General George S. Patton Assassinated?

**Rex Brynen** · 12-21-2008

Originally Posted by slapout9

Anyway it is high time we had a thread dedicated to Conspiracies

In fact, I think that its VERY suspicious that we don't....

**SWJED** · 12-21-2008

Originally Posted by Rex Brynen

In fact, I think that's its VERY suspicious that we don't....

Shsssh.

**Rifleman** · 12-21-2008

You know there really was another shooter on the grassy knoll, don't you?

**J Wolfsberger** · 12-22-2008

Originally Posted by Rifleman

You know there really was another shooter on the grassy knoll, don't you?

I could tell you about it, but then I'd have to shoot you.

wm · 12-22-2008

Actually the hit was by Mafiosos who were angered by Patton during the campaign in Sicily--seems he refused to pay protection money for US forces on the road to Palermo. Te actual hit ma was later taken out by a fellow imported from New Orleans, an uncle of Jack Ruby, IIRC.

**120mm** · 12-23-2008

Originally Posted by Rex Brynen

In fact, I think that its VERY suspicious that we don't....

But "they" DO have one. You just have to be one of the "IN" crowd to access the special conspiracy theory forum...

**bismark17** · 12-23-2008

Back when I worked patrol, i picked up an elderly man who was refusing to go back to his retirement home because he thought they were trying to kill him. He was the stereotypical east coast Jewish guy out of the TV show Seinfeld. He was a total hoot. When he got cranked up he had the mouth of a sailor. Somehow we got talking about the Army and he told me that in WW2 he was a translator for a MI unit because he spoke German and Yiddish. Out of the blue he started in on how Patten got murdered. I'm a huge Patton fan but had never heard of any of that stuff. I wish I had listened more carefully....

**bismark17** · 12-23-2008

I would love a conspiracy corner. That was one of my favorite sections on Al Jazeera. They seem to have got rid of that when they went more mainstream with an English edition.

**120mm** · 12-23-2008

Originally Posted by bismark17

I would love a conspiracy corner. That was one of my favorite sections on Al Jazeera. They seem to have got rid of that when they went more mainstream with an English edition.

Oh, they didn't go "mainstream", they just renamed it "The Democratic Underground".

**selil** · 12-23-2008

The funny conspiracies for me are the "you won't believe this" police reports we read in academy. Real stuff so outrageous as to blow your mind. Usually if it is "an old saw" you can pick it out as urban legend. Then there are things that just so crazy they are true. Then there are fallacies that look great at first but violate lots of rules of logic. An example is the Clinton body count where you can fit evidence to a situation which leads to all kinds of wild speculation.

Unfortunately Snopes and Urban Legends aren't that great of sites to chase these things down due to the heavy advertising.

**bourbon** · 12-24-2008

Originally Posted by 120mm

Oh, they didn't go "mainstream", they just renamed it "The Democratic Underground".

Remember Free Republic during the Clinton administration? All the Clinton body count stuff, and how he was running blow out of Mena airport when he was governor? Portions of the left and right can go loco when they are in opposition.

The Paranoid Style in American Politics, By Richard Hofstadter. Harper’s Magazine, November 1964.

Hofstadter was wrong about Goldwater, but other wise nailed it.

This is the conspiracy theory de jour:
Republican IT Guru Dies In Plane Crash: Was Sought In Controversies Over E-Voting And Missing White House E-Mails; His Death Sparks More Controversy, CBS News, Dec. 23, 2008.

**bismark17** · 12-24-2008

[QUOTE=bourbon;62919]Remember Free Republic during the Clinton administration? All the Clinton body count stuff, and how he was running blow out of Mena airport when he was governor? Portions of the left and right can go loco when they are in opposition.

Hofstadter was wrong about Goldwater, but other wise nailed it.

Thanks for posting this. I will have to check further into this when sober.

**slapout9** · 12-24-2008

Originally Posted by bismark17

Back when I worked patrol, i picked up an elderly man who was refusing to go back to his retirement home because he thought they were trying to kill him. He was the stereotypical east coast Jewish guy out of the TV show Seinfeld. He was a total hoot. When he got cranked up he had the mouth of a sailor. Somehow we got talking about the Army and he told me that in WW2 he was a translator for a MI unit because he spoke German and Yiddish. Out of the blue he started in on how Patten got murdered. I'm a huge Patton fan but had never heard of any of that stuff. I wish I had listened more carefully....

Darn bismark ...that was the last surviving witness