At 12:19 PM 1/18/01 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
According to Rep. Barr, however, "These Executive orders limit the swift, sure, and precise action needed by the United States to protect our national security."
Rep. Barr did not indicate exactly who he wants the Government to assassinate. His bill does say, encouragingly, that assassination "is a remedy which should be used sparingly."
It's obviously to prevent another Clinton administration, just as it was used to prevent various Kennedy administrations :-) Also takes care of any lingering Gore recount problems. Constitutionally, before you assassinate someone, you have to propery indict the target and hold a trial in which he or she is present, has a lawyer available, and is allowed to question the witnesses and appeal whether any sentence of death is cruel or unusual punishment. _Then_ you can sneak up on them and kill them, or poison their cigars, or give them an Israeli cellphone or a Ford Pinto. "You can't arrest him, he's a Sovereign" "So declare war on him" "That's a dumb move against someone with nuclear weapons" Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639