See anything unusual about this list of assassinated politicians?

[ck4829]

Ahmed Abdallah - Conservative
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Abdallah

Salvador Allende - Socialist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende

Hafizullah Amin - Marxist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafizullah_Amin

Benigno Aquino Jr. - Liberal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benigno_Aquino_Jr.

Carlos Castillo Armas - Fascist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Castillo_Armas

Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike - Socialist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_West_Ridgeway_Dias_Bandaranaike

Fernando Buesa - Socialist (Killed by ETA Terrorists BTW)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Buesa

Tommy Burks - Conservative (Killed by another Conservative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Burks

Armand Calinescu - Liberal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_C%C4%83linescu

Lord Frederick Cavendish - Liberal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Frederick_Cavendish

Dany Chamoun - Liberal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dany_Chamoun

André Cools - Socialist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Cools

Antonio Canovas del Castillo - Conservative
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_C%C3%A1novas_del_Castillo

Zoran Dindiæ - Socialist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoran_%C4%90in%C4%91i%C4%87

Engelbert Dollfuss - Conservative Dictator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbert_Dollfuss

Gabriel Garcia Moreno - Conservative
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_Moreno

Bachir Gemayel - RW'er
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachir_Gemayel

Kamal Jumblatt - Socialist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamal_Jumblatt

Laurent-Désiré Kabila - Marxist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent-D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9_Kabila

JFK - Liberal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy

Mohammed Daoud Khan - Progressive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Daoud_Khan

Gregoris Lambrakis - Leftist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregoris_Lambrakis

Pierre Laporte - Liberal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Laporte

Abraham Lincoln - Liberal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln

Giacomo Matteotti - Socialist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Matteotti

Thomas Joseph Mboya - Liberal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Joseph_Mboya

William McKinley - More Liberal than William Jennings Bryan (who was a Democrat)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley#Presidency

Mariano Melgarejo - Fascist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano_Melgarejo

Harvey Milk - Liberal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Milk

René Moawad - Moderate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Moawad

Aldo Moro - Moderate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Moro

Gabriel Narutowicz - Everybody liked him... except for the RW'ers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Narutowicz

Airey Neave - Conservative
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airey_Neave

Marien Ngouabi - Communist Dictator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marien_Ngouabi

Alvaro Obregón - Pro Separation of Church and State, and that is why he was killed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_Obreg%C3%B3n

Ranasinghe Premadasa - Conservative
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranasinghe_Premadasa

Louis Rwagasore - Progressive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Rwagasore

Ali Soilih - Socialist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Soilih

Anastasio Somoza Garcia - RW Dictator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasio_Somoza_Garc%C3%ADa

Pyotr Stolypin - Conservative
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Stolypin

William R. Tolbert, Jr. - Liberal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Tolbert%2C_Jr.

François (Ngarta) Tombalbaye - Liberal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_%28Ngarta%29_Tombalbaye

Rafael Leónidas Trujillo - RW'er
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Le%C3%B3nidas_Trujillo

Murdered Politicians
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Murdered_politicians

(BTW, I did skip people, but only because I was not sure of their ideology.)

[KingFlorez]

1. Not surprising

Right-wingers do tend to display more violence toward leaders they don't like

[wakeme2008]

2. Plus remember how many attempts to kill Bill Clinton

ZERO as I remember.

[onehandle]

3. Uh...Airplane crashed into White House grounds...

Guy with automatic rifle firing into the grounds in broad daylight. They picked slugs out of the White House.

Many plots to kill him in the freeper crowd found out. Real ones, not the fake ones that Karl comes up with for smirk.

[ck4829]

5. Don't forget Al Qaeda had him on a hitlist as a part of Operation Bojinka

[wakeme2008]

21. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz nt

[wakeme2008]

22. You got to be joking that was not a real attempt. nt

[NJCher]

6. death by slander for BC

Cher

[pitohui]

26. several attempts were made on Clinton's life

he's lucky to be alive, can't even remember them all now but a few moment's review of the history of the 90s should set you up

[Midnight Rambler]

4. Forgot Robert Kennedy

[ck4829]

8. The list is incomplete

There's also Olof Palme too who is not on the list.

[MattSWin]

7. I'm not sure what you're trying to say..

For instance wasn't Amin killed in the soviet invasion of Afghanistan?

[ck4829]

9. Yes, he refused the USSR.

[MattSWin]

14. I'm not sure I agree that there are more

Right-wing assassins than left-wing assassins. Nowadays without Soviet backing I think there are less resources for left-wing assassins. Right-wingers have business, landowners, etc. to back them.

[coloradodem2005]

10. Are you saying that more liberals have been assassinated than conservative

?

Yeah. I guess so.

[RandomKoolzip]

11. McKinely was liberal?!

[ck4829]

13. I didn't say he was a Liberal, but I said that he was Liberal compared...

to his Political Opponent.

[pnorman]

24. That list is flawed, as had been commented,

by the absence of such prominent names as RFK and Olaf Palme. But McKinley a "liberal as compared to his Political opponent" ??? I don't know whether to :rofl:, :cry: or :puke:

Yes, I'm well familiar with the role William Jennings Bryan played in the Scopes "Monkey Trial" 30 years later. But that 1896 Election was as clear an example of Corporate America vs Farmers, Labor, and the Common Man. Also, McKinley's assasin, unlike some on that list, was unambiguously identified. Although clearly deranged and with no real connection with the anarchist movement, he was an avowed anarchist ... ie: of the "left".

Otherwise, it was a worthwhile compilation, and I'll study it at liesure later on.

pnorman

[MisterP]

27. Bryan actually was liberal in 1896--it was after Wilson that he

went from a plain preacher to fundamentalist

[applegrove]

12. Yup. There are nutbombs everywhere - Stalin was one mean mother-fucker -

but yes - the right wing are the more likely to murder political opponents as that is what fascists do. The left were more likely to get power by election or populist war.

IMHO

Still - the socialists were dangerous in their own way in that they made their countries terribly poor when they didn't have to be.

[MattSWin]

16. I'm not sure about that..

Left-wing terrorist groups like Baader-Meinhoff sure committed their share of violence. They were not democrats.

[WinkyDink]

17. assassinations, not random murders,

is the topic.

[applegrove]

18. Terrorists in the 1970s were notoriously upper middle class kids with

a chip on their sholder. That is true. Partially true today though much Islamist terrorism uses the vulnerable poor or unmarried or teenagers as the suicide bombers. Bin Laden is a good example of this.

But you have to admit that the political leaders of the centre & the left were idealistic and not prone to getting power 'against the best interests of the people' which meant they may have had an easier time getting elected (than the right wingers) thus why their charismatic leaders were the targets of kooks and palace plots.

I don't think everyone on the list of the assasinated was an angel.

[MattSWin]

23. well I agree...

I'm betting we won't ever see a Social Democrat assassin taking out a conservative politician or even doing a John Cornyn routine.

The Right tends to be getting more radical as the left really mellows out.

[in_cog_ni_to]

15. And to think there's more SUSPECTED assassinations.

Paul Wellstone.....Progressive

Mel Carnahan.....Liberal

And attempted assassinations

Leahy and Daschle......Liberals


Don't forget Torrijos.

This is from John Perkins, author of "Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man" and here's part of an interview he did with Amy Goodman. The link is to a Larry Flynt.com article.
<snip>
Omar Torrijos had signed the Canal Treaty with Carter in 1978. It was a highly contended issue. It passed Congress by only one vote.

Torrijos then went ahead and negotiated with the Japanese. The Japanese wanted to finance and construct a sea-level canal in Panama. Torrijos talked to them about this, which very much upset the Bechtel Corporation, whose president was George Schultz and whose senior counsel was Casper Weinberger.

When Carter was thrown out-and that's an interesting story how that actually happened-when he lost the election, Reagan came in, and Schultz came in as secretary of state from Bechtel. Weinberger came from Bechtel to be secretary of defense, and they were extremely angry at Torrijos. They tried to get him to renegotiate the Canal Treaty and not to talk to the Japanese. He adamantly refused.

Torrijos had his problems, but he was a very principled man. He was an amazing man, Torrijos. And so he died in a fiery airplane crash, which was to a tape recorder filled with explosives.

I was in Panama. I had been working with him. I knew that we economic hit men had failed. I knew the jackals were closing in on him, and the next thing his plane exploded. There's no question in my mind that it was CIA-sanctioned, and many Latin American investigators have come to the same conclusion. Of course, we never heard about that in our country.
<snip>

http://www.larryflynt.com/notebook.php?id=102

[wli]

25. yep, the neocons are assassinating their way around

This may have something to do with why the Dems in Congress are so spineless.

[Catholic Sensation]

19. Moussolini was executed, and rightfully so

calling his killing an assassination humanizes one of the worst political figures in the twentieth century

[ck4829]

20. He's been removed (no pun intended)

I don't know why I included that Fascist.