16-04-2014, 12:33 PM
Pete, that public statement you've linked of Rupperts was from nearly 20 years ago. If his comments bothered the CIA that much at the time to organise a retaliatory hit I'd presume they would have done it well before now.
Carolyn Baker -
"I understand the reaction to assume that this was an assassination. It was not. Mike was in terrible emotional pain. I know that because he confided in me every few days. Yes, on the outside, things looked pretty good. On the inside he was in hell. He has spoken of suicide on countless occasions and declared that he actually moved to Colorado too commit suicide which of course he did not. What we need now is not to be posturing with speculation. We need to be grieving our guts out for this loss and all of the losses of this planet."
Ruppert's colleague Jenna Orkin begins her statement - "We always knew it could come to this."
Ruppert's attorney Wesley Miller:
""The hardest part of this, for me, is that everything I did with or for Mike was in an effort to prevent this day from ever happening. Collapse Net was literally formed to provide a means for Mike to make a living. In doing so, he was brought back into a world of despair that he thought he had retired from. He absorbed the pain of the world on a daily basis until he could not take it any longer, and he left CollapseNet when it got to be too much. But that pain kept following him, and there is nothing that anyone could do about [it]for him.He told me many times that Jenna saved his life after Venezuela. I reached out to him in 2009 to help resurrect his career and his honor, and help get him back on his feet again. I know his death is not on me, but I still can't help feeling, unlike his experience with Jenna, that I failed…or that by "helping" him, it merely brought him back on his path of self-destruction."
I'm open to the notion that Ruppert was whacked if any evidence whatsoever circa the event - suspicious sounds, a witness, strange people leaving his building, a getaway car burning rubber after the sound of a gunshot - is uncovered. At this point though pretty much every statement from those close to him is suggesting that Ruppert was in a fragile state and had been speaking repeatedly of ending things, making it a genuine possibility that this 'suicide' was one that doesn't require quotation marks around it. I agree with you nonetheless that Ruppert's state of mind was partially determined by a years-long effort on the part of numerous authorities and agencies to make him suffer for his investigative bravery.
Carolyn Baker -
"I understand the reaction to assume that this was an assassination. It was not. Mike was in terrible emotional pain. I know that because he confided in me every few days. Yes, on the outside, things looked pretty good. On the inside he was in hell. He has spoken of suicide on countless occasions and declared that he actually moved to Colorado too commit suicide which of course he did not. What we need now is not to be posturing with speculation. We need to be grieving our guts out for this loss and all of the losses of this planet."
Ruppert's colleague Jenna Orkin begins her statement - "We always knew it could come to this."
Ruppert's attorney Wesley Miller:
""The hardest part of this, for me, is that everything I did with or for Mike was in an effort to prevent this day from ever happening. Collapse Net was literally formed to provide a means for Mike to make a living. In doing so, he was brought back into a world of despair that he thought he had retired from. He absorbed the pain of the world on a daily basis until he could not take it any longer, and he left CollapseNet when it got to be too much. But that pain kept following him, and there is nothing that anyone could do about [it]for him.He told me many times that Jenna saved his life after Venezuela. I reached out to him in 2009 to help resurrect his career and his honor, and help get him back on his feet again. I know his death is not on me, but I still can't help feeling, unlike his experience with Jenna, that I failed…or that by "helping" him, it merely brought him back on his path of self-destruction."
I'm open to the notion that Ruppert was whacked if any evidence whatsoever circa the event - suspicious sounds, a witness, strange people leaving his building, a getaway car burning rubber after the sound of a gunshot - is uncovered. At this point though pretty much every statement from those close to him is suggesting that Ruppert was in a fragile state and had been speaking repeatedly of ending things, making it a genuine possibility that this 'suicide' was one that doesn't require quotation marks around it. I agree with you nonetheless that Ruppert's state of mind was partially determined by a years-long effort on the part of numerous authorities and agencies to make him suffer for his investigative bravery.