Some politicians have even hire persons to throw themselves with rotten tomatoes for getting the popularity

De Gaulle's Citroen after attentate
(Internet photo)

Kimmo Huosionmaa

There are the cases in the history, where political candidates have set up attentates against themselves. In some case, when the political candidate has been lost the popularity and the Gallup polls have shown decreasing interests of this person's popularity, the candidate has paid a couple of guys to burn the home or throw the rotten tomatoes to this candidate, that the speeches must not be given to the public audience.


In those situations, the candidate can prosecute the disorders in the case, that the campaign has been going wrong.  But in some cases, those setups have been very dramatic and more serious than throwing some rotten tomatoes against the political candidate. In the 1960's when the French colonies became independent some French military personnel created the organization, what is known as the OAS (Organisation de Armeé Secreté). The independence wars of the French colonies were extremely bloody, and then the wars were ended, when Algiers and Vietnam took the independence.


That organization had one purpose, get those colonies back to control of the French government, and the same time that organization took the goal of its mission to eliminate the President of France Jaques de Gaulle. The last purpose is what something suspicious because De Gaulle's military background was against the independence of the colonies of France. And somebody claimed that De Gaulle was actually the head of the OAS. Then some persons made attentate against the president in 1962, and they used very strong firepower.


In that strike, the president De Gaulle didn't get injuries. The case was waked up the question, how could those men shoot multiple shots with the automatic weapons, that there were no injuries for the targets, but they killed his motorcycle bodyguards.  In that case, somebody thought, that De Gaulle was hired those gunmen, to shoot the political parting to his head. In 1963 the man named Lee Harvey Oswald was arrest by the murder of the President of the United States John Fritzgerald Kennedy.


In that case, what was the source of the millions of the pages of conspiracy theories is one theory, what sometimes came to my mind. That theory is about the Kennedy hired Oswald to shoot the car or some persons in the car, what he using by driving thru the Dallas. The reason was to avoid the TV-discussion in his second election campaign. The person who was shot was the Lee Harvey Oswald, who has spent a couple of years in the Soviet Union and was convicted as an unstable person. If that man was shot during the operation, nobody ever saw any suspicious of Kennedy's campaign, but then Oswald misunderstood the mission and shot the president in an accident.

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