When I first read about Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams saying that she “would love to kill George Bush” I wasn’t particularly shocked. It’s not like we haven’t heard similar sentiments expressed everyday on liberal websites. In books, plays, and probably their wet dreams, liberals write and fantasize about bathing in the blood of George W. Bush, celebrating as the life oozes out of the President of the United States, dancing on his mangled corpse and the corpses of their political enemies.
I’d say that they were engaging in “eliminationist” fantasies but as I’ve pointed out before, there’s no such word.
But what made the statement shocking was the reaction of her audience – made up of children:
“I have a very hard time with this word ‘non-violence’, because I don’t believe that I am non-violent,” said Ms Williams, 64.“Right now, I would love to kill George Bush.” Her young audience at the Brisbane City Hall clapped and cheered.
There’s something profoundly disturbing seeing children cheering on the murder of another human being, even if he is President of the United States and even if the left has made it perfectly acceptable to contemplate murdering him. It reminds me of stories that circulated in the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination. According to William Manchester’s searing chronicle of the assassination Death of a President, there were several instances in Dallas schools where, upon hearing that the President was shot, children spontaneously applauded.
The reason can be found in the Warren Report. When the Commission was discussing how much blame to place on the city of Dallas itself for the assassination, there were several members who believed they couldn’t be too harsh in their criticism. In the end, the Report downplayed the white hot atmosphere of hate and loathing against Kennedy that had been ginned up by Ted Dealy, owner of the Dallas News as well as the local John Birch Society that was made up of several prominent Dallas civic leaders. In fact, on the day of the assassination, Dealy’s paper ran a full page ad with a picture of Kennedy, front and side view as if looking at a mugshot, with the banner “Wanted For Treason” in bold, black letters across the top.
The Commission found that there were dozens of instances of people in Dallas talking openly of assassinating Kennedy when he came to town or wishing that someone would. Texas Governor John Connally had heard the talk as well and begged the President not to go to Dallas. But some of the President’s aides saw Connally’s warnings as self serving. The reason for the Texas trip was to repair the schism in the Democratic party between Connally’s boys and the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic party headed up by Congressman Henry Gonzalez. Connally’s warnings were seen as an effort to stop the President from coming to Texas and foiling the Governor’s plans to kick the liberals into the corner, freezing them out of party leadership positions and influence.
But Kennedy Derangement Syndrome was pretty much confined to Dallas and a few other cities in the south. What is clear from the reaction to Mrs. Williams ranting in Australia is that its successor, Bush hatred, has gone global. We shouldn’t be surprised by this given the planet-wide reach of mass media, the internet, satellite TV, and pop music (especially Hip-Hop) whose graphic images and language routinely threatens violence against the President and authority figures in general.
It makes one wonder – how many similar demonstrations would there be by children the world over? In the United States?
A proud day for the left. And God help liberals if something happens to our President before his term in office ends.
UPDATE
Goldstein has another example of superior, reasoned thought from the left. This post from Booman Tribune is a sterling example (one that we conservatives should take to heart) about how to engage in debate with your ideological foes:
Forgive me for this but Alan Dershowitz’s children should be hit by a 5000 lb. bomb made by an American military-industrial corporation, sold to Israel, and misfired into his home. Then he can talk to me. I will offer my sincere condolences. Then we will get drunk and talk about relative culpability. I’m sorry Alan. You’re scum. Among the people in history that would gladly bitch-slap you are Jesus, Buddha, Zoroaster, Socrates, Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lewis, Nelson Mendala, Bishop Tutu, Pope John Paul II, and me. We’d all like to smack you for being a prick.
Actually, as Jeff points out, this threatening violence against children is getting to be something of a habit with the left recently, Perhaps like Magua in the Last of the Mohicans (nice turn by Wes Studi, btw) he “wishes to wipe his seed from the face of the earth.” More likely, he’s just a moronic twit who enjoys playing with himself thinking about naked dead children.
AND WHERE IS GLENN GREENWALD? WHY HASN’T GLENN GREENWALD CONDEMNED THIS OUTRAGEOUS RHETORIC?
7:45 pm
Further proof that the Nobel
Thanks to my friends at the Cotillion, and to Rick Moran, I see this little news article: Peace prize winner ‘could kill’ Bush Annabelle McDonald, July 25, 2006 NOBEL peace laureate Betty Williams displayed a flash of her feisty Irish
7:52 pm
Hey, Rick – I couldn’t agree more. What an idiot! And did you see those “resolutions” they came up with? feh!
Beautiful examples of idiocy!
BTW, your Goldstein link is actually pointing to your login for WPress, hun.
Good call, brother!
—Kat
http://www.CatHouseChat.com
8:12 pm
Hope the Secret Service pay her a visit.
8:34 pm
I beginning to hope that they put GPS tracking devices into each of the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, so the public can be protected from their winners.
8:52 pm
I believe the followup on at least one of these ‘Dallas schoolchildren cheered JFK’s assassination’ was that the children were told classes were being dismissed for the rest of the day, but the ‘why’ was left to their parents to tell them when they got home.
8:58 pm
451:
You are correct…about one incident. That was printed in the Dallas News a few weeks after the assassination along with the explanation you gave.
Manchester interviewed another teacher who in fact confirmed that it happened in her class, that they erupted in applause when hearing the news over the loudspeaker. In addition, there were several high school classes where the same reaction occurred.
9:42 pm
Its funny how things work. As much as I heard the right bitch about Clinton, I never heard any suggestions of someone taking him out. Sure, there were fake three dollar bills with Clinton’s face on it, but never were an outlandish death threat. As much as I hate Rush Limbaugh, he never said he would off Clinton if he had the chance.
What I find ironic is that Betty Williams was a former terrorist. She was a member of the IRA for about a year. She claims she quit after witnessing a British soldier get shot. She supposedly kneeled down and prayed beside him. Flashforward thirty three years later, she wants to kill the president of the United States. Well as a peace prize, winner she is in good company with the IAEA Yasser Arafat and Jimmy Carter.
10:08 pm
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11:24 pm
What I find far more interesting than Boo Man’s spittle is his presumptuousness.
Of all those persons he thinks are lined up to bitch-slap Professor Dershowitz, there’s little doubt that the only one he knows is the fool who stares back at him in the mirror each morning.
5:18 am
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Would Like To Kill Bush
Nice:
NOBEL peace laureate Betty Williams displayed a flash of her feisty Irish spirit yesterday, lashing out at US President George W.Bush during a speech to hundreds of schoolchildren.
Campaigning on the rights of young people at the Earth Dialogues
5:32 am
Teach the Children
Moonbat Alert!
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9:30 am
Actually Kennedy was in Dallas because he was in deep political trouble not only in Texas but nationally, well on his way to becoming a one term President. While the riff you metioneded was fact so were his declining poll numbers and dissatisfaction with his presidency. Had Kennedy lived Goldwater may well have become president.
As Barry said in an interview sometime after the election what had he learned? He said †They said if you voted for Goldwater we would end up in a war in Asia, I did and we did.â€
9:37 am
You are correct although the Kennedy people thought Texas was the ballgame – lose it and probably lose the Presidency.
It’s interesting what might have happened in a Kennedy-Goldwater race. Barry would have made substantial inroads in the south (he did anyway, coming close in 4 or 5 southern states even against Johnson). Kennedy would have been forced to go with the big state strategy – big union states in the NE and MW and hope to pick up some border states as well as the mid-atlantic.
It’s pretty much Kerry’s strategy from ‘04. And TX and OH would have been the ballgame for the Kennedys as well as Bush.
10:38 am
Is that just the greatest example of irony ever? – a peace prize winner fantasizing about murder.
11:02 am
[...] Rick Moran at Right Wing Nut House: It’s not like we haven’t heard similar sentiments expressed everyday on liberal websites. In books, plays, and probably their wet dreams, liberals write and fantasize about bathing in the blood of George W. Bush, celebrating as the life oozes out of the President of the United States, dancing on his mangled corpse and the corpses of their political enemies. [...]
7:30 pm
Hey, can you actually say that in America and get away with it, I guess so —the lame stream media has not even mentioned this and I’m sure the new york slimes have written long editorials about this evil person—but I forget, they are supplying the ammo.