Editor, Times-Union:
About two months ago, one of our former presidents, the Republican nominee for the presidency of the USA was the target of an assassination attempt. It was the seventh attempt on a U.S. President’s life in our history. Assassination attempts have common characteristics that are clearly present here.
Assassination attempts are usually spoke about in terms of success or failure. By definition, the attempt on Trump’s life was a failure, but was it? Aside from President Trump turning his head at the exact time the shot was taken, can only be explained by divine intervention. Somehow a 20-year-old loner managed to find an empty roof top 130 yards with a direct line of sight to the podium ... really?
In November 1963, one of our most famous and beloved presidents was shot in the head. Conspiracy theories about and the government has never released all the facts surrounding the assassination. The consistent fact is that the assassins are always killed before anyone can question them, the bodies are removed before anyone can examine them and the crime scene is always corrupted. Thomas Crooks’ body was removed almost immediately, his blood washed away and we’ve yet to see the autopsy report. I’m sure you’ll find the numerous abnormalities of this case tucked away in a file right next to JFK’s.
The assassin Thomas Crooks has been described as a loner. A 20-year-old employee of a nursing home and has no social media contacts, and other than a few “encrypted foreign accounts,” which our FBI can’t seem to gain access to them. The FBI wants us to accept their opinion that Mr. Crooks was a faceless unknown who outwitted one of our elite security agencies ... and I don’t buy it.
We are in the dark and will remain so until we rid ourselves of this Socialist infection of one of our political parties, a party who try to call themselves Democrats but have long ago lost sight of what government “for the people and by the people” really means.
Gerald Roach
Warsaw