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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines5/06/2010 3:26:31 pm PDT

Eek!

The son of lawyer John Hemenway, also named John, was found dead of a gunshot wound on April 30th. The elder Hemenway is an attorney who filed a brief on behalf of accused birther/deserter Terry Lakin. He is NOT Lakin’s attorney of record however. Best evidence from legitimate sources is that the fatal wound was self-inflicted, and possibly accidental.

The wingnut-o-sphere, however, sees no possibility other than an Obammunist assassination. A google search turned up a veritable cesspool of crazy conspiracy claims, with Paulians and black helicopterists heavily represented.

A few sane posters are trying to stem the tide of lunacy at Free Republic, but they are badly outnumbered and generally ignored or shouted down.

The blogs are jumping the gun on this incident, as there haven’t been any news reports (yet) or any press releases (that I know of).

All we know is there was a shooting, the identity and relationship of the victim, and that local law enforcement considers it at this point to be self-inflicted.

One example that goes beyond that, is the blog at americangrandjury.org which titles the incident as a “murder”.

An editor there (or the listed writer, Bob Campbell of Nogales) might be asked how they came to their conclusion, before any additional and unnecessary grief might come to the Hemenway family.