How to Survive a Botched Assassination Attempt
The Consequences of Incitement and a couple temporal tips
Just before the people who tried to kill me picked up their weapons— the gun, the knife, the pipe wrench, the suitcase bomb, the broken scissors— here's what they yelled at me, their battle cries of elimination:
Nigger-loving Communist Cunt
Fucking Dyke
Genocidal Woman-Hater
Scum
Slave-Trader
And, I'm really not that big of a deal! I’ve only been on the pointy end… less than a dozen times.
My answer to my headline question: “How do you survive it?” — is a tough one. Regardless of the rhetoric— being on the business end of a gun or a knife, a bomb or a hurtling car, is an exercise in temporal distortion. What one observer on the outside would put a stopwatch to, is entirely different to the those on the spot.
The activation of the threat and its delivery, viewed in seconds, perhaps a minute or two — is for the people involved, a taffy-like suspension. So many things can happen. Minds change. More than once.
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