REAL assassination politics

[Bryan Green]

on 1/18/01 1:59 PM, Ray Dillinger at bear at sonic.net wrote:

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> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
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>> from fas:
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>> ASSASSINATION POLITICS
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>> In a new bill introduced in the House of Representatives on January 3, Rep.
>> Bob Barr proposed to eliminate the longstanding official prohibition
>> against assassination.
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> Ew, ick. 
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> This seems to be devolving to the level of "Fear and Loathing".
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> Don't these clowns realize where political assassination goes
> once it gets started?  Do they just not read history books?
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> I guess the thing is, there's not only the traditional pitfalls...
> In a world with widespread anonymous communication, there are
> scads of new pitfalls, too.  None of which makes assassination
> look like a good idea.
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> Bear
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Obviously, they are wanting to take care of the Iraq issue........