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Dwight, as usual your post is insightful and tongue in cheek. But, Booth was considered one of the ultimate actors of his time, very popular. It's interesting how the establishment always dis-scribes assassins as mentally ill, most likely to protect the sensibilities of the masses. Nine out of ten assassinations are politically motivated, albeit by people delusional about their self importance and outcomes of the act. Unfortunately it's a political act as old as antiquity, like war, and undemocratic.

It's an ultimate political act indeed, I don't hear any anyone dissing the assination of Sadam or Gaddaffi or that other guy you know his name he was on everyone's hit list for years. Hmmmm. Depends on your political view I guess.



Saddam had a trial and was hanged. I guess Qaddafi was assassinated, but he was already "dethroned", on the run, shot, captured, sodomized and then killed by a mob, must be a Libyan thing. But, most didn't want his end to be that way , trials always legitimize the end and are preferable. I'm not sure which other guy you mean. If you're meaning the President's drone "hit list", he would argue it's a battlefield situation, but there is plenty criticism from all sides.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. H. L. Mencken