The following video from Rides a Pale Horse is a powerful perspective on “hate speech” and dissent, the difference between protests by the Tea Party movement and those protesting Obama healthcare reform and the not so long ago Iraq war “kill Bush” protests as well as a fictional documentary on the assassination of Bush.

The video contrasts those images to the images of the Tea Party and Obama Healthcare reform protesters which Obama, his administration, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Jimmy Carter, the MSM, and the Left claimed were racist, “hate speech”.

Well worth viewing, the video’s images are a reminder of what the MSM ignored just a few short years ago, the rampant hate speech on the Left, speech which included openly calling for the assassination of a President.

Image from the film, Death of a President

One can only marvel at what the reaction to an “assassinate” Obama film would be today while the assassinate Bush picture, “Death of a President”, a fictional documentary by British Director Gabriel Range was shown at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival.

“It is using the lens of the future to look at the present,” Range said. “It is about issues that have affected us all in the last five years.”

Range claimed his film wouldn’t lead to anyone getting “ideas” in assassinating Bush. How was the film received in Toronto?

The film was shown to a sell-out crowd at the Toronto Film Festival, who applauded at the end of the screening and several times during a question and answer session with the producers.

“It seemed very real,” said audience member Linda Walsh. “I found myself mesmerised.”

Ms Walsh, from Mill Valley, California, said she hoped the film would make people think “about the war, about the Patriot Act, about our judicial system.”

An audience applauding in polite dissent a film which showed the assassination of an American president. A president who was still in office. There’s more.

From the Washington Post:

Rod Liddle, a newspaper and magazine columnist who also makes documentaries for Channel 4, said he thought the Bush film gave voice to a common sentiment in Britain.

“You will never, ever be able to overestimate the degree to which the British people loathe George Bush,” Liddle said. “It will be a free round of drinks in every pub for the person who plays the assassin.”

Liddle said there was nothing wrong about making a documentary about the assassination of a U.S. president, even if it was difficult for some people to watch.

“I don’t find it particularly objectionable, but then I’m not George Bush’s family,” he said. “It seems to me to be a reasonable premise, even if it is uncomfortable.”

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