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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The unprecedented campaign of scare-mongering and HATE by the left drove him to this. He really believed their lies and thought the world was coming to an end. The left should feel this is on their hands.
This is at least the 3rd dupe of this story.
> He must have already had mental problems.
Mistaking liberal propaganda and dogma for truth might fit
that definition.
Although the legacy media is trying to blame Bush for this,
the fact is that any post-election suicides are mostly the
responsibility of the DNC scare tactics. We laugh at their
hyperbole, but they really do frighten some people.
Sad story, I feel for his family.
He's sorry for what he did now.
he lived in Athens.
think REM.
QED
So you are saying he is/was an airhead?
Do you see how they devalue our vote? They don't think we deserve to vote. They are being hypocritical and are oblivious to it. I crying for a god while in '96 when Bob Dole lost and I never held Clinton in high regard, but I never felt as though my entire value system was being challenged personally. I just knew we would get another chance to do better.
"Maybe he felt ineffective," she said of the victim.
Classic dem style. Everyone is a victim...even at their own hand. Classic.
Exactly. It's all PP Diddly's fault. Might as well have pulled the trigger himself.
Well, he was a Democrat.
I don't - they raised him to be weak.
So what was the point of him going to ground zero? That Al-Qaeda has less of a chance to cause another 911 because Bush was elected? That his dream of another "Al Qaeda glory" is dashed? Oh wait, why am I asking that as a question? That`s all dim-rats have been complaining about since 911, that Al-Qaeda is being prevented from causing another 911.
Well that's two who lacked the wit to recognize Democrat propaganda for what it is. Fortunately for the world, most Americans saw right through it and held steadfast.
Twenty five years old. Brainwashed by the Left. Sad that he couldn't have been reached in time.
Speechless. I mean... really.
Someone on another thread said that DU has a shrine for him just about
Very sad for him. Actually, I wondered how long it would be before a Dem went this far. It sounds like lots of them are close to it.
The Dems could make some really interesting TV commercials for the 2008 election. "Vote Democratic, or else the little dweeb is going to do it to himself!"
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