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John Lennon murdered. John Kennedy murdered. Martin Luther King murdered. Gandhi murdered. Jesus murdered. Reagan – wounded. You know, bad fucking choice. Bill Hicks
The Khomeini cry for the execution of Rushdie is an infantile cry. From the beginning of time we have seen that. To murder the thinker does not murder the thought. Arnold Wesker
It’s been decided you will be dressed as a priest ... You are to shoot the presidential nominee through the head. The Manchurian Candidate 1962 starring Frank Sinatra & Angela Lansbury & Janet Leigh & Laurence Harvey & Henry Silva & James Gregory & Leslie Parris & John McGiver et al, director John Frankenheimer, mother to son
I need you to plan a presidential assassination. Shooter 2007 starring Mark Walhberg & Lane Garrison & Danny Glover & Michael Pena & Kate Mara & Elias Koteas & Rhona Mitra & Jonathan Walker & Justin Louis & Tate Donovan et al, director Antoine Fuqua, colonel
Whoever took that shot’s probably dead now. That’s how conspiracy works. Them boys on the grassy knoll – they were dead within three hours. ibid. expert
There is no head to cut off; it’s a conglomerate. ibid. bloke in wheelchair
There’s only haves and have-nots. ibid. senator
A thousand years ago a clan of weavers formed a secret society of assassins. They silently carried out executions to restore order to a world on the brink of chaos. They call themselves the Fraternity. Wanted 2008 starring Angelina Jolie & James McAvoy & Morgan Freeman & Thomas Kretschmann & Konstantin Khabensky & Marc Warren & Terence Stamp & Chris Pratt & Kristen Hager, director Timur Bekmambetov, opening caption
Welcome to the Fraternity. ibid. Sloan
You’re just a thug who can bend bullets. ibid. Gibson to Sloan
It is the conclusion of this committee that Senator Carroll was assassinated by Thomas Richard Linder. It is our further conclusion that he acted entirely alone. The Parallax View 1974 starring Warren Beatty & Paula Prentiss & Hume Cronyn & William Daniels & Walter McGinn & Kelly Thorsden & Chuck Waters & William Joyce & Bettie Johnson et al, director Alan J Pakula
Somebody’s systematically knocking off witnesses to that assassination. ibid. Beatty to boss
There is a natural bureaucratic tendency to cover up mistakes. ibid.
Austin Powers trilogy: Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to my underground lair. I have gathered here before me the world’s greatest assassins. And yet each of you has failed to kill Austin Powers. That makes me angry. And when Mr Bigglesworth gets upset people die. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997 starring Mike Myers & Elizabeth Hurley & Robert Wagner & Seth Green & Mindy Sterling & Michael York & Fabiana Udenio & Will Ferrell & Mimi Rogers & Joe Son, Dr Evil to associates
One of the duties of the first officer of a Klingon vessel is to assassinate his captain. Star Trek: The Next Generation s2e8: A Matter of Honor s2e8, Riker to Worf
This is the fourth assassination attempt I’ve survived. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s5e8: Things Past, Gul Dukat to Dax
Revelations that the Central Intelligence Agency launched a world-wide assassination program, and then concealed its existence from the US Congress and the American people for eight years, carries an implication that death squads may have been employed against political opponents. Tom Burghardt, Dissident Voice 20th July 2009, ‘Was Dr David Kelly a Target of Dick Cheney’s ‘Executive Assassination Ring’?’
All the security around the American president is just to make sure the man who shoots him gets caught. Norman Mailer, cited Sunday Telegraph 4th March 1990
Dangerous missions. Covert operations. And deadly assassinations. Ordered by the president of the United States. America's Book of Secrets s2e7: Presidential Cover-Ups, H2 2014
They stalk and they lie in wait. For a chance to attack the president of the United States of America. But who are the assassins and why do they kill? America’s Book of Secrets s2e10: Presidential Assassination
Better a good journalist than a poor assassin. Jean-Paul Sartre
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. Voltaire
Assassination has never changed the history of the world. Benjamin Disraeli
It is not just a question of blowing up a building or shooting a prime minister. Such bourgeois horseplay is not contemplated. Our operation must be delicate, refined and aimed at the heart of the Intelligence apparatus of the West. Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love
Assassination is an option when the ruling class can identify an enemy that cannot be compromised. Alex Jones, Invisible Empire – A New World Order Defined, 2010
Well over 200 people ... The groupings of these deaths: in the late 60s prior to the Garrison investigation there was a clump of people who died in Dallas mostly connected to Jack Ruby and the Dallas underworld. At the time of the Garrison investigation another group died and these were all close witnesses and people who could have come forward. And then by 1977 when the House Select Committee on assassinations was convening and were calling senior FBI officials and Mafia chieftains and they all died before they could testify. Jim Marrs, author Crossfire
Justifiably feeling threatened, the established bloodlines of power in America removed the Kennedy threat. Official police records show that the Kennedy assassination was closely proceeded by and followed by as many as one hundred assassinations all of which were closely connected to the Kennedy family’s rise to power. Jordan Maxwell, Matrix of Power
What would you fellas say to an assassination? Network 1976 starring Faye Dunaway & Peter Finch & William Holden & Robert Duvall & Wesley Addy & Ned Beatty & Beatrice Straight & Jordan Charney & William Princce & Lane Smith & Marlene Warfield & Conchata Ferrell et al, director Sidney Lumet
The issue is whether we should kill Howard Beale or not. ibid.
Good afternoon. Wide World of Sports is in the little republic of San Marcos where we’re going to bring you a live on-the-spot assassination. Bananas 1971 starring Woody Allen & Louise Lasser & Carlos Montalban & Natividad Abascal & Jacobo Morales & Miguel Angel Suarez & David Ortiz & Rene Enriquez & Jack Axelrod & Howard Cosell & Roger Grimsby et al, director Woody Allen
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. George Bernard Shaw
If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well
It were done quickly: if the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
With his surcease success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
We’d jump the life to come. William Shakespeare, Macbeth I vii 1
Besides, this Duncan
Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
So clear in his great office, that his virtues
Will plead like angels trumpet-tongued, against
The deep damnation of his taking-off. ibid. I vii 16
And pity, like a naked new-born babe,
Striding the blast, or heaven’s cherubim, horsed
Upon the sightless couriers of the air,
Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,
That tears shall drown the wind. ibid. I vii 21