Outcry over portrayals should apply to all
In his Jan. 19 letter, Ted Pacut of Bloomingdale asks, "How would we like it if, say, Russia made a movie with a look-alike President Obama and a plot to kill him? Freedom of speech has nothing to do with it. It is a stupid, dangerous thing to do."
Although I don't necessarily disagree with much of Mr. Pacut's letter, I'd like to point out that there was an absence of public outcry for a 2006 British movie, filmed in Chicago, "Death of a President" that portrayed the assassination of then sitting President George W. Bush.
Apparently, it's "stupid and dangerous" only if we don't care for the target of the docudrama's assassination attempt.
Michael Diaferia Schaumburg
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