Posted on 11/06/2004 10:00:35 PM PST by Reagan is King
Distraught over the re-election of President George W. Bush, a Georgia man traveled to New York City, went to Ground Zero and killed himself with a shotgun blast, police said yesterday.
The suicide victim, Andrew Veal, 25, was discovered just before 8 a.m. yesterday when a worker for the Millennium Hotel looking at Ground Zero from an upper floor saw a man lying atop the concrete structure through which the 1 and 9 subway lines run.
The worker, thinking the man was sleeping, alerted colleagues and the Port Authority police were notified.
But when they got to Veal's body, they realized he had killed himself with a shot to the head from a .12-gauge shotgun.
No suicide note was found, but according to a Port Authority police source, family members said Veal, a registered Democrat, was despondent over Bush's defeat of Sen. John Kerry. A second source said Veal, who lived in Athens, Ga., and worked for the University of Georgia, was also adamantly opposed to the war in Iraq.
More than three years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Ground Zero remains a top tourist attraction, the site rife with symbolism.
Visitors there yesterday reacted in different ways to news of Veal's suicide. Bobbie Jensen, 54, a Republican from Phoenix, said that while she understood how Bush's victory disturbed those...
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And then hollyweird will make a movie about him!!!
It sucks!
Do we need to have a fundraiser to buy them one-way bus tickets to Canada? We could call it "Thank God and Greyhound They're Gone!"
legacy media
First time I've heard that term. Right on.
Like most libs, the law is only for others.
This guy voted. That is SKerry.
That dumb-ass Kuznetsov is typical of the Dims. They talk the talk about democracy, but they don't really believe in it, and they sure don't get it. They are fascists at heart. This was democracy at its best. But according to them it doesn't count unless they get the result they want.
12 gauge is approximately .50 caliber
Prayers for the man's family. And that's all I've got to say about that.
Don't make a big deal out of it....move on....The media will play this up big time for the next week....like Abo Grabo prison......
"What a waste" sums it up.
Of course, "Bush" will be blamed, but if any blame lies
at a doorstep, it lies at the doorstep of the left, Kerry/
Edwards, media like CBS, Teddy Kennedy, Michael Moore and
all the rest of the purveyors in lies. Personal
responsibility to buck up and take things like grownups also
enters in here. What do these people think WE felt like
when Clinton was re-elected? One day, if they live long
enough, they may fully understand the evil of the Clintons.
This is great news! One down, 56,158,907 to go. I think I'll open a kool-aid stand in downtown Boston or Cambridge.
Make some money and let despondent people make a statement at the same time. That's just me. I'm all about 'win-win'
situations.
If Republican is elected in 2008 social security will be taken away, black churches will burn and democrats will blow out their heads.
That's all Kerrys fault! He lost.
Another victim of the Cult of the Left.
Had the MSM not lied to him, not tried to prop up Kerry (face it, if Kerry was 'viable', he wouldn't need propping), told it like it was, perhaps he might still be around.
At any rate, he better had made it to heaven, otherwise, the full folly of his decision has hit him.
On the upside - at least the guy wasn't caught smoking.
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