ASSASSINS
This season’s oddest cultural convergence? A play, two movies, and a novel about killing the president, via NewYorkmetro.com:
“Even before the Patriot Act, dropping the merest intimation that you’d like to do harm to the president of the United States was always enough to draw the Sauron-like gaze of the Secret Service upon you, or at least earn you a little coffee-stained Post-it somewhere in your FBI file. And beyond that, admitting to assassination fantasies has always seemed creepy: Among sane people, the glamour quotient of John Hinckley Jr. has never been particularly high.
“But recent widespread feelings of anxiety, frustration, and helplessness seem to have caused a curious blip on the cultural radar: Assassination has become the taboo du jour….”
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Anonymous
