Will Someone Please Just Kill Kim Jong Un Already?

Sad news today. Theater owners caved to “hackers” who threatened to bomb viewings of the new hotly anticipated Seth Rogen and James Franco movie “The Interview.” AMC, Regal, Cinemark, and Canada’s Cineplex announced they would not show the film, which means that nearly half of the screens in the United States are cancelled. It’s a devastating loss for Sony, and a sad case of tyranny winning out over free speech.

Will someone please just kill Kim Jong Un already?

Rogen praised Amy Pascal, the executive at Sony responsible for the movie, thanking her for “having the balls” to make the film. So it’s sad that the theatre chains would cave to terroristic threats, and cancel or delay the screenings. Sony has suffered for making the film, with incredibly damaging leaks from the Hollywood elite pouring out of an archive that Hackers acquired and sowing chaos in the company.

“Remember the 11th of September 2001. We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time,” the hacker group wrote.

“If your house is nearby, you’d better leave,” they added. “Whatever comes in the coming days is called by the greed of Sony Pictures Entertainment.”

It’s understandable why the theatre chains would wish to avoid being responsible for any deaths or violence that could occur if hackers followed through on their threats to theaters showing the film. While the film is itself an act of free speech, the theater chains closing of screenings is what they perceive to be in their own self-interest. That’s their business and they have every right to it.

But still, it’s no small thing to play with America’s freedoms.

Damn The Man!

North Korea's Missile Range Threat
North Korea’s Missile Range Threat

North Korea is the land of Nod. You want to talk “I can’t breathe?” You think the CIA tortures? The brutality of the North Korean regime makes light of America’s petty tyrannies. Yeon-mi Park, a girl who escaped the regime describes brutal murders and torture at the hands of the Kim dynasty. Why, after all the death and suffering, the nuclear threats, after all the empty promises of “never again” after the Holocaust, why are we just sitting by and allowing this tyrannical regime to continue?

Admittedly, the latest of the North Korean tyrant’s bloodline has not been alive long enough to commit the same atrocities as his father and grandfather, but the point still stands. If the North Korean regime is willing to threaten the world with nukes (their missiles could theoretically strike the California coast), then they must be toppled.

The murderous reign of the family of Kim il Sung and his vile brood should come to an end, and it should happen before they can take more innocent lives, or starve any more untold millions. Who among us has the courage to do what must be done?

The regime ain’t gonna collapse itself. They already tried to kill him once already, and it didn’t go off as planned.

Screen Shot 2014-12-17 at 8.31.23 PMIn 1968, a retaliatory assassination attempt on Un’s grandfather by South Korea was cancelled. South Korea had hired petty criminals to assassinate il Sung, training them on an island called Silmido, and calling them Unit 684. When they heard the attack was scrapped, the commandos suddenly found themselves exiled to the island, unable to leave. They revolted, and after hijacking a bus to make a daring escape, the men committed suicide with grenades. The story of Unit 684 was chronicled in another film “Silmido.”

President Obama? 

Pffft. Yeah right. Obama is comfortable extrajudicially killing American citizens with drones, but the consequences of a strike on North Korea just aren’t worth it. Plus, Gerald Ford signed an executive order which made it illegal to assassinate a foreign leader (this despite the fact that we tried to kill Fidel Castro plenty of times). The Constitution of the United States allows for letters of Marque and Reprisal to be issued by congress. They have the power to call up privateers to kill Un, but they won’t.

So what’s left?

I love Seth Rogen, and allow me to confess, I hate James Franco, for personal reasons, not professional ones.  But I would donate to a crowdfunding campaign to support the movie. You heard me, James. Why not instead of backing down to murderous regimes, we actually stand up to them?

But, instead of crowdsourcing the movie… why don’t we just stop the problem at the source? Why don’t we crowdsource the assassination of Kim Jong Un? If the government of North Korea is engaging in industrial espionage and making terroristic threats, then I say their days should be counted on the toes on a rattlesnake. If American and global leadership won’t act, then it’s time We The People do.

#KillKimJongUn – Get it trending.

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