Assassination masturbation

One of the reasons I grit my teeth over all the comparisons is … assassination.  Careful what you yearn for… Which is not to say America is not loaded with nutters, crazies, supremacists, racists, etc., of all sorts.  Some highly weaponised.

We have prayer circles out here in CA about it… I caught a long time local activist, Eve Patterson, last week on a PBS news program.  She seemed a little too pleased by the threat of it all, that a chosen one risks death…. Just my harsh observation. Distasteful as well as unwise, imo.

Probably my first and last assassination slurp diary.  And a good one to kiss the game off with.  It hits, along with the thread, all the points.  (And then some.  Don’t miss the messy minuet between denali and the sock puppet, VertheVik.)

My view, the right wing, the Eternal Government, has no desire for any more high profile martyrs on the so called Left of the Aisle. None.  They have highly effective methods of political assassination and very much enjoy employing those strategies.  No decades of adoration.

To really risk state assassination one would have to oppose war, seek to broadly organise the disenfranchised, organise the newly disenfranchised.  Lead a Poor Peoples’ March.

That sort of thing.

I am just listening to Samantha Powers, surely some sort of queen of the modern, soft faced war… she is on with Rose.  To hawk her new book on Sergio de Mello.  She says early on he was described as a cross between James Bond and RFK.

Be careful what you wish for.  She closes saying we will, for a long time, be dealing with “broken people in broken places”.

Her fondest hope, I do believe, is just that.  In our position as Gawd, of course.  No matter what face we wear.

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A couple of the last comments from the previous thread:

catnip:

More news from Serbia:

The British Embassy in Belgrade came under attack as protests against Kosovan independence swept the Serbian capital, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said.

Damage to the building was “limited” and embassy staff were safe, Mr Miliband said.

The United States Embassy was torched by Serb rioters and a charred body was found after the attack.

Reportedly one of the protesters. Not confirmed yet.

Feb 22, 12:57 AM

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JJB:

Turkey has invaded Iraqi Kurdistan:

Turkish troops have launched a ground incursion across the border into Iraq in pursuit of separatist Kurdish rebels, the military said Friday — a move that dramatically escalates Turkey’s conflict with the militants.

It is the first confirmed ground operation by the Turkish military into Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. It also raised concerns that it could trigger a wider conflict with the U.S.-backed Iraqi Kurds, despite Turkish assurances that its only target was the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK.

The ground operation started after Turkish warplanes and artillery bombed suspected rebel targets on Thursday, the military said on its Web site. The ground incursion was backed by the Air Force, the statement said.

Turkey has conducted air raids against the PKK guerrillas in northern Iraq since December, with the help of U.S. intelligence, and it has periodically carried out so-called ”hot pursuits” in which small units sometimes spend only a few hours inside Iraq.

The announcement of a cross-border, ground incursion of a type that Turkey carried out before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a major development in the conflict, which started in 1984 and has claimed as many as 40,000 lives.

The Kurdish militants are fighting for autonomy in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeast, and have carried out attacks on Turkish targets from bases in northern Iraq. The U.S. and the European Union consider the PKK a terrorist organization.

”The Turkish Armed Forces, which values Iraq’s territorial integrity and its stability, will return as soon as planned goals are achieved,” the military said. ”The executed operation will prevent the region from being a permanent and safe base for the terrorists and will contribute to Iraq’s stability and internal peace.”

Private NTV television said 10,000 troops were taking part in the offensive and had penetrated six miles into Iraq.

Of course, the MSM insists on using the Nixonian “incursion.”

Things seem to be spinning out of control.

Feb 22, 3:19 AM —

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