St. Louis Bomb Blast: Economic Terrorism?

Bomb Blast in St. Louis Parking Garage
Injures Prominent Takeover Attorney

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As they hunt for the person(s) responsible for a Thursday morning bomb blast that injured John Gillis, investigators are likely considering the possibility the incident might somehow be linked to the current economic crisis. And for good reason.

Gillis, is senior counsel at Armstrong Teasdale, a large law firm based in downtown St. Louis, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report published today. A bio page on the prominent law firm's web site attributes a number of "significant accomplishments" to the 69-year-old St. Louis attorney, including:

* Counsel to seller in $210 million sale of Nasdaq listed company in negotiated tender offer followed by a back-end merger;

* Counsel to seller in $500 million sale of Nasdaq listed bank holding company;

* Issuer's counsel in $50 million dutch auction self tender offer for common shares; and

* Counsel to boards of directors or special board committees in a number of negotiated and hostile takeover transactions.

Just after 11 a.m. yesterday, according to witness accounts, Gillis attempted to move a package from near his vehicle parked on the sixth parking level of a 16-story office building adjacent Gillis' condo-building home in Clayton, an affluent St. Louis suburb. As reported in this post yesterday, the bomb blast shook the downtown area and prompted evacuations of area buildings.

Considering the type of work Gillis has performed, the enormous amounts of money at stake and the heady personalities often involved in such high-stakes transactions, it will be interesting to find out whether or not this crime indeed has its roots in the economic crisis or if some other motivating factor — personal, professional, terrorism or other — was in play.

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ALSO at Bob McCarty Writes: Bomb Explodes in St. Louis Parking Garage! (Updated)

by Bob McCarty
image: Bob McCarty Writes
Source: Does St. Louis Blast Have Ties to Economic Crisis?

Barack Obama, Bill Ayers: The Obama Bunch

Barack and Friends
Red Planet Cartoons on Obama's Buddies
The Relationship Between the Man Who Bombed the Pentagon
And the Man who Wants to Run it

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“Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.”
–Obama friend William Ayers


The many questionable associations of Barack Obama is the subject of the latest Red Planet Cartoon.

Front and center among those is Obama's "good friend", Bill Ayers. Ayers went from being a leader of the Weather Underground into writing grants for Barack Obama, community organizer.

This is the first time in American history that a man (Ayers) has parlayed bombing the Pentagon into having a presidential candidate announce from his home.

Millions of voters are unaware of this connection between Obama and Bill Ayers because the Mainstream Media, as usual, is more intent on "protecting" rather than "reporting" the news.

RPC helps correct this situation and starts things rolling with the quote and cartoon above and then follows up with this great quote from Stanley Kurtz, National Review: A Cover-Up in the Making?

The problem of Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers will not go away. Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn were terrorists for the notorious Weather Underground during the turbulent 1960s, turning fugitive when a bomb — designed to kill army officers in New Jersey — accidentally exploded in a New York townhouse. Prior to that, Ayers and his cohorts succeeded in bombing the Pentagon. Ayers and Dohrn remain unrepentant for their terrorist past. Ayers was pictured in a 2001 article for Chicago magazine, stomping on an American flag, and told The New York Times just before 9/11 that the notion of the United States as a just and fair and decent place “makes me want to puke.” Although Obama actually launched his political career at an event at Ayers’s and Dohrn’s home, Obama has dismissed Ayers as just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” and “not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.” For his part, Ayers refuses to discuss his relationship with Obama.

Red Planet then adds a McCain video on Ayers and Obama and its fine collection of info links, including one to DBKP's The ‘Tangential’ Bill Ayers. All the links are chocked full of info on the topic, but Bob Owens: The Ayers-Weatherman Terrorist Attack as It Might Have Happened is particularly good.

Will the media investigate the years-long connection between a man who bombed the Pentagon and the man who wants to run it?

Our prediction: Inside the tank for Obama is a hard place to begin an investigation.

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by Mondo
image: Red Planet Cartoons
Source: Barack and Friends