On a clear, blue February morning 2006, Michael E. Kreca, a longtime writer for Right-libertarian sites EtherZone.com and LewRockwell.com--and who had been previously financial reporter for Knight-Ridder, Business Week and the Financial Times of London--was shot dead at point-blank range by San Diego police officers, on a very public street near his San Diego area apartment.

San Diego police were "cleared" of culpability by a District Attorney. Mr. Kreca was said to have pulled a gun from his waistband after officers asked if he were carrying a weapon. There were no witnesses, other than the officers themselves.

Scant reportage was given to the event. (Two representative articles here: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20060213-9999-1m13kreca.html; http://www.the-boondocks.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=19242, the original having "disappeared".)

The day after the shooting, a team of police officers arrived at the late Kreca's residence and carried out and carted away boxes of "evidence," including his computers. We wonder what San Diego P.D. was looking for; what it found, and how anything in his house was relevant to a supposed "justifiable homicide/self defense" situation on a public thoroughfare, where the alleged "almost assailant" has already been offed by the very police to whom he purportedly posed an "imminent threat"?

It is curious that no one at EtherZone.com or LewRockwell.com issued a response. This was a highly-capable writer, who had been researching, among other things, the CIA's MK-ULTRA experiments. Kreca was also a veteran of the U.S. Navy, exact classification unknown--although some who knew him state that he had worked on submarine craft as a skilled electrician. Kreca was born in Serbia and emigrated to the United States, date unknown.

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