More crashes and deaths of progressives

    How Some Progressives Die - Part Two


    I recently told a friend of mine about the blog I was writing. "Oh you believe in conspiracies," he said. He may or may not believe that conspiracies happen. I surely do. I believe that sometimes powerful people do get together to fix prices, commit dirty tricks and sometimes plot the deaths of people who attack the powerful.  For this is what this story is all about.
     In my last entry I wrote about car crashes and plane crashes that killed people. Here is the story of two men who raised thousands of dollars for environmentalist groups. Both died in plane crashes. Both were prominent artists.
    Henry John Deutschendorf changed his name to John Denver. "In the 1970's, Denver outsold nearly all other musical artists in North America," a music industry p.r. man told me. Denver's big hits like 'Take me Home Country Road', 'Rocky Mountain High' and 'Annie's Song' regularly topped the charts. After his musical career cooled off, Denver raised tens of thousands of dollars for environmental groups and acauses.
    And then he was dead. Denver died in 1997 when the experimental plane he was piloting, crashed. "He didn't have enough training on the plane he was flying," an investigator of the crash, said in effect. Denver's lack of piloting skills helped kill him. This was probably true. Still, a high profile fund raiser for Green causes was dead.
      The same thing happened to Toni Onley, the talented British-born watercolourist. Onley moved to British Columbia, Canada's most beautiful province. Onley raised lots of money for environmentalist causes.
    Onley died in 2004 in a plane he was piloting. "It's shocking news," said Jean Bailey of the Kamloops Art Gallery. The art gallery had displayed lots of Onley's work. Investigators said that Onley had a heart attack while piloting his plane. He blanked out in the plane and it crashed. killing Onley.
     This may well be true. Yet another big fund raiser for green causes passed away. I still wonder how green groups made up for Onley's death.