[51784] in Cypherpunks
Assasination Politics Thread #3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E. ALLEN SMITH)
Sat Mar 9 19:48:54 1996
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 19:38 EDT
From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
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From: jf_avon@citenet.net (Jean-Francois Avon (JFA Technologies, QC, Canada))
>"E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@mbcl.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>> Has it? Currently, we've got the guys who deal with the public (the
>>politicians and the low-level bureaucrats) and the faceless drones (the rest
>>of the bureaucrats). The politicians can be protected, and already are to
>>some degree. The low-level bureaucrats aren't _that_ likely to be targeted
>>by enough people to make a difference, and the ones who go bad enough to do
>>so can be protected (or sacrificed, if that seems to be the way to keep the
>>public happy). The faceless drones can be even more faceless, and so very
>>hard to target.
>Just a question to you:
>What makes the faceless drones powerfull?
The classification of low-level bureaucrat known as a cop. See above
for the problems with them.
-Allen
