"This is America. This is not the way we do away with Presidents. We do away with them in a very civilised manner. We vote. We do not kill people."
"On the day President Kennedy died, that evening I was at a lecture that she gave. In the question-and-answer period, somebody said something like 'You never liked President Kennedy so his death is nothing to grieve about.' She got terribly upset about that remark and said 'This is America. This is not the way we do away with Presidents. We do away with them in a very civilised manner. We vote. We do not kill people'."
~ Ayn Rand remark, taken from a 1999 interview with Frederick Feingersh (an NBI student under Rand in the 1960s). Hat tip Ben Bayer.
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It's surprising that the shooter was on a building that no police were assigned to guard. Either the local police and the Secret Service, who are supposed to coordinate and work together, were incompetent, or there was something conspiratorial, involving nefarious players in law enforcement and the Secret Service who allowed the shooter to climb up there and position himself to take the shot at Trump.
I remember we partied at the castle's turret on the Saturday afternoon when President Clinton and President Jiang Zemin were having a meeting at the Government House. Two agents turned up at the turret and hung around, just to observe that we were not planning to do a Lee Harvey Oswald on either Clinton or Zemin. One of them was a Kiwi law enforcement officer, and the other was American, presumably a Secret Service agent because of his accent. The two agents left the turret after Clinton and Zemin's meeting finished.
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