gun/2555371072001

A CIA secret weapon used for assassination shoots a small poison dart to cause a heart attack, as explained in Congressional testimony in the video. The dart from this secret CIA weapon can penetrate clothing and leave nothing but a tiny red dot on the skin. On penetration of the deadly dart, the individual targeted for assassination may feel as if bitten by a mosquito, or they may not feel anything at all. The poisonous dart completely disintegrates upon entering the target. The lethal poison then rapidly enters the bloodstream causing a heart attack. Once the damage is done, the poison denatures quickly, so that an autopsy is very unlikely to detect that the heart attack resulted from anything other than natural causes. Sounds like the perfect James Bond weapon, doesn't it? Yet this is all verifiable in Congressional testimony. The astonishing information about this secret weapon of the CIA comes from U.S. Senate testimony in 1975 on rogue activities of the CIA. This weapon is only one of many James Bond-like discoveries of the Church Committee hearings, officially known as the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence activities.

Conservatives are crying foul because Scalia was involved with several cases before the SCOTUS, including some that directly challenged the authority of the President. He also was part of legal talks (citation needed) that discussed the arrest of the president and/or the arrest of Hillary Clinton. So of course :rolleyes: he was assassinated and such. Of course, no Presidency is quite complete without some type of conspiracy CT am I right? As far as CTs go, a heart attack dartgun is pretty out there.

Edgarfrndly

Almost 80 year old man dies in his sleep. Average life expectancy in the US is 78 years.

What's the problem?

Overheal

Oh, there isn't one. But I'm documenting the theory since its flying around the nether.

weisses

Overheal wrote: »

Oh, there isn't one. But I'm documenting the theory since its flying around the nether.

I can understand the CT angle

You have a Supreme Court Justice who died, not in attendance of a physician,” he wrote. “You have a non-homicide trained US Marshal tell the justice of peace that no foul play was observed. You have a justice of the peace pronounce death while not being on the scene and without any medical training opining that the justice died of a heart attack. What medical proof exists of a myocardial Infarction? Why not a cerebral hemorrhage

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/02/15/conspiracy-theories-swirl-around-the-death-of-antonin-scalia/

Guy:Incognito

So the CIA have the heart attack gun that leaves no trace, but they arent happy with that so put the pillow over his head to raise suspicions? cool.

weisses wrote: »

I can understand the CT angle



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/02/15/conspiracy-theories-swirl-around-the-death-of-antonin-scalia/

It also smacks of finding a guy dead from what is most likely a heart attack and lots of people going "meh, why bother dragging everyone over, lets just call it now"

pueblo

Good to see Obama is able to make a joke out of it......look on the funny side as it were...nothing sinister here....

Overheal

not exactly making a joke about his death, so much as a joke about the GOPs outright refusal to comply with Article II of the US constitution.