Quotes about Political Killing

Benigno Aquino Jr.

Assassination is a part of public service …. If it is my fate to die by an assassin’s bullet, so be it.

Upon landing, he was killed by a political assassin's bullet.

Franklin Orth

We do not think that any sane American, who calls himself an American, can object to placing into this bill the instrument which killed the president of the United States.

Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, had purchased the killing rifle from an ad in the NRA Magazine, The American Rifleman. Congress was debating new gun control legislation that would restrict mail order gun sales. The NRA supported the modest gun control legislation as they had earlier {623081}. . The legislation passed with very heavy support. , the NRA would shift far to the right and would no longer support any reasonable gun legislation whatsoever, regardless of how reasonable.

George Bernard Shaw

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

Glenn Greenwald

Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

Rudolph Joseph Rummel

… government mass murder, what I call democide

This is the origin of the term “democide” which while not yet in common use has an importantly different meaning from genocide. The former Soviet Union killed millions for the purpose of gaining and maintaining power although they were not intending to wipe our a people or a culture—just opponents. Nazi Germany was guilty of both genocide and democide.