Did Obama kill Andrew Breitbart? Alex Jones thinks possible

if i wanted to create scandal for my opponent this would do the trick... ;) maybe it's the neocons trying to regain control of the "white" house? they do stuff like that you know...
 
redrumloa said:
Oh dear... There comes a point where coincidences are no longer coincidences...
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Ironically that point was long ago.

5 seconds of research throws your claim of "Breitbart's coroner" into question.

L.A. County Coroner's Assistant Chief Ed Winter tells​
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LA Weekly​
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that Cormier did not conduct Breitbart's autopsy. "Only doctors" ever worked on Breitbart, says Winter, because foul play was not suspected from the beginning.​
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A further half a second and your claim of "poisoning" is in doubt too.​
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And LAPD Lieutenant Alan Hamilton says that Cormier's cause of death is very much still undetermined. Cormier apparently ran​
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a small autopsy business ​
out of his home, on top of the many chemicals he handled at the Coroner's Office. "Even if a substance was introduced," says Hamilton, "It could be accidental, or a suicide, or a number of things."​
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redrumloa said:
Suicide by arsenic? Really Robert? Accidental death by arsenic? Really?
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I siad his cause of death appears to be in question which, for now, it does.
You seem to think such a thing is impossible.
Jumping to unwarranted conclusions will not get you closer to the truth.

You also ignored the other, more pertinent point.
 
redrumloa said:
Suicide by arsenic? Really Robert? Accidental death by arsenic? Really?
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yes actually... there are a number of ways it could have happened for completely non-nefarious reason...

might have burned some treated deck lumber in house.... or even handled it on a home project and didnt know to wash his hands and wear gloves... i've actually seen people sickened by it...

Is the arsenic in treated wood dangerous?


Manufacturers treat wood with arsenic for the same reason you don't want it in food — it kills things, in this case the bacteria, fungi, and insects that would otherwise nibble on the wood. Although several wood treatments contain arsenic, the compound of greatest concern is chromated copper arsenate (CCA), a trifecta of dangerous chemicals that at one time (like 1990) was used on almost all the pressure-treated lumber in the United States. Although CCA is supposed to stay put, small amounts can leach out when the wood is exposed to the elements. CCA-treated garden borders aren't the only thing leaking arsenic into the environment; the same can happen with treated-wood mulch or chips, decking, and traffic sound barriers.
Of the chemicals in CCA, arsenic is the most dangerous due to its toxicity and ease of uptake by plants (although hexavalent chromium, which you may remember from the film Erin Brockovich, can be pretty bad). To find out how much arsenic could end up in your salad bowl via CCA-laden garden borders, University of Minnesota researchers tested carrots, spinach, bush beans, and buckwheat grown in raised beds built with CCA-treated wood. All the beds were at least ten years old. Soil and plant samples were taken at varying distances from the wood border. In all cases arsenic levels were highest near the wood and dropped off quickly toward the center of the beds. Example: carrots grown next to treated wood contained 4 to 11 times the arsenic found in those grown four feet away. Complicating matters was the huge variation in the treated wood's arsenic content — a ratio of more than 60 to 1 between the worst and best cases.
So what's the risk? In their worst-case scenario, the Minnesota researchers found that a 132-pound person who ate seven ounces of spinach would narrowly exceed the daily arsenic limit established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Separate tests by the Connecticut Agricultural Station reached a similar conclusion: if you ate more than 11 ounces of fresh lettuce grown next to CCA-containing boards you could exceed the limit. The actual amount of arsenic in play here is minute — just 92 micrograms in the Minnesota example — and let's face it, even for greens lovers, a half to three-quarters of a pound is some serious spinach. Still, the danger was enough that CCA has been banned for most residential uses in the U.S. and Europe since 2004.
What do you do about CCA-treated wood in garden beds now? At minimum you want to plant fruits and vegetables a foot or two away from the border. (The Minnesota researchers recommend 15 inches.) If whatever you're growing has voluminous roots or you're just the cautious sort, you can line the bed with plastic. Eventually, of course, you'll want to replace the wood with something less problematic.
Be warned, though: one thing you don't want to do is try to get rid of CCA-treated wood by burning it or sawing it up. Although reports of environmental arsenic poisoning are rare, those we do see often involve dust, ash, or the like from sawn or incinerated CCA-treated wood. One case involved a rural Wisconsin family that suffered a scary list of ailments including epileptic seizures, seasonal baldness, rashes, diarrhea, headaches, bronchitis, and blackouts. They were lucky nobody died — the arsenic level in some of their hair samples was found to be more than 100 times normal. Turned out they'd been burning CCA-treated lumber scraps in their wood stove for three years.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2889/is-the-arsenic-in-treated-wood-dangerous
 
@robert l:

Yes, insecticides can be a source and if he was running a "home autopsy lab," who knows what chemicals he was using.
I haven't even seen it confirmed anywhere that it was arsenic that killed him. (Apart from World Net Daily which is better known Christian-fundamentalist / right-wing hysteria than actual facts.)

Not that it matters.

Even if he really was deliberately poisoned, this whole idea only pushed Red's buttons because he was supposedly "Breitbart's coroner."
 
The WND article failed to make much of a case. If there was something I'm sure they could have done better - they have the motivation. Over all it's weak.
 
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