Friday, September 01, 2006

Assignation of George W Bush

Digital channel More4 (or Mo-Fo as its known in 'the hood') will be screening a drama/documentry which includes a mock assignation of George W Bush. Based on the BBC article below, it sounds like an interesting show:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5302598.stm

What ammuses me from that article though is the following quote:

John Beyer of UK TV pressure group MediaWatch said the film was "irresponsible".

He said it could even trigger a real assassination attempt and told the Daily Mirror: "There's a lot of feeling against President Bush and this may well put ideas into people's heads."


If you truly feel strongly enough to want to kill someone you dislike - even in America, it shouldn't really require inspiration from a TV show for you to think of such a general, obvious plan. It's not like American history alone doesn't provide enough history of how to deal with a president you dislike.

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