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Ford Derangement Syndrome: Presidential Assassin Sara Jane Moore released today

Who's Sara Jane Moore? Back in the oh-so-fun 1970's, she was one of a number of failed aassassins of President Gerald R. Ford. Presidential assassination attempts arent unusual, but what is unusual is that the assassin in this case was a woman. More unusual ( forgive the small pun ) is that this was the second assassination attempt on the same President by a woman. Just 17 days previous to Sara Jane Moores attempt, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, one of the Charles Mansons followers attempted to kill President Ford in Sacramento.

She too, failed in her attempt.

Sara Jane Moore was an bookkeeper and FBI informant. She also owned a .44 caliber pistol, which was taken away just days before the attempt at killing President Ford. She was sympathetic to the Symbionese Liberation Army and their cause. The closest that anyone came to determining a reason behind her attempt was that she believed that there was a "war on the left" being waged by the President. Quoted after the attempt, she said:

"...I do regret I didn't succeed, and allow the winds of change to start. I wish I had killed him. I did it to create chaos."

The FBI said that had she made the attempt with her own pistol, history might very well have been different.

The Tony award winning play "Assassins" made a characture out of Sara Jane Moore. Whats interesting to me is that the revival was met with rave reviews - in 2004.

Here is a scene from the play, where her character is presented during a song called " everyone's got the right"

PROPRIETOR

(to Fromme)
Yo baby!
Looking for a thrill?
The Ferris wheel is that way.

(Fromme comes over.)

No, baby,
This requires skill --

(Fromme puts money down; the Proprietor shrugs, gives her a gun.)

Okay, you want to give it a try...

(As Fromme plays with the gun, Moore is spilling keys, credit cards, lipstick, etc., over the counter.)

Jeez, lady--!
(indicates Czolgosz)

Give the guy some room!
The bumper cars are that way...

(Moore finds her money; Proprietor gives her a .38, which she accidentally points at his stomach.)

Please, lady --
(turning barrel away)
Don't forget that guns can go boom...

Every year there is a new flu, but its just a new strain of the old killer. Its worth remembering that Bush Derangement Syndrome is just this seasons version of an old killer, one that barely missed Reagan, Ford, Nixon, Truman, Roosevelt(both of them) and Kennedy, Mckinley, Garfield and Lincoln was slain by. Presidents come and go, but every assassination destroys the contract of democracy between the governed and the government in a small way,edging it towards the abyss.

Witness - The Pakistan situation.

What Mr. Sondheim wanted to say was that it was the American culture itself that produced these crazed killers. What he neglected to point out, is just how many of them were people of the left.

What we all fail to recognize is that history shows that Sara Jane Moore to be a crazed and failed assassin, but that current leftist sentimentality of the press and of popular culture works overtime to justify her insane actions.

I wonder if the left will ever understand the madness that they feed and their role in nurturing the insanity.

Posted @ December 31, 2007 02:19 PM | Current Affairs

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