Art, it's a lot harder for "an alienated, possibly crazy, person" to succeed in killing a president than it is for him to succeed in killing a bunch of anonymous students or other members of the general public in any one of several million possible sites throughout the USA. ;-)

If you don't believe me, try it. Try and kill the president. It ain't easy.

Art, I could with absolute ease get a gun, walk into some school in my town or any town, and kill a bunch of ordinary people (and probably get killed by the police in the process). I could not with absolute ease do that to an American president and my chances of doing so would be very, very slim...like a thousand to one. Presidents know they are in considerable danger of assassination, and they have tremendous security around them at all times. It's part of the job.

LEJ - I don't know or necessarily believe anything about it. I merely strongly suspect that Bush is a figurehead for a neoconservative movement that is deeply entrenched in the government and the military-industrial complex and the international banking system, that those neocons have stolen 2 presidential elections in a row, that they planned the Afghan and Iraq wars long before 911, that 911 was the excuse for going in but not the real reason. I suspect that neocon elements in the US government, CIA, and FBI were complicit in either arranging or assisting the 911 attacks in some way, and that they are complicit in covering that up ever since.

I suspect that the WTC buildings were planted with explosives ahead of time and brought down by controlled demolition. I know that at least one of the 2 towers was hit by a large airplane (because I have seen it on film), and I am about 99% certain that the other one was hit by a large plane too. I wonder about certain aspects regarding those airplanes...but it's a complicated and lengthy subject which I haven't got time for at the moment. I am not so sure about exactly what hit the Pentagon or how...that's a very anomalous situation we have there (for a number of reasons...much conflicting testimony from eyewitnesses for one thing...many oddities about the damage inside and outside the building).

I suspect that the CIA has had a strong Nazi-like character in its chain of command ever since 1946, in that its techniques and attitudes toward society are totalitarian and absolutely criminal in nature. Accordingly, I consider the CIA to be a dire threat to both America and the entire world.

These are all things I suspect, LEJ. How the heck would I be in a position to know them...and by extension...to believe them?

The things I know and believe in life are those things that I have experienced or personally seen in no uncertain terms. The rest is speculation...probabilities...my best guess given all the stuff I've seen and heard secondhand from others.

I suspect many of the things which you say you "believe". I guess we're using the word "believe" a little differently.