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Some of you seem to be missing one part of the issue, in treating events as endings. Keep in mind that omniscience indicates knowing everything - not just the end result, but why that result was obtained, how it was obtained, etc. If you were to kill, God would already know exactly how you would do it - all the way down to the motion of every subatomic particle in existence for every instant during the murder.
God doesn't have to do anything to remove 'free will', and if he does, he knew he was going to do it since the 'moment' he existed. Just by knowing every occurance, every twitch every person has ever made, every motion of every insect, every little detail in the universe, at all times simultaneously, we no longer have real 'choice.' We believe we choose to do something, but God already knows we would do it, and since he knew, it was the only possible outcome. Whether God actually physically affects our world is irrelevant to this discussion.
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Sure I have a heart; it's floating in a jar in my closet, along with my tonsils, my appendix, and all of the other useless organs I ripped out.
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