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09-24-2004, 06:42 AM
http://www.nysun.com/article/2054
Some price excerpts (this may become the October Surprise, remember you read it here first):
In the Lair of a Man Who May Be Hunting Bush
BY GEOFFREY GRAY - Staff Reporter of the Sun
September 22, 2004
BAINBRIDGE, N.Y. - The letters were each almost 2 feet tall, inked like graffiti in spray paint the color of chocolate over an entire kitchen wall.
"DEAD MAN," they read, and inside, in the bull's-eye of this message in the abandoned home of the mentally unsteady man Secret Service agents believe could be on a mission to assassinate the president, is a photograph of George W. Bush possibly ripped from the pages of a glossy news magazine.
It features the president with a determined look on his face and his mouth wide open, as if captured on film shouting on the stump about his upcoming re-election.
There were more messages, too: antipatriotic, confusing, ominous, contradictory, mysterious.
They are the last trails of Lawrence James Ward, the lanky, gray-haired man many here in this small upstate village north of Binghamton knew only as an aloof guitar teacher who for reasons unknown was missing his right ear and smoked too many Marlboro cigarettes. He is a man with a criminal past that includes indecent sexual proposals, a man feverishly frustrated at the state of American politics, and a man currently on the run since a warrant was issued for his arrest September 15, according to press reports.
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Since Ward began to teach guitar he was perceived even by some clients as odd and potentially dangerous. When Hope Ives, a 47-year-old hospital worker, began to take her 11-year-old daughter Becky to Ward for lessons she said she felt "immediately uneasy" and wouldn't leave Becky alone with Ward during their weekly 45-minute lessons, which cost $50 a month. Once, Hope Ives began flipping through Ward's books and stumbled upon Neo-Nazi literature.
Some price excerpts (this may become the October Surprise, remember you read it here first):
In the Lair of a Man Who May Be Hunting Bush
BY GEOFFREY GRAY - Staff Reporter of the Sun
September 22, 2004
BAINBRIDGE, N.Y. - The letters were each almost 2 feet tall, inked like graffiti in spray paint the color of chocolate over an entire kitchen wall.
"DEAD MAN," they read, and inside, in the bull's-eye of this message in the abandoned home of the mentally unsteady man Secret Service agents believe could be on a mission to assassinate the president, is a photograph of George W. Bush possibly ripped from the pages of a glossy news magazine.
It features the president with a determined look on his face and his mouth wide open, as if captured on film shouting on the stump about his upcoming re-election.
There were more messages, too: antipatriotic, confusing, ominous, contradictory, mysterious.
They are the last trails of Lawrence James Ward, the lanky, gray-haired man many here in this small upstate village north of Binghamton knew only as an aloof guitar teacher who for reasons unknown was missing his right ear and smoked too many Marlboro cigarettes. He is a man with a criminal past that includes indecent sexual proposals, a man feverishly frustrated at the state of American politics, and a man currently on the run since a warrant was issued for his arrest September 15, according to press reports.
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Since Ward began to teach guitar he was perceived even by some clients as odd and potentially dangerous. When Hope Ives, a 47-year-old hospital worker, began to take her 11-year-old daughter Becky to Ward for lessons she said she felt "immediately uneasy" and wouldn't leave Becky alone with Ward during their weekly 45-minute lessons, which cost $50 a month. Once, Hope Ives began flipping through Ward's books and stumbled upon Neo-Nazi literature.