DEVELOPING: SECRET SERVICE CONCERN AFTER LOS ANGELES TIMES COMIC DEPICTS 'BUSH ASSASSINATION'

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[ConservativeMan55]

DEVELOPING: SECRET SERVICE CONCERN AFTER LOS ANGELES TIMES COMIC DEPICTS 'BUSH ASSASSINATION'

[RonDog]

Ask Gonzo and others here from FR, who said things not even close to this picture and had visits from the SS.

See also:

Secret Service Knows When You Threaten or Appear to Threaten Someone , I Know!
			Posted by Grassontop On 04/19/2001 3:08 PM PDT with 65 comments Mrs Grassontop ^ | 4-19-01 | Grassontop

[veronica]

LA has a "both" papers? Not since the sadly lamented Herald went out of business. What other paper do you read besides the LA Times?

[b4its2late]

You're awake?

[freedumb2003]

Old enough to be frightened. A thread like this looks like a Bizarro DU thread. But I remember the YAFers from the 70's 80's, but I thought some of us had gone beyond him.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The bad guy is on the left!!!!

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

I believe the executioner in the photo ended up living in the United States. I think members of his family were killed by the VC or NVA prisoner, and it was perfectly allowable under the "rules of war" to execute him because he was wearing civilian clothes.

[jack gillis]

BCraggo66 and William McKinley in posts #44 and #45 pretty much nailed it.

If you run the idea a little deeper, it could even be MORE sympathetic to Bush: The raw, graphic content of the orignal image during Vietnam, shorn of its context, had a powerful effect on national sentiment.

SMILE. Sorta like the powerful effect the cartoon is having on this thread.

[Almondjoy]

I'll bend on the side of stupid questions.. you have no clue what you're talking about do you? He didn't say he couldn't voice his opinion.. he asked him a question. "You want to shut down a newspaper?" So easy their tiger.. and welcoming the closing of a newspaper because you don't like their views IS very clearly un-american.

[Guenevere]

well said!

[Mo1]

Want me to walk through it?

Please do ..

[StupidQuestions]

The First Amendment protects ALL political speech and that is what this clearly is. Some of us believe so much in the absolute nature of that Amendment that even crying "Fire!" in a non-burning theater should be protected.

It is, as Justice Hugo Black noted, the price of freedom.

[freedumb2003]

but I thought some of us had gone beyond him them. <<

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

He had to sneak it past the editor!

[A CA Guy]

The ones who killed the Vietnamese man was evil and Bush is made the victim here, but that doesn't wash this clean at all.
Ramirez should be fired.

[b4its2late]

He had to sneak it past the editor!

Of the LA Times?

[jonascord]

Freedom of Speech stops when you yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater. An individual who would write that, even in jest, would get an automatic 5 years. I think slamming the cartoonist, the editors who approved the cartoon, and the owner of the paper with 3 to 5, each, might serve to put people on notice that the Secret Service is entirely without a sense of humor.

Just as a rule of thumb, don't point a gun at the Pres. It seems simple enough, but dims are sort of simple...

[StatesEnemy]

You are correct... The page I found that pic on was an obituary of sorts.

The 'executioner' escaped Vietnam in '75 and lived out his days in suburban D.C. as a restaurateur.

[tuna_battle_slight_return]

"Totally irresponsible, puppy pad rag should be shut down...this is not free speech it it treason"

Depends on how you interpret the cartoon. If the guy with the gun didn't have "Politics" written on his back, then I'd be outraged. However, what the cartoon conveys to me is that Bush is/has committed political suicide via Operation Iraqi Freedom. I'm not at all offended, simply because of the way I'm interpreting the "comic" .

[DoctorMichael]

BTW.......Has Drudge ever put back the link to FR on his site yet?

Anwer: NO.

[The Wizard]

this is not opposition, this is irresponsible vicious media, and there is no sympathy for Bush no matter what the intelligencia would have us believe......this is a man KILLING the President of the United States....we all know what happens in a second from this photo, we all watched it on TV.......This is a killing of the President and the clown who did it shoiuld be canned and the paper that ran it should appologize on page one with a banner headline