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*** Many [alleged] [[Mossad]] operations qualify for this trope.
*** Gordon Thomas' "Gideon's Spies" details an interesting mix of fact and speculation about the Mossad.
**The reasoning is understandable. Often enough a dictator's victims would like to kill him but even more want to just be rid of him. Dumping him in the care of some state that will take responsibility for his security while he spends the rest of his life in hedonism is a compromise and one might be pardoned for thinking it [[Lesser of Two Evils|less bad]]
* [[Roger Ebert]] is fond of relaying an incident in which [[Mel Brooks]] was stuck on an elevator with an old woman who was griping about how ''[[The Producers]]'' was vulgar, to which he very seriously replied with some hateur, "Madam, it rises ''below'' vulgarity." (Not to be confused with [[Refuge in Vulgarity]]: be sure to read the description of that trope.)
* The state of Georgia finally caved into the pressure to change its state flag in the early 2000s because of its depiction of the Confederate battle flag. The new flag is simply a recreation of the less-famous Confederate ''national'' flag with the state seal within the blue field of stars.
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* ''[HitmanForHire.net]''. If it hadn't been for a terrified woman going to FBI after the "hitman" tried to blackmail her, they might have never realized the man behind it was soliciting actual offers.
* In his ''Dress to Kill'' show, [[Eddie Izzard]] points out that "[hitler] was a mass murdering fuckhead as many important historians have said. But there are other mass murderers who got away with it. Stalin killed many millions, died in his bed. Well done there. Pol Pot killed 1.7 million Cambodians, died under house arrest, age 72. Well done, indeed. And the reason we let them get away with it is because they killed their own people. And we're sort of fine with that. Oh, help yourself, you know we've been trying to kill you for ages, so you kill your own people... Seem to me Hitler killed people next door. Oh, stupid man. After a couple of years: well we won't stand for that, will we? Pol Pot killed 1.7 million people. We can't even deal with that. I think we think that if someone kills someone that's murder you go to prison. You kill ten people, you go to Texas they hit you with a brick, that's what they do. Twenty people, you go to a hospital and they look through a small window at you forever. And over that we can't deal with it. Y'know? Somebody's killed 100,000 people, we're almost going 'well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning.'"
**If there was a liklihood of Pol Pot making a serious effort to [[Take Over the World]] then he would have gotten different treatment. And Stalin was a big worry in his time when he was suspected of that. The reason people cared about Hitler was that he might try to kill ''them'', or someone they were related to, not that he killed people in the generic sense.
**To put it another way, aside from the fact that Hitler was a direct threat to the US, there were a lot of Americans descended from, British, Poles, Frenchmen, Scandinavians, Dutchmen, and Jews. Cambodians just arrived on the scene after Pol Pot and when they did America had had all the war it wanted.
**Then too Hitler's Germany was ''conquered'' and thus
* The BBC/Discovery documentary [[wikipedia:Human Planet|Human Planet]] is about the extremes of humans living in nature. Many of the examples in the episodes go this far.
** In Cambodia a man traverses shallow water in a small boat with his young son to gather hundreds of snakes to sell. When he gets home, his wife implores him to give some snakes to the girls to play with. The segment ends showing the girls wearing living snakes as bracelets and necklaces.<ref>This involves enough snakes to be [[Nightmare Fuel]] for people that aren’t scared of snakes. For those not staring in shocked horror, the little girls making jewelry out of small braided snakes is absurdly hilarious.</ref>
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