who knew that bush was accused of rape in 2003?

[aidenfire]

and that the accuser died less than a year later?

You can read about it here. The gist of the story is that a woman, who was confirmed as having dated George W. Bush as a minor, came forward in 2003 and filed a lawsuit against Bush. The accusations are far fetched--they include assault, rape, drugging the plaintiff and her husband, surveillance and threats. You can see the entire claim filed as a pdf, here. I'm not assessing validity, I'd just like to bring up a few questions.

1) How is it that the country in general has no idea about this case? It wasn't covered by any major news corps. The most prominent article I could find was the Fort Bend Star, the county newspaper the plaintiff lived in. Maybe she was deranged and making it all up. However, when someone files a lawsuit accusing the president of violent crimes, it seems to me that there would be coverage.

2) Margie Schoedinger died Sept. 22, 2003. The official cause of death is suicide by a gunshot wound to the head. I can't find more than a few paragraphs about the investigation, again from the Fort Bend Star. A woman accused the president of violent crimes and was shot in the head nine months later, and no one knows about this. My brother presented the excellent point that there are a lot of cases that are written off as suicides and not fully investigated; however, they usually do not involve the president.
2a) It said in the article that her purse and other personal affects were found in her car, while she was shot in the master bedroom. Minor detail maybe, but, why would she not have carried her purse into the house?
2b) Women are rather unlikely to choose firearms as their weapon of choice for suicide. It happens, certainly, but it is fairly uncommon.


This isn't the first time that someone has done something in some way threatening to the Bush administration and then died. An article here brings up fourteen people--mostly journalists and scientists--who brought up things like exaggerations of WMDs, election fraud, and Antrax being traced back to Pentagon labs. All of them died, all listed as suicides (like Gary Webb, who allegedly shot himself in the face. Twice.) or accidents (like the microbiologist who was bashed with a baseball bat in a high security lab).

Maybe this is all conspiracy theorist bullshit and coincidences. I'm not an investigator or a report--I don't know for sure what is true and what isn't. However, these are simple facts: Enemies of Bush and his administration have died. Investigations into their deaths have been unusually inconsistent. And the media has for the most part left them completely untouched. There comes a point when we need to start asking ourselves some questions about what's really going on.

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[lyras.livejournal.com]

OK, that is some seriously weird and upsetting stuff. It's almost unbelievable that an allegation of this nature wouldn't be reported all over the shop.

The only person I know on that list of fourteen is David Kelly, whose death was reported as heartbreaking but almost inevitable by the British media.

[kenboy.livejournal.com]

313 days left.

Her story seems pretty incredulous to me, and I think that's the main reason it doesn't get reported; there's a really good probability that presidents attract all sorts of ridiculous lawsuits from all sorts of disturbed people. This doesn't get reported in the real media for the same reason that the crap about how Chelsea Clinton is clearly Web Hubbell's daughter, and how Bill had Hillary's lover Vince Foster killed doesn't show up anywhere in the real media, either.

(That it shows up in my inbox on a weekly basis is a whole other issue. Pollsters aren't the media, leave me the hell alone with your Clinton conspiracy theories.)

I still overall lean toward the likelihood that Bush is a guy who's doing his best to do what he thinks is right; he's 100% wrong on just about every front, but I don't think he's actively evil and trying to cause harm -- it's more that he's just earnest, sincere, and misguided. But I really do look forward to the books that eventually come out, detailing exactly what went on here for the past eight years -- because I wouldn't be Spitzer-level-stunned to find out I was totally wrong.

[in-lieyw-of.livejournal.com]

I agree with the person above about why that particular piece of news didn't get much coverage, but goddamn, I hate that people in all sorts of positions of power will use their leverage for taking down enemies and the like.

Thanks for pointing this out. I never would've known otherwise. I'll post about this soon, too. Everyone has a right to know and make educated decisions/votes. Just. Ugh.

[boneskickbutt.livejournal.com]

That's messed up. But also, I read somewhere that people who see the world for what it is are often seen as being 'paranoid' by others and are more likely to come up with theories like the ones above. Even though those theories might very well be correct, people who see the world as it is are often more susceptible to depression and suicide.


But seriously that is messed up. But also, 14 people isn't that many when considering how many people know the president and how many probably come up with shit that he's done. Whether the press will report on it or not.