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ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY

FR:

Of course, "they" made movies about killing Bush ... but that was just dandy.

He's a Republican, ya know.

Firm

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or
Obama should be OK, To kill a President you need certain things.
A high powered smaller caliber rifle with a scope
A vantage point from which to shoot, at the right time and plae,
Complicity of the CIA, FBI and the secret service. (they get you the place you shoot from)
So, if you ever go out to do an assassination, bear all this in mind. Without all three components you are a loser. Even with all three components you are a loser.
You could be the biggest spy in town, but if anything goes wrong, anything at all, it falls on you.
Fuck that.
T

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ORIGINAL: BbwCanaDomme

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ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY

FR:

Of course, "they" made movies about killing Bush ... but that was just dandy.

He's a Republican, ya know.

Firm

I think it's safe to assume you didn't see Death of a President. It doesn't glorify killing Bush in any way. A big theme in the movie is actually that if Bush was assasinated the world would go to shit. If anything, I think it would probably discourage any assasination attempts haha

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Broadcast in 2008, Death of a President is a faux documentary news report, with talking head interviews, about the assassination of U.S. President George W. Bush on 19 October 2007, in Chicago. The television news report how a sniper fatally shot the president after his giving an economic speech at the Chicago Sheraton Hotel, before which an anti-war protest rally was occurring. A man of Assyrian origin, Jamal Abu Zikri, becomes the prime suspect.

Vice President Dick Cheney, now president, uses the possible al-Qaeda connection of the suspected assassin, Mr Zikri, to push his own domestic political security agenda. He calls for the legislation of PATRIOT Act III — to increase the investigative powers of the F.B.I., the police, and other government agencies, over U.S. citizens and resident aliens, and contemplates attacking Syria.

Mr Zikri is convicted of killing the U.S. President and sentenced to death — based upon dubious forensic evidence; moreover, the report indicates that the perpetrator most likely is Al Claybon, a veteran of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, who lived in Rock Island, Illinois, and who also was father of David Claybon, a U.S. Soldier recently killed in Iraq. The assassin, who blames President Bush for the death of his son, killed himself after Bush's assassination. Claybon's suicide note, addressed to a second son, Casey Claybon, an Iraq War veteran living in Chicago who was previously considered as a suspect, reads:

“ Everything I stood for and raised you to stand for has turned bad. There's no honor in dying for an immoral cause. For lies. I love my country, but I love God, and the sons He gave me even more. I must do the right thing by you and by David. George Bush killed our David, and I cannot forgive him for that. ”

Ten months after President Bush's assassination, Mr Zikri remains in death row, because government officials are deliberately delaying his legal appeal. Moreover, in his dead father's Rock Island house, Casey Claybon finds evidence of his father's planning of the shooting of President Bush; the most incriminating evidence is a copy of a top secret presidential itinerary outlining — to the minute — President Bush's Chicago whereabouts on 19 October 2007. The news report ends while the U.S. Government continues investigating how presidential assassin Al Claybon obtained that top secret document.

The final inter-titles of Death of a President tell the viewer that President Cheney's PATRIOT Act III was signed into permanent United States law.

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ORIGINAL: Lumizen

I would also bet that the number of threats has been exponentially greater for each of the past four post-electoral cycles.  Youngsters on here will probably not realize that there was no virtually no such thing as public internet access in '92, it was extremely limited in '96, common but not pervasive in all aspects of our lives in '00, and still far less than it is today all the WAY back in '04.  Of course there are more threats..  there has never been easier or faster communication available to just about everyone.  This is not to say that we have probably elected the most controversial commander in chief since JFK, we have.  But the ease of making these threats from 'safe' perches now allows us all to hear just what these hygiene-deficient idiots are thinking, rather than just having them mutter it through a tobacco-stained tooth.