The Michael Hastings Conspiracy

Freepers are actually very particular about their conspiracy theories. They require a conservative victim and a liberal perpetrator, otherwise why bother? Thus you can have birthers and Fast and Furious and Benghazi and all sorts of fun, but when it happens to a liberal, well...why should Freepers care?

Thus it took about a week of right wing bloggers hinting "questions remain" and "conspiracy theorists are suggesting" before Freepers engaged the speculation engine about journalist Michael Hastings' car crash, and even then it's a mere 100 posts heavily referencing previous conspiracy theories. In my opinion, things only got rolling with the story that his car was hacked - Freepers may hate school, but they are often technophiles.

BigEdLB remembers a conspiracy with a cleaner narrative

It is creepy ... Breitbart 2.0

Ann Archy and her capital letters show up:

ooohhh. the FBI SHOWED UP????? VERY, VERY INTERESTING!!! WHY THE HELL would the FBI show up at an ACCIDENT SCENE??????? To make sure he;s is UNIDENTIFIABLE and DEAD????

libstripper posits car accidents are differentiated only by speed.

He certainly had to be going at a very high speed for the fuel to ignite as it did. Remember Princess Di. Her vehicle, a Mercedes, was going about 80 m.p.h. when it hit a bridge column. She, the driver, and her paramour were all killed, the ultimate cause of their deaths being they did not wear seat belts. Her 28 year old body guard, the only real adult in the vehicle, survived because he was wearing a seat belt, even though he was in the "suicide seat." There was no fire, in spite of the high speed impact. Here, even though the vehicle was a Mercedes, one of the world's safest automobiles, there was a massive conflagration on impact. Makes one wonder, especially in light of Fast and Furious.

Jim Noble is trying to tie it all together:

The big enchilada in this matter is the use of NSA data to fuel IRS, EPA, OSHA, and other illegal harassment.

The connection is there, somewhere. If this was a Republican President, the Democrats in Congress would already have a proper investigation underway.

Also, if your aunt had ba**s, she’d be your uncle.

bgill just adds this to the paranoia pile:

How this country has changed in 5 short years. It’s not a shadow of what it was.

That pic of the burned car should give us all pause. Sure, it could be an accident but how many times does it take for someone on the verge of breaking news to suddenly died for it not to be mere coincidence?

FlingWingFlyer has very low standards for what a police state is.

This story is starting to give me the creeps. I never thought America would come to this. Of course, I also never thought this country would embrace a communist police state either.