TOO ANTI-BUSH

Everyone who has spent any amount of time on my site knows that I am anti-Bush (I'm also annoyed at the Democrats, but that's another post). There are, however, limits to my hatred of any person I happen to hate. These limits fall very short of wishing death on anyone. I don't. Color me a hippie, but I actually do believe in a culture of life--as opposed to a lot of you Republicans out there who need to protect the lives of every unborn baby but think nothing of the deaths that occur when attacking a country.

So, even though I despise Bush and wish that he was out of office, I am against crap like this:

And this:

I still believe in the freedom of speech, but depicting the guy in the white house being threatened or endorsing the death of that man, regardless of what you think of him is just flat wrong--morally and legally. In fact, the freedom of speech in America does not apply to threatening the life of the president. So, I can understand why these kinds of pics get people in trouble. The T-shirt above was available through CafePress.com, but was yanked after DrudgeReport.com linked to the shirt's product page. The second image is from an art exhibit in San Francisco. Read more about it in an article from News.Yahoo.com and AP.org. Apparently the artist is being probed by the SS (Secret Service).

On a complete side note, I love the journalism of today--both the article and the caption at Yahoo describes a revolver pointed at Bush's head--barely a glance at the sheet of mock stamps tells you it's clearly not a revolver but a pistol, like a .45 or something. Don't these idiot reporters/copywriters understand that in order for a gun to be a "revolver" something has to actually revolve??