We’re Seth Rich’s parents. Stop politicizing our son’s murder.

tommyjo

New Member
Imagine living in a nightmare that you can never wake up from. Imagine having to face every single day knowing that your son was murdered. Imagine you have no answers — that no one has been brought to justice and there are few clues leading to the killer or killers. Imagine that every single day, with every phone call you hope that it’s the police, calling to tell you that there has been a break in the case.

Imagine that instead, every call that comes in is a reporter asking what you think of a series of lies or conspiracies about the death. That nightmare is what our family goes through every day...

Still, conservative news outlets and commentators continue, day after painful day, to peddle discredited conspiracy theories that Seth was killed after having provided WikiLeaks with emails from the DNC. Those theories, which some reporters have since retracted, are baseless, and they are unspeakably cruel...

Despite these facts, our family’s nightmare persists. Seth’s death has been turned into a political football. Every day we wake up to new headlines, new lies, new factual errors, new people approaching us to take advantage of us and Seth’s legacy. It just won’t stop. The amount of pain and anguish this has caused us is unbearable. With every conspiratorial flare-up, we are forced to relive Seth’s murder and a small piece of us dies as more of Seth’s memory is torn away from us...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...ac8b446820a_story.html?utm_term=.1534cedc7b9b

Aren't all of you "patriots" and "informed" voters who've been peddling this sh!t on here for the past two weeks so proud of yourselves?
 

This_person

Well-Known Member
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...ac8b446820a_story.html?utm_term=.1534cedc7b9b

Aren't all of you "patriots" and "informed" voters who've been peddling this sh!t on here for the past two weeks so proud of yourselves?

Now, why wouldn't you post this paragraph:

To those who sincerely want to get to the bottom of Seth’s murder, we don’t hold this against you. We don’t think you are monsters, and we don’t think you are terrible people. We know that so many people out there really do care, don’t know what to think and are angry at the lack of answers.

I would say that if you really want to get to the bottom of Seth's murder, you would want people to investigate the possibility it had something to do with his job. Multiple people have given good reason to think this is a valuable avenue down which we should travel in the investigation.

I agree that constantly going after the parents is harmful - they've given their statement, and that should be the end. But, if they really want to know about his murder, they should shut up and let the people looking into it look into it - regardless of where it leads.
 

PsyOps

Pixelated
Aren't all of you "patriots" and "informed" voters who've been peddling this sh!t on here for the past two weeks so proud of yourselves?

Proud for what? That Rich was murdered under suspicious circumstances? That Rich was in engaged in politics and decided to ALLEGEDLY leak DNC information to Wikileaks? How can something like this NOT get politicized?

Where "sh!t" lies with me is, when there is a Clinton a scandal, there is death. Someone ends up dead. You tell me TJ, what's there to be proud of there?
 

Midnightrider

Well-Known Member
The allegations are what politicized the death. Otherwise we just have a suspected robbery gone wrong as reported by the police.
 

Gilligan

#*! boat!
PREMO Member
The allegations are what politicized the death. Otherwise we just have a suspected robbery gone wrong as reported by the police.

Any idea why they called it that? Seeing how a) he was shot in the back and b) the "thief" took nothing from his body. Pretty dumb "thief", huh?
 

PsyOps

Pixelated
The allegations are what politicized the death. Otherwise we just have a suspected robbery gone wrong as reported by the police.

Your typical "nothing to see here" response, when it suits your thinking, doesn't surprise me.
 
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This_person

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The allegations are what politicized the death. Otherwise we just have a suspected robbery gone wrong as reported by the police.

I would guess that the reward offered by Wikileaks had something to do with it, too; as (now, much later) does Mr. Dotcom. The fact that this statement was made:

“Our whistleblowers go to significant efforts to get us material and often [face] very significant risks. A 27-year-old that works for the DNC was shot in the back, murdered just a few weeks ago for unknown reasons, as he was walking down the street in Washington, D.C.,” Assange said.​

lends a lot of credence to the idea that Mr. Rich had at least more than a passing acquaintance with Wikileaks.


Or, instead of "the Russians", was it Guccifer 2.0? http://thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/dnc-hacker-leaks-trump-oppo-report-647293
 

Midnightrider

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Any idea why they called it that? Seeing how a) he was shot in the back and b) the "thief" took nothing from his body. Pretty dumb "thief", huh?

its a lot more beleivable than a political assaination where the hitman decided to beat up his victim prior to shooting him in the back
 

This_person

Well-Known Member
its a lot more beleivable than a political assaination where the hitman decided to beat up his victim prior to shooting him in the back

I would suspect the beating had something to do with getting a thumb-drive or other thing that was needed. At least, that makes more sense than the thieves beat him, then shot him, then tried to get his watch off, then just ran away empty-handed.
 

PsyOps

Pixelated
its a lot more beleivable than a political assaination where the hitman decided to beat up his victim prior to shooting him in the back

Well, we know political assassinations have never happened before. :rolleyes:

"Beat up"? The account from his girlfriend said there was a struggle. What this means is this murderer approached Rich, Rich saw the gun and tried do what he could save his life. My suspicion is, Rich recognized the person. No, this is not from any sort of evidence; it's solely my opinion. Rich was shot twice in the back. I don't know what getting "beat up" has to do with it anyway. The initial investigation said it was a robbery. Nothing was taken from Rich. There was no robbery.

You don't see this murder suspicious at all?
 

Midnightrider

Well-Known Member
Pretty dumb "thief", huh?
I'd say pretty dumb hitman.....
Well, we know political assassinations have never happened before. :rolleyes:

"Beat up"? The account from his girlfriend said there was a struggle. What this means is this murderer approached Rich, Rich saw the gun and tried do what he could save his life. My suspicion is, Rich recognized the person. No, this is not from any sort of evidence; it's solely my opinion. Rich was shot twice in the back. I don't know what getting "beat up" has to do with it anyway. The initial investigation said it was a robbery. Nothing was taken from Rich. There was no robbery.

You don't see this murder suspicious at all?

I see it as suspicious as any other unsolved meeting.

The struggle doesn't jive with an assassination IMO. I just don't see how any assassin is going to let himself be seen, let alone get close enough to struggle with the victim, if he intended to shoot him in the back in the first place.

A struggle is much more indicative of a botched robbery/mugging IMO, and apparently in the opinion of the authorities.
 

Gilligan

#*! boat!
PREMO Member
He's too embarrassed to admit this, but is transparently obvious about it.

I've never seen progbots evidence any embarrassment or shame about their ridiculous narratives; that's probably what keeps them immune from the effects of critical thinking or facts to the contrary.
 
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