pjmedia.com Politicians are hunkering down as they wonder who might be the next target following the Charlie Kirk assassination. The Associated Press writes that “politicians in both parties and at virtually every level of public service are suddenly being forced to deal with acute security concerns … some political leaders are canceling public appearances. Others are relying on a large police presence to keep them safe.” The two unsuccessful attempts on the life of then presidential candidate Donald Trump and the successful assassination of Kirk by three seeming amateurs impelled by obscure ideologies have made it nearly impossible for bodyguards to predict where the next blow might come from.
Thomas Matthew Crooks, Ryan Wesley Routh, and Tyler Robinson (the case of Luigi Mangione will be omitted here) were unremarkable men who somehow became possessed – the word is used deliberately – with an idea to kill a man they had never met, even at the almost certain cost of long jail sentences. Terrifying in their unpredictability, perhaps the only parallel in history is the fear caused by the cult of the assassins, who came to Western awareness through tales recounted by Marco Polo, which went something like this: “Know o traveler that the old man of the mountain hath young disciples, who fed hashish from whose name ‘assassin’ comes, awaken to a vision of paradise that will be theirs forever would they but smite whosoever stands in their master’s way.” The old man of the mountain actually had the power to make young men kill strangers, as this perhaps apocryphal story illustrates.
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