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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I wonder if there is any way we can encourage his action to other wacko Libs.
Hopefully before they procreate....
Mentally ill democrat, sad story.
How did he get a shotgun into NYC when they're illegal?
"It's a national tragedy," he said. "This election is devastating to all who believe in democracy."
Just stuff it Jeffrim. As if we need to be lectured about democracy from a Russian.
Was somebody using the Dangerous Republican Brain Wave Machine on the man? Fess up....
Aww shucks. DU lost another regular poster.
What a waste that he hinged so much hope on that elitist snob Kerry.
When he left GA, we tried to tell him to wear his tinfoil hat, but he refused to listen.
You can blame the Democrat party/MSM for agitating this man's demise.
As the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz said as she melted to the ground: "WHAT A WORLD! WHAT A WORLD!"
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"mentally ill democrat"
redundant?
There are certainly clues to that effect. He was a Democrat. He was despondent over Kerry not getting elected. And the hole in his head is a big tipoff.
One less here in GA.
He probably wouldn't have been reproducing either.
Old media are to blame--they have convinced those who are unstable of their doom--but a free people freely chosing their leader should not be the cause of a suicide. Yet, how long before Bush is blamed?
Shot gun - close range. What head?
I know this politically incorrect, but if you blow you brains out over an election you don't have much to blow out. Better kill himself rather someone else.
I worked for Sen Dole's campaign in 1996. When he lost, I wasn't upset, disappointed, but not upset. It was an uphill battle and eventhough the campaign could have been run better, we lost and got over it.
Demonrats have to just get over it, life goes on.
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