Assassination Politics as revenge fantasy (Re: FCPUNX:McVeigh)

[Declan McCullagh]

Actually, Bell's plan was simply the ultimate adolescent revenge fantasy. 
Government thugs got your goat (or your computers, your car, your guns?)
Wipe them out. Supermarket clerk taking too long? Rub her out. Minivan cut
you off on the way to work? Kill them off. 

When I pointed out to Bell that his plan if implemented would allow you to
knock off not just government thugs but annoying neighbors, his response
was that assassins might opt only to eradicate the Feds -- hardly a
reassuring thought.

-Declan


On Sat, 7 Jun 1997 jamesd at echeque.com wrote:

> At 12:42 PM 6/4/97 -0400, Hallam-Baker wrote:
> > Bell's Murder Politics scheme was a censorship scheme.
> 
> Surely people would be more inclined to kill politicians 
> for what they do, rather than what they say.
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