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I'm not sure, I feel like Obama pretends to be a nice guy because he sortof has to be a nice guy in the US. He couldn't get away with poisoning a journalist. Co

• jlgreco 13y ago
  He could probably get away with poisoning a journalist, but probably not in such a... dramatic and obvious... way. That polonium poisoning was astounding, it just screams "So fucking what."
  • VladRussian2 13y ago
    >it just screams "So fucking what." In my reading it wasn't the main motif, it was a way to kill in the way that nobody would even question who did it, while not having to publicly claim responsibility.
  • coldtea 13y ago
    Or it screams: "I'm sending a message now to anybody else doing the same thing".
• betterunix 13y ago
  Poison, probably not. Give them a choice between prison or paying millions to defend against a federal prosecution, on the other hand... Yeah, I suppose being poisoned is worse. Talk about a rock and a hard place though.
• coldtea 13y ago
  >He couldn't get away with poisoning a journalist. Well, no, but then again, he wouldn't even have to know. The system is quite extended. If someone, say a Hastings guy, makes too many waves, he could, say, die in a car crash. Or if some Garry Webb guy discovers something too bad, somebody can make some calls, and have 13 reporters investigating him (a fellow journalist) instead of his claims. And if they eventually prove to be true, 10 years later, and are even admitted by officials, who cares then?