Now Daily Californian Pundit Calls For Assassination... Of American Citizen Paul Wolfowitz

Okay, he pussies out of it after suggesting it:

It is tempting to call for the assassination of Paul Wolfowitz. More than any other single individual, he is responsible for the deaths of nearly two thousand US troops and over one hundred thousand innocent Iraquis. He and his policies have undermined international peace and security, squandered billions of dollars needed for health and education, and generally caused international opinion to increasingly view the United States as a rogue state. His death would seem to be a measure of justice.

However, I don’t want to do that. For one thing, I don't believe in the death penalty. For another, it would give an excuse to those who want to take away our freedoms at home. They would exploit the assassination of Paul Wolfowitz to ratchet repression against those opposing their policies.

A good old-fashioned knee-capping of Paul Wolfowitz would seem appropriate, sending a message to those of his ilk that they are not immune from all the pain they are causing. However, that too would probably be counter-productive. The same repression would be unleashed and I am sure Fox T.V. would have lots of sympathetic portrayals of the courageous chicken-hawk.

The left is playing a dangerous game. Look at Baghdad, look at New Orleans-- see what happens when social order break down.

This habit of wink, wink, nudge, nudge calling for the murders of Republican officials -- so far, Bush, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz have been prominently named as targets -- is quite far outside the rules of civil political discourse. It's an incitement to violence.

I think the left is half in love with the idea of a fascist crackdown and martial law... otherwise they wouldn't be doing their level best to make such a horror come to pass.

posted by Ace at 01:08 PM

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