I needed to get some humor over the whole Pat Robertson thing last night at the Pub Quiz at The Globe Pub in Chicago by naming our team "Pat Robertson - Assassin For Hire." Got a decent laugh and we killed the competition (figuratively, not literally of course)
What Pat did is the latest of transgretions from the right and religious zelots in this country who made threats on someone and (mostly) got away with it. I still remember back in '94 when Jesse Helmes actually all but threattened Clintion would be assassinated if he came to North Carolina. Of course, nothing was done about it.
Now, if I or someone else either on the left or one without a TV Network, influential talk show or a bunch of money made a threat against Hugo Chavez, President Bush or anyone like that, I would have the Secret Service on my case pretty darn quick. That shows you how much of a police state we are living in today.