[Marxism] Bush: "We must get rid of Arafat" = signal ?

[Chris Brady <cdbrady@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Intentional, implied, or inferred, what does history show about possible
repercussions from this sort of utterance?

QUOTATION:  "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"

ATTRIBUTION: Henry II, King (1133?1189), British king of England.
Exclamation, December 1170. Attributed.

Referring to Thomas à Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury.  The murder of
Becket by four knights, present at Henry?s outburst, led to the creation
of a cult which remained for three centuries the most popular in
England.

The Columbia World of Quotations.  1996.
NUMBER: 27888
http://www.bartleby.com/66/88/27888.html

Even if some high-handed, off-the-shelf, plausibly denied operatives
took this as an order and wacked Yassir, George Junior could confidently
quote Krusty the Clown: "I-i-i-i-i-i-i didn't do it!"  Nevertheless, the
cult of Arafat the Martyr could well haunt his worst-wishers--known to
have expressed their deadly desires against him.

Ironically, Becket was offed on the 29th of this very month, 833 years
ago.
Henry's namesake, the VIII of that moniker, wrecked Becket's tomb at
Canterbury and dispersed the Roman Catholic Saint's remains to wipe out
the most-vaunted champion of English submission to the supremacy of the
Holy See.  For our purposes, we reds may remember Becket less as a
Christian zealot yet still more as a principled resister against the
present, reckless violence of monomaniacal authority.  Similarly,
Arafat's bourgeois crimes and conceits could be whitewashed by
worshipful regard.

In answer to the USA President Bush,
masses of anti-Zionists may secretly breathe:
"Yeah, go ahead.  Make my day."


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