Call Bill Clinton “Mr. President,” but also call him “human crime wave.” Though he busted a gut getting his crime bill through Congress, over the last two years Clinton has been implicated in a string of murders and suicides that’s surprisingly long, even for a politician. Last month, Clinton’s crime spree finally reached Chicago.
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On August 17 Robert Armstead, 36, of south suburban Harvey, stabbed his roommate John King because President Clinton told him to. “He was watching the news,” said Harvey police detective sergeant Larry Patterson, “and President Clinton spoke to him through the television and told him to go and transform John King into an angel, and that’s what he’d done.” Armstead transformed King with a butcher knife, stabbing him three times in the stomach and once in the face as he lay in his bed. King died five days later. Clinton is not being charged.
As reported in News of the Weird, Army Corps of Engineers employee Thomas Iracki was driven to suicide last September by Clinton’s cutbacks, which included Army Corps staff reductions. Iracki, 36, of Oakland, jumped from the 12th floor of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services Building in San Francisco. Vice President Al Gore may be an accessory in this case, as coworkers report Iracki became “increasingly despondent” after Gore visited San Francisco and confirmed that the Corps’ regional office would be reduced by half.
