NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

[WilliamPitt]

Hunter killed himself.

http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/2/20/224622/038

God dammit. No.

[Andy_Stephenson]

1. Damn

Sad news indeed!

[uppityperson]

2. yes fuck

I knew what this topic was about before I clicked on it

[MnFats]

3. Oh, hell! One of the great ones! Shit!

This is awful, terrible, disheartening news....
Hell!

[leftofthedial]

4. fear and loathing

his demons finally caught up to him

[BrklynLiberal]

9. Or the BFEE hitmen........

[leftofthedial]

21. I'm saddened and I hate the bushgang

but Hunter was a ticking time bomb

[nostamj]

5. BUZZKILL

it had been a pretty good day too.

<sigh> FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <sigh>

[Wickerman]

VERY SAD

Thanks for the heads up. We need him now more than ever.

[Cleita]

6. There is no explanation why.

Don't real suicides leave notes? I hope someone has the courage to investigate this.

[WI_DEM]

13. that is a myth actually

Many suicides don't leave a note. Suicide is actually a very selfish end and by leaving a note you give loved ones an explanation for this course of action and in many cases that is not the case. Many family members of people who commit suicide live their lives not knowing and wondering if they could have done anything to help.

[Cleita]

16. Whatever, I still hope someone investigates this.

Too many suicides on our side.

[Warpy]

25. the article said he was a very private man

and that his family wants his privacy respected.

If there's anything fishy, they'll talk.

[tavalon]

36. He fought the machine for a long, long time

and still the machine grows stronger. There still isn't much choice for us out there. Maybe it finally just got to be too much.

[Runcible Spoon]

7. ***sigh*** Another great cultural icon dead this year.....

he was clean lately, wasn't he?

[fishnfla]

8. The pigs are out of the tunnel

kono is sad

[SarahB]

10. crap

I know the theories will come (probably rightfully so), but crap.
:(

[tridim]

11. R.I.P. HST

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda... You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning...

And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting - on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave...

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

[MnFats]

17. I always loved his comment on Nixon's death:

"His body should have been burned in a trash barrel."

[Modem Butterfly]

12. Myths and legends...

"Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of ''the rat race'' is not yet final."

[Lindsay]

14. It's so hard to keep going

in Bush's Amerikka.

I hope HST was clear in his heart and mind about his choice.

He will be so greatly missed.

And a big consoling hug for you, WilliamPitt. :hug:

[The Magistrate]

15. It Is A Damned Shame, Mr. Pitt

He was a wonderful commentator. Probably it will emerge that there was some health issue: he was a fellow who would not lightly suffer impairment, at least not impairment that was not chemical in nature....

"We march on a road of bones!"

[eShirl]

18. perhaps he had a terminal illness

and refused to die of it

[TrustingDog]

19. multiple shots to the head like Gary Webb?

[WarNoMore]

20. Dammit all.

I was eagerly waiting for his newest book (if he had one in the works). My son's idol.

[Kali]

37. mine too

the son's idol and he's not in a great place himself right now. This scares me.

[SheepBootHero]

22. Was he terminally ill with no chance of recovery?

No other excuse I can think of.

[theboss]

24. My guess is something with his wife

He was just married and she apparently wasn't there when it happened. He's always had volatile relationships with women.

[DWolper]

23. Hunter

As I posted in LBN, it is a great loss but not news that particularly surprises me. The Gonzo man lived life on his own terms at all times. It is only fitting that he died on his own terms. I do find it very sad that Juan had to find the body. RIP, Hunter.

[SheepBootHero]

26. A sad day

His 100% support for the 2nd amendment always impressed me. A good liberal with common sense, respect for the constitution and offering support for us to own weapons.

[ultraist]

27. "As you were I was. As I am, you will be. " ~Hunter S.Thompson

Being shot out of a cannon is always better than being squeezed through a tube. ~Hunter S. Thompson

[whistle]

28. William Pitt says.....

<snip>

Thompson is 100% of the reason why I write, and why I write politics.

No. No no no.

God dammit, no.

<end of snip>

Now William, write like you have never written before, please!

[TOOLZ]

29. A moment for a great influence

even my fucking TAGLINE to this post is a paraphrase of his.

thanks for all you gave us. I'm so sad.

[TOOLZ]

30. And to lose him now when things are getting so ripe

Who will be his heir apparent?

[FreepFryer]

31. His last project was indeed Bush-related:

His most recent effort was 'Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and The Downward Spiral of Dumbness.'

[pansypoo53219]

32. well, obviously i blame georgie

hunter couldn't stand the thought of 4 more years of this asshole.
sontag.
thompson.
my grandparents.
heh.
i will just blame georgie.

[donheld]

33. Very tragic news

We lost one of the best here.

[Old and In the Way]

34. Just reading about it now.....totally fucking bummed.

He's been a 35 year part of my life.

I suspect that the hard, keen edge of his life caught up with him. This brave new world is the antithesis of what he lived and breathed. He probably said, "fuck it".....

What a shitty day for me. My wife's mom had a stroke this AM, been to the hospital all day....come home and read this......unfucking real....

[tavalon]

35. This I hate waking up to

I slept late. I'm checking in on Will Pitt's posts while drinking my one, forbidden cup of coffee and this is what I find.

Shit, shit, shit, shit!!!!

I'm so sorry that your heart was broken, Hunter.

May you find neither fear nor loathing on the other side.