Though there's nothing new about putting a fatwa on the leader of the free world — heck, The Bard Of Hookset New Hampshire was urging his followers to "Assassinate The President" ages ago —- it isn't often we see such desires expresed in the pages of an established broadsheet. Or failing that, their website. John Moore of Black Box Recorder / Idler / Jesus & Mary Chain fame recently had his Wokingham birthplace marked as a historical site by some of his more irrational acolytes, and he cannot help but consider the possibilities.  From The Guardian :

I would be prepared to wager that even Jodie Foster must have felt a slight tingle of satisfaction when her deranged fan took pot shots at the Gipper on her behalf. Obviously she couldn't say so at the time, and will perhaps have to remain forever schtumm…but it sure beats chocolates as a way of saying "I love you."

I suppose that using a national newspaper to solicit crime is against editorial policy, but should anybody out there feel like having a pop at George W Bush… as an early combined birthday and Christmas present for me, it would not go unappreciated. Just keep my name out of it please, and bear in mind that you would not be able to claim derangement and insanity as a defence against this particular individual.

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