Hunter And Hunted
As one travels through life, it helps to find, early, some of the really smart people, and keep up with them. Even though they don't have all of the answers, they can save you years of wandering in the desert.
Case in point: Hunter S. Thompson, who wrote the brilliant “Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72”. Hunter wondered, and tried to figure out, how in the world America picked Richard Nixon over George McGovern. Interestingly, Hunter didn't explore, at least not publicly, the possibility that maybe they didn't. That for another day.
“Fear And Loathing” ripped away the fake high school democracy textbook painting, and got down to the dark underbelly of American politics. And it was great finding an articulate writer that shared a deep rage over someone that bombed the Hell out of Southeast Asia getting another four years to commit more mass murder.
Hunter saw how things were deteriorating. For example:
"Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him."
--Hunter S. Thompson (2004)
Often, he revealed truths in subtle and cryptic ways. While he did some drugs, I always thought there was a lot of embellishment, both to keep the story entertaining, and to get the truth out there while creating a cloud of, “the rantings of a drug-filled lunatic”. Early on, Hunter let those of us who were paying attention in on a little secret:
"If I'd written the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people--including me--would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."
--Hunter S. Thompson
Rolling Stone, February 15, 1973
From the outset, there were holes in the story that Hunter had committed suicide on February 20, 2005. Jeremy Kuzmarov's article, Linked below, provides some details that I haven't seen before, but I've made it a point to monitor The Official Story for any deviations/contradictions from the moment Hunter's death was announced. The article mainly provides (for me, but much of the information will be new to those not following Hunter's untimely demise for the past 18 years) a nice summary of the mysteries, and focuses on the likely reason for an assassination: Investigating—and Hunter was a genuine investigative journalist—9/11.