Topic: How important does a person have to be
Ladylid2012's photo
Wed 05/04/11 02:58 PM



before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?

metalwing's photo
Wed 05/04/11 03:09 PM




before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?


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TxsGal3333's photo
Wed 05/04/11 03:42 PM
Assassination suggests a political motive, murder does not. You could say that assassination is murder+politics.

EquusDancer's photo
Wed 05/04/11 03:55 PM
It just sounds better. It's the same thing.

Like euthanizing sounds so much better then a person just killed an animal. We won't even get into the word culling....

vivian2981's photo
Wed 05/04/11 03:57 PM
He wasn't murdered...He was killed for acts of war.....good grief...what do y'all want? For him to be alive and attack us again???
Hasn't he MURDERED enough of us? JMO

lulu24's photo
Wed 05/04/11 03:59 PM

Assassination suggests a political motive, murder does not. You could say that assassination is murder+politics.

kristi, i think that's a very good definition.

mightymoe's photo
Wed 05/04/11 04:01 PM
does it really matter? he dead, i'm happy with that... the government is going to lie no matter what, so who really cares about correct terminology?

BettyB's photo
Wed 05/04/11 04:09 PM
If anybody in this world ever deserved to be assainated , murdered whatever it was him!!

Dragoness's photo
Wed 05/04/11 04:10 PM
as·sas·si·nate (-ss-nt)
tr.v. as·sas·si·nat·ed, as·sas·si·nat·ing, as·sas·si·nates
1. To murder (a prominent person) by surprise attack, as for political reasons.
2. To destroy or injure treacherously: assassinate a rival's character.

All you have to be is prominent and be killed for political reasons.

prominent-adjective apparent, bold, brilliant, consequential, conspicuous, credited, dignified, discernible, distinct, distinctive, distinguished, elevated, eminent, evident, exalted, extended, famous, flagrant, foremost, glaring, honored, illustrious, important, influential, jutting, known, leading, lofty, main, marked, memorable, noble, notable, noticeable, notorious, obtrusive, obvious, outstanding, powerful, preeminent, principal, projecting, prominens, pronounced, protruding, protrusive, protuberant, raised, recognizable, relieved, remarkable, renowned, respected, rising, salient, showy, significant, striking, upmost, visible, weighty, well-known, well-marked, well-seen

So yea it can be described an assassination to those who feel so.

Jess642's photo
Wed 05/04/11 04:45 PM
Edited by Jess642 on Wed 05/04/11 04:47 PM
Not very important at all....


A person's character can be assassinated.

A person's credibility.

It's a word...and we all attach our own perception to it.

I suspect the 'apparent' person in question was 'killed' in one faction's mind...another faction will see it as an 'assassination'...yet another faction will see it as murder.


It depends on the perspective with which you see from....and also the energy attached to it.

no photo
Wed 05/04/11 04:55 PM
does it really matter? he dead, i'm happy with that... the government is going to lie no matter what, so who really cares about correct terminology?



Ain't THAT the truth?

DonnieDarko's photo
Wed 05/04/11 05:20 PM
assassination has a cause.
murder has a motive.

Ladylid2012's photo
Thu 05/05/11 02:57 PM

He wasn't murdered...He was killed for acts of war.....good grief...what do y'all want? For him to be alive and attack us again???
Hasn't he MURDERED enough of us? JMO


Wasn't referring to anyone in peticular with the op....
just sayin :smile:

Ladylid2012's photo
Thu 05/05/11 02:59 PM
A few of the same responses I see......
I'm not asking this question because of Osama or anyone else in peticular. A general question is all.

ron62449's photo
Thu 05/05/11 04:43 PM

Assassination suggests a political motive, murder does not. You could say that assassination is murder+politics.


Political Motive? But I've heard it said that John Lennon was assassinated.

Ron

TexasScoundrel's photo
Fri 05/06/11 05:14 AM




before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?


Important enough to need to hire a pro to take them out?