Update II: I had a fit of the giggles after reading the feedback on this post. Some of you commenters really ought to lighten up. They have pills for that, you know. 
You don’t like this post? OK, I get it. It’s a good thing I blog for myself and not for liberals or conservatives, haters or fans. You’ll live. Maybe… 
Update: Commenter and blogger Doug says:
Hardly seems fair for so many to be picking on La Shawn for posting this…Is it hard to believe that someone with political power who rapes women would shy away from murder to protect that power?
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Last Monday was the 10th anniversary of Ron Brown’s death. At the time of his death, Brown was Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Commerce. Before that he was the first black chairman of the Democratic National Committee. There hasn’t been a black chairperson since, and I made much ado about it here and here.
At this point, I always have to remind the dim-witted that Republicans aren’t hypocrites because they don’t have a black person chairing this or that committee. Democrats are the ones preaching and screeching on the value of skin-deep diversity. Preaching but not practicing is what makes one a hypocrite.
Brown and 35 of his fellow passengers were killed when their plane crashed in Croatia. That’s the story anyway. The conspiracy theorist in me came out of the closet when I learned Brown may have had a bullet wound in his head. You may recall that Clinton’s presidency was rife with ethical challenges. Ron Brown knew quite a lot, I’m sure.
Jack Cashill, a writer and producer, offers a wild theory, although he says it’s “speculative in part” but “follows the evidence in full.”:
They make their way to St. John’s Peak and up the mountain. The bodies are scattered, and there are only a few black men among them. They pull out the photo of Brown and start checking. Brown is not hard to find. But what stuns the men is that he is farther from the plane than is anyone else. He appears to have crawled there.
The leader kneels down next to Brown and turns him over on his back. He is still not sure whether Brown is dead or not. He has no obvious fatal wound. The leader pulls out his pistol and fires skillfully into the laceration on the top of Brown’s head. In this part of the world, no one even blinks at the sound of gunfire.
Just as many witnesses to John F. Kennedy’s murder died under suspicious circumstances, so have witnesses to Slick Willie’s, including Vince Foster, who was the White House deputy counsel when he supposedly blew his brains out in Fort Marcy Park in Virginia. (Evidence of a cover-up?)
Have you seen the Clinton Body Count list, which has been floating around the Internet for years? Each of those suspicious deaths can be explained, I’m sure, but still…
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I’m glad somebody is still beating the Clinton scandal drum. I think the media dropped the ball on this one. It seems to me that they should stop inventing scandals with this administration and get back to this 10 year old case and other Clinton shenanigins. The war issues and immigrant issues will work themselves out, I’m sure American would rather focus on the Brown murder/death/?.
Have you seen the Bush body count list? It’s a little more recent.
Don’t ever condemn the left’s ability to believe any conspiracy theory a goin’ if you’re gonna be that gullible about the “crimes” of the Clinton family. I thought you were above all that, La Shawn!
Hey, I’m just putting it out there, people. I don’t buy all of it, but it does raise suspicion. By the way, I don’t read leftist blogs, so I know of no conspiracy theories to condemn.
The problem is that most conspiracies are very small. The whole idea of a vast conspiracy is ludicrous, as someone will invariably talk and get the conspirators arrested/executed/imprisoned/whatever. Clinton is a first class weasel, but the evidence that he had so many people killed is shaky at best.
You again. Never have I bothered to comment on “liberal conspiracy theories.” – Admin
Hardly seems fair for so many to be picking on La Shawn for posting this-I don’t find it hard to believe that the Clinton’s could be latter day Borgias. Bill obviously had the appetites of Cesare, Hillary the political…grace…of Lucrezia.
Is it hard to believe that someone with political power who rapes women would shy away from murder to protect that power? Or that a woman who would remain married to a rapist, keeping his secrets, would be too squeamish if her political life were in danger?
I have no idea if Brown and Foster were assassinated-God Knows, and will judge. But I’m not shocked by the idea that the Clinton’s are capable of being culpable.
It’s SPRING La Shawn… Be careful of ‘thin ice’..
“Preaching but not practicing is what makes one a hypocrite.”
Very concise definition.
>>But I’m not shocked by the idea that the Clinton’s are capable of being culpable.>>
That makes two of us…it’s so easy when there is so much power concentrated in one/two person/s. It could even be unintentional – as in a sycophant taking literally a statement such as “I wish I could get rid of XXX”. The problem with conspiracies is that if you want to cover them up, it pretty much comes down to getting rid of everybody who might even possibly have any proof, and proof hides in very strange places. I don’t expect to live long enough for even the Kennedy “conspiracy” to be proven (and you can’t prove a negative, so “no conspiracy” _can’t_ be proven), much less anything from the Clintons.
Clinton Lied, People Died and Felons Were Freed. But hey, he can play a sax, so he’s cool right?
Too sarcastic, and partially off-topic. – Admin
LaShawn, I have no love for the Clintons, and I trust either of them as far as I can throw both of them. But I trust whatreallyhappended.com — your source for the Clinton death list — even less. After a few minutes on that web site, I wanted to wash my hands and my mouth thoroughly. Among other things we “learn” at that site: 9/11 was an inside job perpetrated by Israelis with a time bomb who wanted, with the complicity of the Bush administration, to frame the Arabs; the damage to the twin towers is not consistent with the official explanation that they were deliberately struck by flying aircraft; anyone who criticizes Israel is smeared as an anti-Semite; the Republicans systematically stole the 2004 election via rigged machines, voter intimidation and voter suppression; and on and on. This guy is a nut case, and I’m disappointed to see you or any other reputable blogger give him a credibility that he does not deserve.
I have to echo some other comments people have made. I think there are a lot of valid reasons to oppose the Clinton administration and find fault with President Clinton but this kind of scandal mongering and rumorspreading is without merit or validity.
Let’s stick to facts and truth, not rumors and sleaze, Juliette. I hold you in high esteem and find you very quotable but this is just beneath you.
I love the smell of conspiracy theories in the morning (it’s too bad I stumbled across this in the evening, when the allergies have kicked in)!
Actually, if the major media stuck only to the verifiable facts about Bill Clinton, even leftists would revile him. Failure to stick to facts about Bill runs both ways.
There was no autopsy done on Ron Brown.
That doesn’t prove anything. However, can we at least agree it seems a bit … unusual? 60 Minutes has gone crazy over lesser occurrances.
There are a lot of things around the Clinton presidency that have an unpleasent odor, and Ron Brown’s death did have some oddities around it. I am pretty sure with Vince Foster what happened is he saw his career doomed with Whitewater and he shot himself in the White House, then was moved because it looked bad for someone to do it there. That’s as far as that one goes.
I love that men like you are too weak and emasculated to use their names when trying to insult me. It makes me feel good to know you have to sneak onto this blog under a phony name with your tiny tail tucked between your legs because you’re afraid to be a real man.
– Admin
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