Posted on 10/23/2004 11:16:45 AM PDT by GeorgeBerryman
Edited on 10/23/2004 11:54:15 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
From the article by Guardian columnist Charlie Brooker:
"On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?"
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Charlie Brooker has worked as a writer, journalist, cartoonist, TV and radio presenter.
He created TV Go Home, a hugely successful comedy website that was turned into a book and a TV series.
His TV writing credits include the 11 O'Clock Show, Brasseye Special, TV Go Home, Unnovations, and The Art Show. He has a weekly TV column in the Guardian and is currently writing a new Channel 4 series with Chris Morris.
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This is not a vieled threat, it is an open threat. I am sure the FBI and Secret Service can do something about him, we have agreements with the British and Mr. Blair can stop this guy right now and he should. They can extradite him for one thing and if he is an American citizen it doesn't matter where he is writing from this is an asassination threat against the Pres. He can be prosecuted and should be.
Thanx.
The northern Alliance radio guys are talking about this crap now.
At one point or another, most of us wished Hussein would meet with this fate. Some of our papers may have even expressed the desire this would happen at the hands of his own people, to save us the bother of having to do it militarily. The point is, the dastardly expression by the UK Guardian isn't totally without precident.
The problem for me is this. Hussein's long track record of abysmal world-class despicable behavior was legendary. The list of nations he attacked, the millions of people whose deaths he caused, the numbers of his own people he, his sons and his henchment slaughtered extensive. How can any respectable citizen of the world, suggest that someone who sought to bring Hussein down by legitimate means, be deemed worthy of assassination for doing so?
Honest to God, this old world's occupants are sinking back into the primordial muck. Just because they can spout any old junk and get it into print, doesn't mean that they are not regressing to a time when rational logical discernment based on an advanced learned society was impossible.
As much as anything, the UK Guardian's voice, indicates the colapse of the global society. To it, and many people of the world, Bush is equal to Hussein. He is also equal to terrorist Osam Bin Laden in their eyes.
My God, where are these folks headed if not to total anarchy. This is not only a very dark time in our nation's history, it is a time when the bright light of global advancement is being extinguished at an alarming rate.
It is my opinion, that the left in our nation has allied itself with those who would turn out those lights forever. May God have mercy on their souls. I won't.
I just got off the phone with the Cincinnati Enquirer. They did not know anything about the column that ran in the Guardian, but seemed very interested. I gave them the urls to the Guardian but think I will e-mail it just in case they take it off their web.
I just sent an E-Mail to the British Embassy in Boston(my area)
BritainUSA.com and I just went to the contact section.
Sorry.I can't post links(technically challenged0
Good one! I hope you sent him your reply.
Indeed.
I bet Mark Steyn will have a very cogent response to this nitwit. I look forward to it.
Thanks for that link. They have an email contact there. I sent Charlie Brooker an e-mail now.Here is my email:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/columnists/story/0,,1333748,00.html
Dear Charlie Brooker:
My gosh, man! Are you mad? Suggesting that someone assassinate President Bush?
The last paragraph of your article:
On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?
I know you Europeans hate President Bush, but this goes WAY BEYOND the pale. Please print a retraction and an apology to President Bush and your readers for this horrible suggestion.
God bless President Bush.
Sincerely,
PS: I had the privilege of participating in the early voting process this last Monday 2 minutes after the polls opened. I voted for Bush for the FOURTH time: In 1994 and 1998 for Texas Governor and for President in 2000 and 2004.
Great site. Are they always so witty?
This idiot should be BANNED FOREVER from ever entering the USA.
Thanks! I copied my email I sent to this SLUG Charlie Brooker on #148!
So, you want to see our President assassinated?
Listen up, you bloody limey Redcoat ba$tard. America is OUR COUNTRY. You LOST that war. I was at Yorktown, Virginia last month, and stood on the very spot where Lord Cornwallis surrendered his sword to George Washington. And I laughed while I raised my star-spangled middle finger high and pointed it at Jolly Olde England!
When I read drivel like yours, I almost regret that my countrymen did not leave yours to the tender mercies of the Nazis SS. But those were the days when Britain had Winston Churchill, and God Save the Queen meant something.
We Yanks may do a lot of fighting amongst our selves, but we don't appreciate foreign yobs like you interfering in our affairs. We won our independence fair and square, and kicked your asses not once, but twice. All so we wouldn't have to take orders from the likes of you.
So butt out!
I`m sure it`s pi**ing in the wind, but to call for the assassination of a major world power must be a crime. Terroristic threats in the least.
"Do people really think that Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and others murdered around 100 million people in the 20th Century with their own hands? They had lots of help, willing to do anything to win and get power. "
Damned Straight. And these Limousine Leftist, Rolls-Royce Rebels without a clue, turn a blind eye to their brother-in arms and pretend it's not happening, AKA Stalin's Camp, Mao's Great Leap, etc.
But first they must "educate" the Masses and then disarm the resistors.
I think the Brits should arrest this guy for calling for the assassination of the US president.
OUTRAGEOUS!!!
I was just thinking that. Think Steyn will see or focus on it? He's my favorite and I would love to see him take this guy on...he'd chew him up & spit him out!
My letter to the scumbag was as follows:
You are the worst of the worst! how dare you write such an article of such suggestion! You are a sniveling coward hiding behind a pen of shear liberal folly! You are a disgrace to journalism and to the world! Do us a favor and stick that pen up your ass and stay the hell out of our elections! How could you write such an outrageous article with such an outrageous suggestion? It's a crime we have to fight terrorism by the sword and also the pens of people like you. You make me SICK!
I have sent a link to Hannity, Ingram, Drudge, Prager, and Medved. I'm sure it will hit with one of them if a few more of you follow up.
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