[65643] in Cypherpunks
Re: Assassination Politics, was Kiddie porn on the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Black Unicorn)
Tue Sep 17 03:20:10 1996
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 02:56:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
To: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <v02130503ae6361b73b06@[10.0.2.15]>
On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Steve Schear wrote:
> Someone wrote:
> >The problem is that assasination rarely leads to the installation of
> >a government that is any better. In most cases it gets worse.
[...]
> We've all heard these arguments, but are they true? Who says so, and how
> can they be certain? Jim's suggestion has never, to my knowledge, been
> tried on a consistant, large, scale. When all conventional alternatives
> have been tried and fail, what have we or the starving children got to
> lose?
I think "Lord of the Flies" answers this question quite well.
> Is it legal for citizens of the U.S. to engage in contract killing of
> foreign military, politations, etc? How about U.S. or foreign non-profits?
As to the first, yes. (There are several anti-mercenary statutes on the
books) As to the second, I don't understand the question.
[...]
> -- Steve
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