-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 01:45 PM 3/9/96 -0500, Jean-Francois Avon (JFA Technologies, QC, Canada) wrote:

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At 10:42 PM 3/8/96 -0800, Bill Frantz wrote:

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(1) Assassination Politics (AP) will be most useful to a fired-up group of people who want to silence a single person. Madeline Murray O'Hare comes to mind. (She was a Texas atheist who challenged school prayer and won.)

I quote this text as an example of an ongoing thought process in the analysis of the AP scheme. A little statistical mechanics would not hurt here. The above example shows *one* possible interaction between two entities, each having their own charac- teristics leading to a given inter- action. But in all theses examples, the specific variables that is forgotten is the time variable.

What will be the *dynamic* characteristics of such a system. - the above paragraph describe an interaction in a given direction. - what are the others interactions that could *speed up* the above process - what are the others interactions that could *slow down* the above process Any analysis of the problem that blanks out the probability of occurence (which happens in the time domain) of each partial reaction cannot describe the outcome of the scheme.

Ever since I started publicizing my "Assassination Politics" idea, I've noticed that self-selected opponents of this idea frequently invent these hypothetical scenarios to try to criticize it. Now, I can't deny that any given scenario can happen, but I respond that I don't believe that it would occur very frequently, and I usually give reasons why. I don't normally get any kind of challenge to this: They've shot their wad, so to speak.

Proponents of such a scheme should stick a bit more to crypto...

Well, I agree, but keep in mind that the text you quoted above was apparently written by a critic, not a proponent. Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com Klaatu Burada Nikto -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMUH8TPqHVDBboB2dAQG68QP/Uzlblek07Fihu73pDWw/Tf50QK92x4hY j6qeP0lgnFjn4Y2k3ELYv4DbxpJi5vJM4Z/7CIZZaWJnHSeoT9QBF9D3GG88N/5q OjGN1Wwe3b4wHmuaEPen5CWEUfAFFE51zdlBknjYWUBqBKOsZ9lfqoMCKGysqshR gW9UH9zicsA= =qubI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----