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Re: The Grand Compromise is Coming

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Weinstein)
Wed Jun 25 03:23:40 1997

Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 23:23:00 -0700
From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Reply-To: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>

Tim May wrote:
> 
> I've heard more of my friends saying that Congress just ought to be
> blown up than I ever would have imagined a few years ago.

This is what I've heard referred to as the "_Debt of Honor_ scenario",
referring to the Clancy book of that name.  In it, an airliner was
crashed into a joint session of congress.

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