Race to Assassination

Sean Macomber illustrates how the extremist paranoia of the left has for years now been fermenting into something that could become genuinely murderous:

Take for example, The Last Supper, a quaint little feature from 1996 wherein a group of five liberal grad students decide to begin inviting conservatives over to their house for dinner every Sunday. Once there, they engage the right-winger in conversation on ‘life current events, the environment.’ If by the end of the meal the guest hasn't seen the error of his wicked conservative ways, the grad students kill him and turn him into fertilizer for their backyard tomato garden.

The liberals in The Last Supper take the old ethics quandary - if you met Hitler in Austria in 1909, would you kill him to prevent World War II? - and twist it into a preemptive strike on anyone standing in the way of "progressivism." It's a movie all journalists should be forced to watch before chanting the oft-repeated lore of the 2004 election cycle that liberal wackiness and unrestrained hatred towards all things right is a brand new phenomenon.

"Think about all the right-wing assholes the world would be better off without if someone had wasted them before they did any real harm," one student muses as they begin to plot their detour from their Master's work into serial murder.

There were several plays and a ton of bumper stickers in New York City last week all purporting to “joke” about the assassination President Bush. And this isn’t new either – remember Alec Baldwin calling (in jest, he claimed later) for the murder of then-House Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde and his entire family during the Clinton impeachment? Add in the depths of hysteria that are gripping the presidential campaign as John Kerry continues to sag in the polls, and then a Bush victory in November, and it becomes less and less of a stretch to see a race between al Qaeda and the hard left as to which can “get” Dubya first.