The PJ Tatler

Hackers Release New Demands: Pull Online Trailers & Don't Allow The Interview to Be Leaked












Question for President Valerie Jarrett: if it’s morally acceptable and necessary to drone Anwar al-Awlaki, why should we not do the same to Kim Jong-un?

The really radical thing about the film is that through humor it gets people thinking about the absurdity of our country’s long-standing, ill-informed policy supposedly prohibiting assassinations of foreign “leaders.”

It’s not just that the federal government should buy The Interview and release it en masse in the public domain. It’s that the common sense policy it advocates through satire is what we should actually be doing: don’t make wars against countries, just drone the criminal tyrants who don’t have a legitimate claim to leadership in the first place.

Deep down, as supposedly crazy and genuinely evil and malevolent as Kim Jong-un is, he probably knows and realizes that the only significant force stopping the U.S. government from completely obliterating him and then bringing Starbucks, Obamacare, gay marriage, and Beyonce albums to North Korea is the weak, morally confused will of the American people. If more people woke up and realized that the American military is technologically capable of defeating thugs like the Kim cult with much less of a risk of loss of life than in past generations, then we’d have leaders in place willing to use our military to do what it was trained and build to do: destroy the enemies of America.

What better, Chicago Way-style message is sent to the world’s dictators that when they hack a studio, and we respond by hacking up their government with drones? What group of slave state-sponsored hackers would dare try and disrupt a film again when the retaliation is World War II-style total war on their bosses and them? What message does that send to those who would target American lives that digital warfare against free states’ commerce, coupled with threats of violence, is met with military warfare?