----- Original Message ----- X-Loop: openpgp.net From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>>
Note: I did not originate the title of this thread. I mention this because Certain Prosecutors have taken such things out of context and produced them in court documents as evidence that someone is planning to kill some judge, and as grounds for publishing the Social Security Numbers and home addresses of certain persons. I'd sue these criminals, except there would be no point. Hundreds of thousands in expenses, and in their rigged court rooms. Better to plot vengeance in other ways.
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As for the title of this thread, a lot more than some judges need to be dealt with. Some prosecutors, some Marshal's Service folks, some cops. Hundreds of thousands, overall.
The population of Revolutionary France (1793) was about 25 million. The death toll from The Terror, as I vaguely recall from reading it years ago, was about 19,000. Or, about 0.075% of the population, which is actually quite small when you think about it. The population of the US today is about 260 million. An equivalent per-capita death rate today would be 200,000 people: This is, as I recall, substantially less than the number of people who die early each year due to either alcoholism or tobacco-related diseases. It's probably not coincidence that the selective removal of 200,000 today would likely "do the job", despite the vast difference in today's society and 18th century France. Jim Bell