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Op-Ed from Seth Rich’s parents
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:16 am
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:16 am
We’re Seth Rich’s parents. Stop politicizing our son’s murder.
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Imagine living in a nightmare that you can never wake up from. Imagine having to face every single day knowing that your son was murdered. Imagine you have no answers — that no one has been brought to justice and there are few clues leading to the killer or killers.
Imagine that every single day, with every phone call you hope that it’s the police, calling to tell you that there has been a break in the case.?Imagine that instead, every call that comes in is a reporter asking what you think of a series of lies or conspiracies about the death.
That nightmare is what our family goes through every day.?Our beloved son Seth Rich was gunned down in the early hours of July 10, 2016, in his Washington, D.C., neighborhood of Bloomingdale. On the day he was murdered, Seth was excited about a new job he had been offered on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
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The circumstances of what happened next are still unclear. We know that Seth was abruptly confronted on the street, that he had been on the phone and quickly ended the call. We also know that there were signs of a struggle, including a watchband torn when the assailants attempted to rip it off his wrist. Law-enforcement officials told us that Seth’s murder looked like a botched robbery attempt in which the assailants — after shooting our son — panicked, immediately ran and abandoned Seth’s personal belongings. We have seen no evidence, by any person at any time, that Seth’s murder had any connection to his job at the Democratic National Committee or his life in politics. Anyone who claims to have such evidence is either concealing it from us or lying.?
Still, conservative news outlets and commentators continue, day after painful day, to peddle discredited conspiracy theories that Seth was killed after having provided WikiLeaks with emails from the DNC. Those theories, which some reporters have since retracted, are baseless, and they are unspeakably cruel.?
We know that Seth’s personal email and his personal computer were both inspected by detectives early in the investigation and that the inspection revealed no evidence of any communications with anyone at WikiLeaks or anyone associated with WikiLeaks. Nor did that inspection reveal any evidence that Seth had leaked DNC emails to WikiLeaks or to anyone else. Indeed, those who have suggested that Seth’s role as a data analyst at the DNC gave him access to a wide trove of emails are simply incorrect — Seth’s job was to develop analytical models to encourage voters to turn out to vote. He didn’t have access to DNC emails, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee emails, John Podesta’s emails or Hillary Clinton’s emails. That simply wasn’t his job.?
Despite these facts, our family’s nightmare persists. Seth’s death has been turned into a political football. Every day we wake up to new headlines, new lies, new factual errors, new people approaching us to take advantage of us and Seth’s legacy. It just won’t stop. The amount of pain and anguish this has caused us is unbearable. With every conspiratorial flare-up, we are forced to relive Seth’s murder and a small piece of us dies as more of Seth’s memory is torn away from us.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:18 am to a want
Sorry your son was killed for giving DNC records to Wikileaks.
This post was edited on 5/24/17 at 8:26 am
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:20 am to a want
Oh lord, they submitted it to the Washington Post? Now we know they've been intimidated into silence.
Sorry about their loss but Seth's death is bigger than just their family.
Sorry about their loss but Seth's death is bigger than just their family.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:21 am to a want
Here comes a want with another WaPo link.
Let's make a deal. The loons on our side will drop the Rich deal when the loons on your side drop the "muh Russians" narrative.
Didn't think so.
Let's make a deal. The loons on our side will drop the Rich deal when the loons on your side drop the "muh Russians" narrative.
Didn't think so.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:21 am to a want
That's a well written op-ed. DNC has some good writers. I wonder if they also offered to write Seth Rich's obituary.
This post was edited on 5/24/17 at 6:53 am
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:30 am to udtiger
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Op-Ed from Seth Rich’s parents Sorry your son was killed for giving DNC records to Wilileaks.
Dude was probably heading to or from the basement of a pizza joint.....one where they play ping pong and bugger little boys....
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:31 am to a want
There's literally nothing that could happen at this point for the idiots to quit pushing this conspiracy. Rich could come back from the dead to name his attackers and these morons would say he couldn't be trusted because he has ties to the DNC.
This post was edited on 5/24/17 at 6:33 am
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:32 am to a want
Literally have anyone else be your family spokesman, like literally anyone else on planet earth.
I know this doesn't mean he was murdered by the DNC, and I obviously feel for the family, but come on...
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Bauman is a professional Democratic crisis public-relations consultant with the Pastorum Group in Washington, D.C.
I know this doesn't mean he was murdered by the DNC, and I obviously feel for the family, but come on...
This post was edited on 5/24/17 at 6:42 am
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:32 am to FairhopeTider
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Rich could come back from the dead to name his attackers and they would say he couldn't be trusted because he has ties to the DNC.
Sad, but true.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:34 am to FairhopeTider
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There's literally nothing that could happen at this point for the idiots to quit pushing this conspiracy. Rich could come back from the dead to name his attackers and these morons would say he couldn't be trusted because he has ties to the DNC.
you are absolutely, unequivocally 100% correct...
like i've said many times on this board, Trump could shite in his pants and half this board would blame it on a democrat....
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:35 am to udtiger
Y'all really are pathetic sometimes.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:36 am to a want
They let their son work for the DNC in a time a Clinton was running for President... Statistics matter, and they should have done their research before letting him work a job with those mortality rates....
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:38 am to a want
I requested a sticky. Would like to keep real facts somewhere prominent on the board.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:38 am to a want
Imagine if you will, YOU are Seth Rich's parents. If 10 months had gone by from your son's death would you in any way shape or form in public say anything about the political organization or characters associated with them, or you may also be shot in the back twice with no robbery? Would you deep down inside wonder why such a powerful and wealthy organization that strives to care about gun violence...never utters a word about gun violence or offers to put up "Information Wanted" signs and posters? Or even offers to contribute to such a DNC valued employees reward?
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:41 am to mmcgrath
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I requested a sticky
Demands that HIS points be stickied, wants all other opinions silenced.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:43 am to cajunangelle
Aren't you about done on this topic after that bullshite thread of yours yesterday?
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:48 am to a want
Some pathetic fricking people in this world that won't let these people alone. They are clearly closer to this than anybody else, but you nutjobs won't drop it. I'd say you should be ashamed, but most of you have no shame
Posted on 5/24/17 at 6:48 am to a want
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Brad Bauman, spokesman for Seth Rich's family
Why is this democrat SEIU thug, begolden to the DNC, PR guy-- all of a sudden shutting everything down?
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