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'

[The Wizard]

there is no excuse for this being run. None.

[ConservativeMan55]

Excellent Analysis!

[BCrago66]

Whenever a poster writes something in big letters - he is broadcasting that he has absolutely nothing to say.

[WhiteKnuckles]

Link

SPRINGFIELD, VA (AP) - Nguyen Ngoc Loan, whose execution of a Viet Cong prisoner on the streets of Saigon in 1968 became one of the most chilling images of the Vietnam War, died Tuesday. He was 67. The former South Vietnamese general died of cancer at his home in Burke, a Washington suburb. He fled South Vietnam in 1975, the year the communists overran the country, and moved to Virginia, where he opened a restaurant.

On Feb. 1, 1968, Loan was director of South Vietnam's national police and the North Vietnamese had just begun the Tet Offensive, their huge military push southward. Firefights had broken out all over Saigon, and Loan's police were trying to rid the South Vietnamese capital of Viet Cong guerrillas. Loan led the prisoner, his hands bound, onto a street corner and in front of a group of journalists pulled his pistol and shot the prisoner point-blank in the head. The general told the newsmen that the prisoner was a known Viet Cong captain.

Eddie Adams' photo of the execution won a Pulitzer Prize for The Associated Press. NBC also showed film of the execution. Adams said yesterday that Gen. Loan's actions were misinterpreted because of the picture. "The guy was a hero. America should be crying," said Adams, now a free-lance photographer. "I just hate to see him go this way, without people knowing anything about him." Adams said the man Loan shot had been seen killing others and that Loan was justified in executing him.

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HTH

[b4its2late]

Yes. Drudge is a very caring individual. You know, the compassionate conservative type.......

[lawdude]

"You want to shut down a newspaper because you don't like what was printed?"

Problem is, I read it to support the assassination of the POTUS. Is that legal and proper? I suspect this might just be reason to investigate the bejesus out of him.

Wanna bet the cartoonist has had a very loud, very one soded conversation from the Sec. Svc. I just betcha he will be watching his ass in the future.

Now, if it was klinton, I just might alter my views.

[Guenevere]

#175..FWIW, it makes sense to me!! :>)

[Steel Wolf]

If memory serves, this is a police chief in Saigon executing a VC operative who had just been captured. He actually pulls the trigger a second after this picture. The VC in question was operating out of uniform, hence the summary execution, however the film is pretty shocking.

I don't exactly agree with the artists concept of trying to link the two situations together, however. I get it, but I don't entirely buy it.

[ConservativeMan55]

I completely agree with you. There can be NO justification for this. Those who justify this are the same types that justified 911 because of America's foreign policy.

[b4its2late]

Yee Ha!

[KCmark]

I wasn't here back then, but what was the tone of FR when there were shooting targets that looked like Bill Clinton?

[Prodigal Son]

Seems it's gone over some heads.

That's also a point too though isn't it? If the average person doesn't understand it, it's not very clear that it's pro or anti Bush.

At any rate, it isn't the issue whether it's pro or anti Bush for the Secret Service to investigate the matter. What they are interested in is a drawing prominently published that depicts a gun to the head of the President. I don't want the Secret Service to sit there and say "oh, he was making a reference to Vietnam and it's actually pro Bush anyway". I want them to say "we take all things like this seriously".

[jack gillis]

"As far as Bush-haters, I don't think that they will say more than "'Cool, Bush getting offed!'"

Then the joke will be on THEM!!!!

It's a cartoon, and I bet that was at least part of the response Rameriez was expecting.

[TheOtherOne]

As Miss Marple pointed out, you don't have to be "stupid" not to understand the allusion, and the graphic power is quite overwhelming.

No, the stupidty is not in the mis-understanding. I do that frequently with political cartoons.

The point is that people, whether understanding or not, are ready to get the cartoonist fired and the LA Times shut down, etc. The stupidity is about their reaction to something they don't like. I sincerely doubt that most of these people understand the concept of politcal cartoon.

[The Wizard]

and when a Freeper defends the assassination of the President, he should move to DU

[zoen]

yes he shot the guy in the head and fell with a gush of blood out of the hole in his head like a fountian on the street

[Howlin]

They were quickly removed.

[BCrago66]

And who is doing that?

[auntdot]

Sorry ConservativeMan55, the only thing that impressed me in what I felt was a poor cartoon, was the caricature of GWB.

[Commie Basher]

The Los Angeles Times should be shut down!

You sound like a Leftist plant. You may not be, but you're certainly talking exactly as the Left wants conservatives to talk. You're supporting the image of conservatives as fascists.

Most Americans support a free press, and will turn against conservatives if they think that conservatives hate free speech & press.