Newspaper editor calls for foreign country to assassinate US President:

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Yes, you heard this right, an Atlanta Newspaper called for a foreign country to put out a hit on the incumbent US President. This, ladies and gentlemen, is something we should all agree is completely and utterly indefensible. Even on its own bizarre merits this "argument" would qualify for one in the sense that dancing naked grabbing your balls and dick in the middle of an artillery barrage makes sense.


http://gawker.com/5877892/newspaper-editor-israel-should-consider-assassinating-obama

Three, give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place, and forcefully dictate that the United States' policy includes its helping the Jewish state obliterate its enemies.

Yes, you read "three" correctly. Order a hit on a president in order to preserve Israel's existence. Think about it. If I have thought of this Tom Clancy-type scenario, don't you think that this almost unfathomable idea has been discussed in Israel's most inner circles?

Another way of putting "three" in perspective goes something like this: How far would you go to save a nation comprised of seven million lives...Jews, Christians and Arabs alike?

You have got to believe, like I do, that all options are on the table.

Macro-explanation:





And the longer explanation: I believe we can all agree that if the idea is to have the USA fight Israel's battles for it that having the Mossad off the POTUS is exactly the wrong way to go about it, and that if the Israelis did do this their military capacity would be extinct in a week later, tops. I think we can all also agree that this guy in the most optimistic sense was doing an epic trolling, if he's serious he's seriously insane, right?

Comments

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Succint and accurate.

[soliloquy76.livejournal.com]

I hope Mr. Adler enjoys his visit from the Secret Service.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Seconded.

[existentme.livejournal.com]

I'm not even sure he deserves that kind of expenditure of resources, really. The article is a single page long and asks a simple rhetorical question in an attempt to point out a conundrum. I truly don't think that warrants a visit from the black SUVs.

Call me crazy, too, but I read the article and found it to be not much at all - much ado about nothing.

[stewstewstewdio.livejournal.com]

Call me crazy, too, but I read the article and found it to be not much at all - much ado about nothing.

I am calling you crazy, too. There are laws in place against threatening or encouraging threatening the life of the President. If there were any actual incident, there would be public reference to exactly this article and outrage that nothing was done regarding a threat like this, no matter how innocuous you may consider it.

Also, if something like this was published against you or your family, you would be sure that authorities would investigate it. You can be sure that this will be taken seriously by government agencies, as it should.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

It's not much ado about nothing, it's the editor of a Jewish (!) newspaper operating under his idea that the Israeli state is outside the pale of civilized action in just the kind of fashion to which the Israeli state would respond "http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StopHelpingMe".

[ford-prefect42.livejournal.com]

There is *nothing* too stupid for the US government to expend resources on it! And if they can do it while driving a fleet of black surbabans, so much the better!

[paedraggaidin.livejournal.com]

the crazy, it hurts!!

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Crazy's too mild a term, IMHO.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Isn't the Georgia GOP trying to get Obama off the ballot there, over the issue of his birth certificate? Considering Georgia nearly went to Obama in the last election, I guess they're really worried.

[ford-prefect42.livejournal.com]

It wasn't a "call for", or anything like it. It was speculation of something that the author thought that the inner circles of the Israeli high command might have discussed. Read the article again.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Um, no, it was a call for. And if he thinks the Israeli intelligence agency (not its high command) thinks that then that's a sign he's really the kind of friend for Israel that renders enemies irrelevant.

[oportet.livejournal.com]

With Obama/liberals in charge - I'd say the chances of us helping out Israel in a war are still about 90%. 100% if conservatives are in charge. Unfortunately, I don't think they have anything to worry about.

His 'option 3' is one of the few things, if not the only thing, that would keep the US from backing Israel - so on top of it being stupid to print/say out loud, it's also a bad option on it's own.

just look at them and sigh

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

Of course, he was fired a few days later. Nuts like this pop up in JawJa all the live long day.

Most sane people in GA all kinda wen't "oh, this isn't going to play well in Peoria." But in the end, we just let the wet fuses fizzle, leaving nothing but an interesting odor in it's wake.

On and in before Jooz

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Apparently his trolling hooked you, so it was a success on some level.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

It got him fired and an investigation by the Secret Service, I guess that could be defined as some level of "success" though at what, we'll leave open.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Nope, if it had I would not have even broached that it might be trolling and instead have made a different kind of OP.

[ford-prefect42.livejournal.com]

In later news, now *this* is what an apology looks like.

atlantajewishtimes.com/blog/2012/01/27/ashamed-and-regretful-an-apology/

[jerseycajun.livejournal.com]

You might want to post that again with hypertext.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

"Another way of putting "three" in perspective goes something like this: How far would you go to save a nation comprised of seven million lives...Jews, Christians and Arabs alike? You have got to believe, like I do, that all options are on the table."


Versus the "apology":

"...unfortunately poorly planned, hastily written thoughts that I never intended for readers to take as the actual beliefs of myself..."


LOL.

[kayjayuu.livejournal.com]

For the record, freedom of speech yes, hoisted by his own petard, yes.

I am not in favor of this kind of editorializing.

[onefatmusicnerd.livejournal.com]

Yes, idiots get free speech. I am not too concerned, the secret service has real problems to handle.