A Brief Comment on the Death of Mike Ruppert by Self-inflicted Gunshot Wound

We always knew it could come to this.

To write about Mike requires the tranquility of recollection but at the moment, all is turmoil.

Mike, you told us, “Evolve or perish.” Yet in Apocalypse Man you merged them, speaking of death as the ultimate evolution. One day we’ll all find out whether that is, in fact, the case but it’s not the message you used to impart!

Among the emails that cascaded in last night is a wonderful link which is sorely needed at such a time: Hope and Courage. Accompanying it, the following quote from Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s List:

“Where’s the electric fence?” Clara asked the woman. To her distraught mind, it was a reasonable question to ask, and Clara had no doubt that the friend, if she had any sisterly feeling, would point the exact way to the wires. The answer the woman gave was just as crazed, but it was one that had a fixed point of view, a
balance, a perversely sane core.

“Don’t kill yourself on the fence, Clara,” the woman urged her. “If you do that, you’ll never know what happened to you.”

It has always been the most powerful of answers to give to the intending suicide. Kill yourself and you’ll never find out how the plot ends. Clara did not have any vivid interest in the plot. But somehow the answer was adequate. She turned around. When she got back to her barracks, she felt more troubled than when she’d set out to look for the fence. But her Cracow friend had — by her reply — somehow cut her off from suicide as an option.

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6 Comments on "A Brief Comment on the Death of Mike Ruppert by Self-inflicted Gunshot Wound"

Makati1 on Wed, 16th Apr 2014 2:29 am

I salute a man who had the balls to do what he wanted with his life and did not play the serf to his masters. Suicide is the last freedom we have. It now takes more soldiers than the ‘wars’.

“Suicide is the 12th leading cause of death in the United States. According to the Center for Disease Control, in America as of 2013, more people now die of suicide than in car accidents. In 2013, the total number of suicide deaths was 38,364….A 2009 U.S. Army report indicates military veterans have double the suicide rate of non-veterans, and more active-duty soldiers are dying from suicide than in combat in the Iraq War (2003-2011) and War in Afghanistan (2001–present)….”

When the SHTF, there will be suicides by the hundreds of thousands in the Empire.

Meld on Wed, 16th Apr 2014 5:43 am

I feel very sorry for the guy, he did a lot of good work. In all likelihood I think his facebook page killed him, he was getting hundreds of posts every day from people telling him how bad it is out there. I was hugely depressed when I was following this guy in my mid 20s I can’t even imagine the levels of depression and anxiety he must have carried around with him every day. RIP MCR

action on Wed, 16th Apr 2014 11:55 am

Rest in peace.

Charlie Bucket on Wed, 16th Apr 2014 12:40 pm

I am not sure I believe in an afterlife but I sure like the image of Mike hanging out with Hunter S. Thompson sitting down and getting ready to enjoy the shit show that is about to ensue. I know the two probably didn’t know each other but I greatly admired both and they both took control of their own demise and did it their way.

Aire on Wed, 16th Apr 2014 1:41 pm

As usual BillT giving one of the more common sense comments are here. Along with these other ones. No “put downs” here… let’s keep it that way

Mark Ziegler on Wed, 16th Apr 2014 6:00 pm

You can still see by his facial expression and color that he is still suffering from toxic shock. We all need to detoxify as our lives are becoming more polluted.

A Brief Comment on the Death of Mike Ruppert by Self-inflicted Gunshot Wound

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