Senin, 24 Juni 2013

Journalist Michael Hastings Dies in Fiery Crash / Hollywood RAW FOOTAGE


Some of you may not know Michael Hastings personally, I don't know him either. But since I read his book "I Lost My Love in Baghdad: a Modern War Story", a story about the lost of his fiancee in Baghdad a year before the book was released, I felt him. I felt his grieve, his sadness, I also felt his brave, his fearless and his intelligence. 
My respect on him just went up after I read his article in Rolling Stone, "the Runaway General". The first thing came to my mind after I read that was "damn, this man is fucking awesome, but he is fucking messed up too. He gotta watch his back!". FYI, that article led to the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal, the head General of U.S.A Operation in Afghanistan.
I assume that Mr. Hastings' life would be full of terror afterward. 
But again, he wowed  me when he finally released the book based on the article "The Operator". He once again showed me that he was a fearless and brave journalist/writer/reporter.
He was a smart ones, very few people like him. He wouldn't stay quiet and stand forward for what he believed.He was sometimes invited by the mainstreams news for a talk show or a debate.
It shocked me when I read about he killed in a fiery crash in Hollywood, I kept following the accident story ever since. The more I read the news, watch the witness' videos, the more I believe that it wasn't an accident at all, he was assassinated. I can't tell by who, but I can tell why he was murdered. 
Hours before the car crash, he sent a panicked email to his colleagues about being investigated by FBI and was going staying low and need to go off the radar. He was also contacted the Wikileaks' lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, just a few hours before his crash.
He was murdered because before his death he was working on a story about Drone Surveillance in the US and it's speculated that he was researching Jill Kelley case, a story about privacy lawsuit by Florida socialite against the Department of Defense and the FBI. Jill Kelley alleges that military officials and the FBI leaked her name to the media to discredit her after she reported receiving a stream of emails that were traced to Paula Broadwell, a biographer of former CIA director, David H. Petraus.
Well, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I am just a realist. Maybe he was chasing by the feds that morning or maybe the crash caused by a bomb. Everything is possible. Michael Hastings was always be the government's enemy.