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Monday, May 10, 2004
TRAVEL ADVISORY
Following the tragic assassination of Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov at a military parade in Grozny today, the renatoobeidsworld Foreign Office issues the following travel advisory to less than democratic leaders
AVOID MILITARY PARADES!
I don’t get it – you go to extreme lengths to protect yourself and then you just blow it all (literally) by sitting in full unprotected view of thousands of men with guns reviewing a military parade and the military preparedness of your country!
Are you that surprised when one or more of those men with guns decide to give you a more detailed unauthorized close-up demonstration of their weapons and preparedness?
This is akin to going to the Mardi Gras in Rio de Janeiro and being surprised at somebody making a pass at you.
I'll simplify this even further by putting it in the form of a mathematical equation
many armed men who may not all like you + one unarmed you sitting in on a dais in full view = trouble.
North Koreas Kim Jong Mentally-il isn’t as stupid as he looks.
After surviving an assassination attempt whilst on a visit to a military base, he now insists that all soldiers be disarmed for the duration of his visit.
Ten points for Kimbo!
1:34 pm
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