Rooster in Review: FBI Entraps Iraqi National Living in Ohio for Natural Urge to Assassinate George W. Bush
But first... an update on our girl Meg!
Last week The Rooster wrote an SOS to President Xi’s Patriots Caucus… asking if anyone out there could find room in their heart for our girl Meg, an originally abandoned cat on Bellows Avenue in The Bottoms that needed to be re-homed to a place with no other cats.
It was a tall ask. But as always, President Xi’s Patriots Caucus came through in the form of reader (and personal friend to The Rooster) Josh B. Here is our girl Meg living in the lap of luxury in Northeastern Ohio:
Look at her go! Already claiming that unused ottoman as her throne.
Josh B., being the patriot that he is, refused his one free year paid subscription to The Rooster. Instead he asked that it be given away.
[EDITOR’S NOTE: The prize has been claimed.]
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P.S. There will be no dispatch on Monday, as y’all won’t be reading your email anyway. (Nor should you be.)
Normal service will resume Tuesday, May 30th.
This week an Ohio Man got arrested in an alleged plot to assassinate George W. Bush.
From Matt Durr of mlive.com [brackets mine]:
WASHINGTON -- An Iraqi national [living in Columbus, Ohio,] has been arrested after he allegedly plotted to kill former President George W. Bush because he felt Bush was responsible for the deaths of Iraqis during “Operation Iraqi Freedom.”
Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab, 52, appeared in federal court Tuesday on charges of attempting to illegally bring an individual into the United States and aiding and abetting the attempted murder of a former United States Official, according to the Department of Justice.
There are countries, much more civilized than the United States, where escaping from jail is not a crime considering it’s human nature to want to escape from jail in the first place.
The Rooster feels similar grace should be extended to Iraqi nationals who feel the desire to participate in a plot to murder George W. Bush, the most useful of all the idiots in the march to an illegal war that killed 500,000 civilians.
That said, expect the government’s story to change once this headline disappears. Most likely, Mr. Shihab suffers from untreated mental illness and was entrapped by a federal agent into a plot that started with him asking about the level of Secret Service protection around W’s house in Dallas. (It’s happened in Ohio before.)
Any plot that starts with the premise a former United States president can be assassinated without a military drone at his Secret Service-protected house is so laughable it almost doesn’t require a response. Unfortunately for Mr. Shihab, the FBI sees things differently, especially when a headline for “national security” is at stake.
Look at those jokers in Michigan who thought they were going to kidnap the governor of Michigan. They thought they were going to try her by military tribunal in the woods of Wisconsin, and they hadn’t even figured out how they were going to get her off the vacation island in the first place. Two participants were found not guilty and two others got a mistrial.
Will any of this ever stop press outlets regurgitating the initial facts of the case, as spoon-fed to them by government actors with every reason to paint their actions in the best possible light? Absolutely not.
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