[104900] in Cypherpunks
Re: Word choice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petro)
Fri Oct 30 17:45:37 1998
In-Reply-To: <199810241607.SAA00878@replay.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 15:50:34 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
Reply-To: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
At 11:07 AM -0500 10/24/98, Anonymous wrote:
>>Bee in the bonnet: A few days before CJ's arrest warrant was issued
>>the DoJ put out a study on the "Shared Traits of Potential Assassins:"
>
>>The traits:
>
> * To achieve notoriety or fame.
> * To bring attention to a personal or public problem.
> * To avenge a perceived wrong; to retaliate for a perceived injury.
> * To end personal pain; to be removed from society; to be killed.
> * To save the country or the world; to fix a world problem.
> * To develop a special relationship with the target.
> * To make money.
> * To bring about political change.
>
>How does this differ from the motives of your ordinary politician?
>
Almost no politician (there are way too many i's in that word) is
there "To end personal pain; to be removed from society; to be killed."
>Post-revolution, will there be caliber limitations when hunting them?
--
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jumble of economic irrationality and ignorance. It is a product: (a) of a
gross misinterpretation of history, and (b) of rather na=EFve, and certainly
unrealistic, economic theories." Alan Greenspan, "Anti-trust"
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