In a comment at this article, EverlastingPhelps wrote:
Texas Art. 49.04 requires an inquest anytime someone dies while not being attended by a physician. There’s no way out of an autopsy. The question is how thorough the autopsy is. (When my grandmother died in hospice at home about a decade ago, there was a long argument with the ME about the definition of “attended by a physician.” They finally agreed that when your physician sends you home to die, which is what hospice is, he is still “attending.”)
I was intrigued, so I looked it up:
DEATHS REQUIRING AN INQUEST. (a) A justice of the peace shall conduct an inquest into the death of a person who dies in the county served by the justice if…
(6) the person dies without having been attended by a physician
But in the case of Justice Scalia, no autopsy will be done, however:
The man known for his elegant legal opinions and profound intellect was found dead in his room at a hunting resort by the resort’s owner, who grew worried when Scalia didn’t appear at breakfast Saturday morning.
It then took hours for authorities in remote West Texas to find a justice of the peace, officials said Sunday. When they did, Presidio County Judge Cinderela Guevara pronounced Scalia dead of natural causes without seeing the body… and without ordering an autopsy.
As official Washington tried to process what his demise means for politics and the law, some details of Scalia’s final hours remained opaque. As late as Sunday afternoon, for example, there were conflicting reports about whether an autopsy should have been performed…
One of two other officials who were called but couldn’t get to Scalia’s body in time said that she would have made a different decision on the autopsy.
“If it had been me… I would want to know,” Juanita Bishop, a justice of the peace in Presidio, Tex., said in an interview Sunday of the chaotic hours after Scalia’s death at the Cibolo Creek Ranch, a luxury compound less than an hour from the Mexican border and about 40 miles south of Marfa.
Meanwhile, Guevara acknowledged that she pronounced Scalia dead by phone, without seeing his body. Instead, she spoke to law enforcement officials at the scene — who assured her “there were no signs of foul play” — and Scalia’s physician in Washington, who said that the 79-year-old justice suffered from a host of chronic conditions.
One of the two greatest Conservative Justices on the Supreme Court, one of the two greatest conservatives living today, and we have no actual evidence of what happened to him. Notice “Law Enforcement officials” assured her by phone that she should rule it natural causes, and that no autopsy was necessary. Did they have any medical training? Did they really do that by just looking at the body visually?
I could have seen Justice Scalia at the restaurant that night. I could have seen my opportunity to strike out at the evil conservative movement, slipped poison into his meal when the server stopped with his cart, with Scalia’s meal on it by my table. I could have killed Justice Scalia by poison, and I would have gotten away with it, because “Law Enforcement officials” decided not to investigate, because this death wasn’t important.
Does that sound logical? Have you ever heard of Law Enforcement finding a dead body anywhere, standing over it having no certainty of what exactly happened, and saying, “I have no evidence of what happened, but lets just call this one natural causes – he looks old. I’m tired of all this investigative shit anyway.” Can you imagine finding President Reagan dead in bed, in 1987, and the Secret Service saying, “Lets just put “He Got Old” on the death certificate. Then no investigation will be needed.” They don’t even have a doctor look at the body? Sight unseen?
It gets better:
Guevara also rebutted a report by a Dallas TV station that quoted her as saying that Scalia had died of “myocardial infarction.” In an interview with The Washington Post, she said she meant only that his heart had stopped.
“It wasn’t a heart attack,” Guevara said. “He died of natural causes.”
What did he die from? His heart stopped. You mean like a heart attack? No, silly, I mean like natural causes. What natural causes? We have no idea – like natural ones. One thing we know for sure – it wasn’t unnatural ones, like it would be if his heart did not stop when he died, like zombie deaths.
You couldn’t make this stuff up.
This site has been telling people for a while now that things are not as they seem within some corners of the government. There are little shadowy corners of our government that have fully untethered themselves from the rules as we knew them. The law means nothing – they do what they want, and any other agency with jurisdiction which intervenes will quickly retreat and cease to interfere with their activities. State LE has no power, unless it is part of a fed task force these guys are associated with. County LE has no power. Town LE has no power. Other Fed agencies have no power. And nobody even knows who these people are, because they control the databases you’d look in to find them, and they’ve sanitized all of their own records.
I have no idea what happened to Scalia, I assume it was natural, but that is the idea. We don’t know, and the government’s eagerness to break all the rules to avoid acquiring any evidence of what happened is hardly confidence-enhancing. They render the rules meaningless over probable trifles like this. Imagine if one of Obama’s ex-staffers had killed Justice Scalia in the restaurant that night, he called Valerie Jarrett who saw the potential for a scandal, and she called an agent in fedguv domestic intel which she installed in that agency for just such a purpose. Would they break the rules for that? Should they be able to, in a free society?
At some point I expect those shadowy corners will begin to expand the extent of their operations, at the behest of some leftist administration in the future. Understand that when they do, the laws and the rules you think exist will not. You can engage them within the system – you can even win if you catch them off guard, but you will need to understand the rules of the game – there are no rules – and there never were. You are on your own.
I don’t write this and risk the credibility of this site for nothing. I discuss this subject because I think this is data which those who travel the path of advancing freedom will need one day – desperately.
Apocalypse – no rules necessary.
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I always consider myself open-minded enough that I don’t believe or disbelieve so-called conspiracy theories. Because when it comes down to it, most of the significant things that happen in government and in the biggest power-centers are never made public. Why should they be? Decisions, promises, messages off the record… things that never see the light of day because there’s no reason to tell anybody and get yourself in trouble. Hell even information about major historical events like JFK is still classified decades later. The truth is out there… we just won’t ever see it.
Very true.
“Found dead” — and when my husband and I heard that we immediately questioned it. The absence of an autopsy makes things all the more suspicious. Then again, we thought, the guy was 79, not 39. Not hard to imagine he simply died in his sleep. I don’t think some random person would have decided suddenly to do him in. I would guess it would have been pre-planned. I think he must have recently either found out incriminating info, or perhaps had threatened to further expose Hillary or ….who knows. Either way, having no autopsy performed certainly seems a sort of smoking gun.
The only reason I’d wonder is that liberals have been complaining that Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn’t step down so Obama could replace her. She’s 92, I believe, and had colon cancer, so it could be Ted Cruz or Donald Trump and a Republican Congress appointing her successor. That 6-3 conservative shift would last decades, and liberals were panicking about it. If a liberal waiter was delivering Scalia’s food, and had some of his own hypo-thyroid medication in his pocket, who knows.
I think it was natural, but the desire to not even look at possible alternatives is strange.
An Inquest is not the same thing as an autopsy. An inquest is a inquiry, typically a hearing, to examine an issue, in this case, the cause of death. An autopsy is an forensic examination of a corpse to determine cause of death. It would be interesting to see what Texas law says about requiring autopsy.
His heart stopped
DIdn’t one of Heinlein’s works have a character in custody, whose cause of death was “His heart stopped”? And he pointed out, that every cause of death was “his heart stopped”, since the definition of death was the permanent cessation of heartbeat.
After all, 79 year old men don’t just up and die. Tin foil and Rafael Cruz, they go together.
Maybe it was something sexual/masturbatory and they are trying to spare him the embarrassment of providing details.
That would be a possibility, and a very noble use of LE authority. Though he had complained of feeling sick when he went to bed, so I’d doubt it was the case.
NO, that is misinformation stated incorrectly by some news sources. The owner of the ranch Poindexter merely stated Scalia said it had been a long week and he was tired and wanted to get some sleep. That, then, was changed to ‘he was not feeling good’!
Oh pleez. the guy is 79 years old.
I took a class in the years ago where we discussed ho nobody dies of natural causes anymore. And it is true, we can generally explain why someone dies, it. May be a heart attack, a flu complication, cancer, etc. And they maybe be natural verse am causes like a bullet, or poison, but never is it called natural anymore. He was 79, but it is some surprise they aren’t delving to be sure there was no foul play, on the other hand, that sort of activity takes effort and money.*
I don’t know personally, and am … Sadly a bit apathetic on which way this goes. Let us however assume that a liberal gets on the court, which means, the predicted collapse is sooner.
*This comes under the heading of not attributing actions to malevolence which can more easily be ascribed to stupidity or laziness.
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