In Response
A DK posteth to this:
What if it was Hitler? By-the-way, Bush II may be the most destructive force on the planet…wouldn’t you and I have an obligation to save the planet?
To save America, our economy, the economies of the world, to save us from a completely polluted and destroyed planet? Wouldn’t it be sacreligous not to step aside?
Stopping the next Hitler (Instead of killing the jews and taking over europe, our Hitler is killing the muslims and taking over the world with the Neo-cons) from destroying the world?
Just curious…
Considering the case of Germany circa 1930s through WWII. On the other hand, if s/he stepped aside and let the bullet hit Adolf Hitler, considering one’s own life more valuable than the head of state, the German society at large would be asking for his/her head. (It might be a minor historical footnote circa 1930.) But the case is pretty well settled according to Nazi ideology as to which is more important — the individual or the state — all in the state’s favour, of course.
A Hitler Assassination attempt is comically dramatized in Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator.
Bush, incidentally, curiously seems as though is receeding into history very early in his second term. The general effect sort of mesmerizes me, as the political whirlwind shifts to other figures who at least supposedly control the balance of the future.