At 05:48 PM 9/23/96 -0400, hallam@vesuvius.ai.mit.edu wrote:

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When the IRA attemoted to assasinate my cousin I was in no way intimidated and neither was he. He continued as a senior poitician for over a decade despite continued danger. I can think of no less effective method of bringing about change in attitudes.

I don't think you truly understood the *mechanism* of AP. Your cousin was threatened from an outside attack. Protection is relatively easy in that case. AP generates a threath * within * every * part * of every structure (family, work, friends, etc). As an analogy, when specialized demolishing team blows a building down, they don't use one big charge, they use hundreds of them to severe every load bearing member of the structure. AP would work the same, turning every person a potential motiveless assassin. I say "motiveless" because AP makes the motive not traceable to peoples or assets. Some AP assassins will get caught, but it is predictable that it will only be a minority and that with time, the percentage of caught assassins will get smaller as more professionnal assassin gets seriously into the business. JFA Please reply by e-mail as I am not anymore on Cypherpunks. Thanks Jean-Francois Avon, Montreal QC Canada DePompadour, Societe d'Importation Ltee Finest Limoges porcelain and crystal JFA Technologies, R&D consultant physicists and engineers, LabView programming PGP keys at: http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon ID# C58ADD0D : 529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891