Why?
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020527&c=3&s=nichols
What?
http://www.assassinationscience.com/PaulWellstone.pdf
And
http://www.assassinationscience.com/LogicAndEvidence.pdf
(Both of those fine articles require Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Feelings...
October 25, 2002: Senator Paul Wellstone dies in a plane crash. The victims also included Wellstone's wife, Sheila, and daughter, Marcia; three campaign staff members; and two pilots.
Accident or assassination?
My own feeling is assassination: Wellstone threatened the Power, and it killed him. The plane "went down in bad weather", and both pilots didn't get on the radio to say "We're in trouble!" ... ? I don't think so.
That's just my opinion. Do your own reasearching and thinking, decide for yourself. Consider ...
1) No radio call reporting trouble from either pilot
2) Planes do fail, but they are not so fragile and vulnerable
3) Eyewitness reports: the plane was on fire on the way down
4) Weather not that bad
5) Such is the nature of the Power -- to kill that which opposes it
6) Convenient timing -- just before a critical election
7) Eyewitness reports: gunshots
7) Exaggerated reports of freezing rain and icing
8) Chief Pilot Richard Conry had felony record -- he lied about his experience as a pilot
9) NTSB spokesman is a former CIA operative
10) Bush regime despised Wellstone like nobody else. Wellstone was his own man, a genuine leftist, a Senator who spoke out against the Power.
http://www.karljones.com/who/w/wellstone/wellstone_death.asp
There was more at the time; the differences between what was reported and how it changed; but, hey you're right, no one in the US is in danger just because they have integrity and they speak out, even if the person is a popular U.S. senator with have a loyal constituency; so, of course it was all just a random accident.