The Death of a President

[mogster]

Held up by a secret service bodyguard in his dying moments after being shot in the stomach, this is President Bush being assassinated.

Surrounded by a crowd of panicking onlookers, the American leader is pictured just seconds after being gunned down by a sniper following an anti-war demonstration.

But rather than a repeat of JFK's shooting or Ronald Reagan's attempted assassination, this shocking image is part of a new Channel Four show.

The dramatic scene, which has caused outrage among Americans, has been created by a British film company for a programme about the effect of the War On Terror.

In Death Of A President, which will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival later this month (SEPT)before being shown on Channel 4's satellite channel More4 in October, the assassination is a starting point for a retrospective fictional documentary about what happened next.

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It also is in the Norw. news today:
http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2006/09/03/475643.html

[orpupilofnature57]

1. They should have got Poppy to produce it . 11/22/63

[Cooley Hurd]

4. Zapata Productions...

:rofl:

[Cooley Hurd]

2. I don't understand the outrage - this is a docudrama!

If they *think* this is going to "give someone ideas" about shooting the Chimp, they obviously don't understand how *hated* he is throughout the entire world. Anyway, he wears a bulletproof vest, so a shot in the abdomen wouldn't hurt him. Personally, it looks to me like Commander Cuckoobananas has a tummy ache...:evilgrin:

[Kutjara]

7. It's so unrealistic.

The only shot that would kill Emperor Chimp would be one that did significant brain damage (ie. straight through the ass). Even then, it probably wouldn't be fatal, because His Excremency doesn't possess significant brain.

[mogster]

10. It's an example of freedom of speech

It's intended to create debate, not assassins, lol ;-)

Personally, I'd like to see a docu-drama about the process against Bush&co in a legal setting instead, a Nürnberg process where all the details about their war crimes are systematized and seen in a retrospect.

As it is, this image immediately makes me think of the September 11, 2001 and the way the Secret Service/security personnell let Bush sit for a long time unprotected in a classroom full of kids, while an unknown force were attacking the US with airplanes.



There's just no explanation for that, seen in a historical perspective about what the SS is there to do.

[Kutjara]

19. Well...

"There's just no explanation for that, seen in a historical perspective about what the SS is there to do."

There is an explanation, but it requires the donning of tinfoil headgear. The SS knew that Chimpy was in no danger. How would they know that? They'd been told. By whom? Tinfoil time.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

34. AFAIK a war crimes drama about Blair is happening

It's basically the Pinochet story, only with Blair getting arrested whilst on holiday on charges of war crimes. It's by the team who made A Very Social Secretary & I understand it's more about the process of international law than the specifics of Iraq, but at least it's something.

edit -- this is another UK TV drama, btw.

[JackRiddler]

36. Well I DO understand the outrage

Although as usual I don't understand what the theocons are so angry about.

This film depicts the assassination of Bush by a Syrian.

More propaganda for the next chapter of the War on Terra.

More reinforcement for the "Islamofascist" mythology.

Possible preparation for a psyop that plays exactly this card?

[Name removed]

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[Cooley Hurd]

6. The LAST thing we need is for the Chimp to become a martyr...

If you think the accolades for St Ronnie are over-the-top, could you imagine the monument the neocons would erect for this asshole?:puke:

[Name removed]

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[lostnotforgotten]

23. ?

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[lostnotforgotten]

24. ?

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[mogster]

27. Have some care for this community

This is a touchy topic, after all ;-)

Stick to abstracts and film debate.

[Breeze54]

25. "erect for this asshole? " -- They'd need a crane! - ;) - n/t

:rofl:

[Breeze54]

5. More like... "Death of an Asshole"! -- lmao!

:woohoo:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Death of Bush movie shocks TheoCons

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i11295

London - (Associated Mess):

A British-made film predicting the November 2006 assassination of the world's all-time No 1 slimeball and P2 Lodge-hired presidential impersonator George W Bush is threatening to wreak havoc among middle America's TheoCon bible belt as unprecedented crowds of movie buffs cross the US/Canadian border to see its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival early next week.

Death of An Asshole, a 90 minute documentary-style movie about the contract killing of the world's premier leader of organised crime cartels, is set in Dallas, Texas on the eve of the mid-term elections when Bush returns to the nostalgic scene of his greatest lifetime achievement - the November 22 1963 assassination of President John F Kennedy, whose life he took after the P2 Lodge-affiliated members of the Ancient American Order of the Skull 'N' Bones hired him to frame Lee Harvey Oswald and to eradicate any traces of massive complex financial transactions between George Bush Senior, the Vatican Bank and German long-time papal-wannabee Joseph Ratzinger following the aftermath of the Suez fiasco.

The movie has come about after a combination of trompe l'oeil camera techniques, animation and special effects were discovered by the film's producers in the original Zaprudder Footage that so convinced moral-majority members of the Warren Commission who were hired by the US Papal ProNuncio to find that Oswald acted alone and that his alleged accomplice - one Mr Grassy Noel - was a mere fictional character devised by deranged conspiracy theory fanatics.

In Death of An Asshole, George Bush Jr is portrayed in is true colors - as a 1960's Cuban-born Russian gangster, a half brother to Tony Blair born to Hitler's long-lost daughter after his liaison with one of the UK Fascist Party's greatest icons, the Mitford family sister-in-law of Oswald Moseley.

The secene of his demise is shot in black and white to echo the stark con-trick of the Zaprudder Footage which has formed the solid bedrock of all P2 Lodge crime denial for the last forty three years.

Some nifty camera work has ensured that the actor playing Bush Jr is never really identified although rumors are rife in the film industry that the role is being played by Tom Cruise.

Throughout its 90 minutes, Death of An Asshole focuses on the inevitable certainty that KGB-hired double-agents in the CIA and FBI had all been infiltrated by British Intelligence who monitored their progress in world organised crime cartels, depicted by the media as the Global Piss Process.

But what has caused the greatest furore among American TheoCon Bush supporters is the clear message that all the supposedly fictional events portrayed in Death of An Asshole have already been predicted in code-form both in the Old and New Testaments and passages from the Koran.

These concealed coded prophecies were found in newly discovered translations of religious texts made by Renaissance scientific genius and master artist Leonardo Da Vinci.

Their discovery prompted NATO covert campaigns which used MI5-sponsored techniques of misinformation ensuring that B List celeb fiction writers in the 21st century were able to rake in million dollar fortunes by focusing on sub-plot spoilers such as that portrayed by Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code to draw attention away from the inevitable reality on what is to come.

The movie opens in Toronto early next week and will be followed by a terrestrial tv premiere in the UK towards the end of the month.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
*psst* I can't recommend twice! ;)

:kick:

[magellan]

8. Caused outrage among which Americans?

There's been a little tut-tut'ing, but I haven't heard anything approaching outrage yet. There again, I don't travel among the lower 30%.

[Cooley Hurd]

11. Rep. Peter King (R - Bad Toupee) was freaking out about it...

...and I believe Michele Malkin was ready to bite someone over it:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

28. Strange how different species have similar rant techniques....

[struggle4progress]

43. Eric Staal's "It is an appalling way to treat the head of state of ..

.. another country" is rich in irony, something Republicans Abroad apparently are unable to detect in their own statements.

White House says assassination of Saddam would be 'well received'
Last Updated Wed, 02 Oct 2002 07:34:41 EDT
CBC News

.. Bush's chief spokesman Ari Fleischer said the assassination of Saddam Hussein would be well-received by the world community ..

http://www.cbc.ca/story/news/national/2002/10/01/busiraq021001.html

Bush may lift assassination ban
AM - Wednesday, 26 February , 2003 00:00:00
Reporter: John Shovelan

.. .. JOHN SHOVELAN: Did President Bush tell a US senator he would order the assassination of the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein? .. One thing is for sure, the White House isn't denying it, the President just can't remember.
ARI FLEISCHER: The President doesn't recall if he said it or didn't say it.
JOHN SHOVELAN: According to Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald, President Bush told him he would order the assassination of Saddam Hussein if the US had intelligence on where he was and had a clear shot ..

http://www.abc.net.au/am/stories/s793104.htm

Bid to assassinate Saddam
Missile attack on Iraqi leader
Bush: 'early stages' of invasion
170,000 troops on border
Julian Borger in Washington and James Meek in northern Kuwait
Thursday March 20, 2003

The United States attempted to kill Saddam Hussein with a cruise missile attack in the early hours of this morning, in what President George Bush said were the "early stages" of a US-British invasion of Iraq ..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,917948,00.html

And Scotland on Sunday seems to think King a bit the hypocrite:

".. Far be it for me to minimise King's concerns but they would carry more weight if they did not come from the mouth of a man who spent decades sympathising with and excusing the actions of the IRA - an organisation that really did try to murder Margaret Thatcher and John Major, among many others .."
President Bush is an easy target for assassination
ALEX MASSIE
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=1300832006

[mogster]

13. From Daily Mirror

The makers of Death Of A President say it is a thought-provoking film designed to promote "legitimate debate" over the legacy of Bush's war on terror.

And Channel 4 bosses, who will screen the film next month, insist they will not bow to pressure to scrap it despite howls of protest from Bush supporters and TV watchdogs in the UK and America.
(...)
But John Beyer of TV watchdog MediaWatch said the drama was irresponsible and could even spark a real-life assassination attempt.

He added: "There's a lot of feeling against President Bush and this may well put ideas into people's heads."

And Mr Beyer issued a stark warning to Channel 4 bosses, saying: "If something happens as a consequence of this film, then blood is on their hands.

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This is an attack on the freedom of speech.

[magellan]

14. "may well put ideas into people's heads"

Yeah, right...If this movie hadn't been made no one would EVER have entertained the thought.

[mogster]

16. John Beyer is a censorship hawk

New Treaty needed on Internet content

News release 1 November 2005
A new international treaty on Internet content is urgently needed according to mediawatch-uk. In a letter to Home Secretary, The Rt Hon Charles Clarke MP, mediawatch-uk director, John Beyer (right), said that the corruption of our young people by pornography on the Internet had become a major public concern. He said: “It is vital that a new international treaty on Internet content is agreed at the World Summit on the Information Society taking place in Tunis later this month. This represents a most timely and appropriate opportunity for the British government not only to make known again its concern about extreme internet content but also its determination to actively combat the phenomenon with new legislation.”

http://www.mediawatchuk.org/news%20and%20views/Autumn%202005%20news%20release.htm

[Eurobabe]

39. Oh horse pockey. Bush is THE most hated pRetzeldent of

this century. You can't tell me that this will give ANYONE ideas, there are probably enough ideas out there already. For public figures the 'A' word possibility comes with the territory, that's why every Prez has a Secret Service detail for chrissakes!

Give him a popemobile, he'll feel much safer.

[Kutjara]

21. There has been considerable outrage...

...among the people the media go to whenever they need 'outrage.' Those people have been really very outraged indeed. There has also been some outrage expressed by groups who are normally merely disgusted, with a few typically 'upset' types expressing the need to demonstrate solidarity with their 'outraged' brethren.

Yes, the kneejerk asshole contingent are practically apoplectic with distemper at...uh...what was the question again?

[ThomWV]

29. I Haven't Met Anyone Who's The Least Bit Disturbed By It

Looks to me to be a cross between the picture of Reagan catching his bullit and Ruby killing Oswald. Not very immaginative. Pleaseing to the eye, but not immaginitave.

[Phrogman]

12. Is that Jeff Gannon falling in the foreground?

LOL

[Omphaloskepsis]

15. The timing is fucking lame, so is the premise...

Jesus fucking christ... The entire world makes me ill... Pass me my beer and hot dog on a stick. swish..



Haha -- I spelled Jesus wrong.. viva la spellcheck

[EFerrari]

17. When was an American president so reviled in the world that

he had to be executed in the public imagination? Reagan was hated but I don't remember anyone imagining his death in this public way.

[Cooley Hurd]

22. Interesting, isn't it?

Although many of the rabid right openly fantasized about such an outcome for President Clinton, I have NO doubt such an event would've been roundly condemned throughout the world. I have my sincere doubts that the death of the Chimp would produce a similar international outcry (I'm thinking more like crickets chirping).;)

[EFerrari]

42. It's interesting to me as it's happening outside of the Thug controlled

media. Or, at least I think it is.

You know the way the presstitutes sometimes put out a piece to let people vent -- a kind of measured outlet for negativity? Everyone from Tweety to NYTs does this.

But, this looks like it's a different critter, although I'm sure the producers are capitalizing on the nearly universal hatred of Junior over there.

I wonder if we'll see more of these as this duck gets more and more lame.

[comtec]

18. Not to get myself put on the NSAs assassin list...

But I have thought a lot about what would happen if chimpy was assassinated.

Hands down it would be the worst thing for this world.
Think of the unrivaled power the neocons would grab. Think of Chaney in charge! (sorry had to laugh at the thought of a Sitcom)

Chimpy dying, and not being tried in the world court on war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes against the earth (yeah right like THEY care), economic warfare against the people of the us and other 3rd world countries. This, of course, after he has been impeached, convicted, and sentenced to death as a traitor t the constitution.

Many people here in Europe, the Immigrants at my language lessons, are from the middle east. They just want him dead. Gone, poof!A similar feeling towards Saddam as well. I explain to them (because it's good language practice) that just killing them is no good. They die, all their secrets die with them. BUT.. if you put them on trial in the world court, THEN you can really destroy them! Utterly disgrace them, their hateful families, everyone!!

THAT is true, sweet revenge! Schuidenfrude or not, THAT is how to take this chimp down, and every one else in his family and administration. THEN... you take their money, and put it towards fixing ours, and other countries. THAT would really be the last nail.

Using their evil, cruelly gotten money (remember Bush sr, sr SUPPORTED HITLER!!) towards helping those they step on.

but I digress.

[Cooley Hurd]

20. My sincerest hope is for the entire Neocon cabal...

...to be put on trial, ala Nürnberg. Although, death sentences go against my beliefs, I'd be happy to see them incarcerated for the rest of their lives in a Turkish prison (thinking "Midnight Express").;)

[Philosoraptor]

26. MY NEW WALLPAPER!

[joeunderdog]

44. What...in your living room? nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

30. What's the big deal? A foreign producer makes a film

and the American RW goes nuts.

What if the tables were reversed? Would they be whining then?

[baldguy]

31. In one of Tom Clancy's books

the "hero", Jack Ryan, orders the assassination of the President of Iran.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Orders

[SheilaT]

32. From what I understand of

this docudrama, the set-up is hilariously bad. Bush at an anti-war rally? Or that an anti-war rally would be permitted to take place within, say, five miles of him? I'm sure there are any number of realistic scenarios which could result in the assassination of an American President. This just isn't one of them.

It actually says a lot for this country that there are very few actual attempts. And even fewer successes. I think that shows that in the end, people here understand that assassination won't really work to accomplish their ends. Other than the resulting death of the intended target.

Does anyone know if this docudrama ends up with the actual assassin being caught, or is the "focus on a Syrian-born man in the search for the culprit" the government's knee-jerk reaction and assumption of who must be to blame? In other words were George W. Bush, God forbid, be assassinated, I can imagine any number of potential assassins -- not as specific persons but as coming from a broad range of groups, both political and ethnic.

[glitch]

33. I'd look to Jeb first. He's the one with a big motive to make W a martyr

Without it Jeb won't stand a chance running for President and I bet he knows it.
But would Poppy let him? Would Bar let Poppy let him? These are the questions W asks himself.

[Cooley Hurd]

35. The only thing that could salvage the Chimp's legacy would be...

...to be "martyred" (it saved Warren Harding's legacy - in the short term - to die unexpectedly while in office). As his legacy stands now, any relative of the Chimp would stand little chance of being elected to anything, let alone POTUS. You don't think Jeb knows this?:think:

[glitch]

37. I think Jeb is as delusional as the the rest of the Bush Family and would

be quite willing to capitalize on any short-term sympathy while he could. And even if the sympathy couldn't carry him the impression that it could would allow the machines to take it for him without too much questioning.
But it's probably not necessary anyway, legitimate elections are quickly becoming irrelevant, even to the courts.

[MissWaverly]

38. I have thought that myself

it's very similar to Warren Harding with his scandal Teapot Dome about to break open, he dies
and then the whole thing is shifted under the rug to protect his legacy.

[Marie26]

40. That picture is disturbing. nt

[malmapus]

41. Most disturbing that the freakin assassin would have handed us

over to that bastard Cheney.