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2011-03-03 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by tu3031 2011-03-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 He was whacked before he shot RFK. He still is.

He should stay where he is.

Posted by gorb 2011-03-03 00:43|| 2011-03-03 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Keep Arafat's little bastard in jail forever.

Posted by Water Modem 2011-03-03 00:56|| 2011-03-03 00:56|| Front Page Top

#3 He "doesn't remember" shooting Kennedy or five other victims...

I've read a bit about the assassination, and I believe him. Some of his behaviors, particularly his diary entries, indicate brainwashing.

Posted by Pstanley 2011-03-03 01:50|| 2011-03-03 01:50|| Front Page Top

#4 He may have successfully suppressed the memories. Doesn't mean he's not guilty, & still crazy as a bag of rats in a burning meth lab.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2011-03-03 03:50|| 2011-03-03 03:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Did anyone tell Bill Ayers?

Posted by Beavis 2011-03-03 06:09|| 2011-03-03 06:09|| Front Page Top

#6 1. In May of 1968 4 year old Sarah Heath of Skagway, Alaska scribbles a crude X on a map of California. (*)

2. ???

3. In June of 1968 Sirhan Sirhan murders Robert Kennedy and subsequently contracts amnesia and post-traumatic stress syndrome by proxy.

(*) Can anyone prove this didn't happen?

Posted by MSM 2011-03-03 07:36|| 2011-03-03 07:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Maybe the first jihad in the U.S.? It seems like muslim terrorism had a steady escalation after this for the next 43 years evolving into what we have today.

Investigation concerning alleged statement between two unknown males speaking in Arabic at Robert Kennedy's headquarters on June 3, 1968, in Los Angeles, heard as, "Well, we didn't catch up with him last night, but we will tonight."

The FBI report mentions a statement by Kennedy's personal bodyguard, a Robert R. Huntley who said he was clearing a path at the Benson Hotel during the Oregon primary a week earlier when he encountered two men, one of which he felt a gun under his coat. He said he pushed the man against the wall to clear the way. The man was later identified as Sirhan Sirhan. The other man was described but not identified.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-03-03 09:38|| 2011-03-03 09:38|| Front Page Top

#8 He's not a Muslim. He's a Palestinian Christian.

Posted by tu3031 2011-03-03 09:48|| 2011-03-03 09:48|| Front Page Top

#9 O.K. tu3031. Thanks for the FYI. I will retract my conspiratorial notions re this. The part about the steady escalation of terrorism for the past 40 years is not conjecture.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-03-03 10:26|| 2011-03-03 10:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Well, he is Palestinian...

Posted by tu3031 2011-03-03 10:30|| 2011-03-03 10:30|| Front Page Top

#11 After his arrest, Sirhan said, "I can explain it. I did it for my country [Born in Jerusalem]." Sirhan believed he was deliberately betrayed by Kennedy's support for Israel in the June 1967 Six-Day War, which had begun exactly one year to the day before the assassination. During a search of Sirhan's apartment after his arrest, a spiral-bound notebook was found containing a diary entry which demonstrated that his anger had gradually fixated on Robert Kennedy, who had promised to send 50 fighter jets to Israel if he were elected president.

I found also that he was Christian but tried Seventh-Day Adventist, Baptist, and the occult. Sounds like the assassination was more nationalistically motivated; in other words he hated the Jews.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-03-03 10:36|| 2011-03-03 10:36|| Front Page Top

#12 George Habash was a Christian Palestinian terrorist. He led the PFLP. (Or was it the PFLP-GC?) Sirhan's Christianity doesn't rule out his membership in a terrorist organization.

He may have successfully suppressed the memories. Doesn't mean he's not guilty,

It might if he were subjected to, say, deep and repeated hypnosis, over a period of months or years. Such a person would have no moral agency. But these are uncomfortable legal and political questions.

It's much easier to confine our focus to "one gunman = one madman." Why did he shoot RFK? He's crazy! How do we know he's crazy? He shot RFK!

He's in prison, and will remain so, at least until the next parole hearing. We have our ounce of justice. But the ton of malice, the supporting cast of dozens leading back to Jerusalem, Bucharest, and Moscow...

Posted by Pstanley 2011-03-03 11:58|| 2011-03-03 11:58|| Front Page Top

#13 Is his middle name Sirhan as well?

Mom had no imagination, if ya ask me.

Posted by mojo 2011-03-03 13:33|| 2011-03-03 13:33|| Front Page Top

#14 I once dated a girl that had the same last name as me though we were not related. If we got married we joked that she would hyphenate her last name.

That name is also occasionally used as a boys FIRST name. I almost pulled it off - Sirhan Sirhan-Sirhan.

Posted by Hellfish 2011-03-03 15:08|| 2011-03-03 15:08|| Front Page Top

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