REAL assassination politics

Riad S. Wahby rsw at mit.edu
Fri Jan 19 11:51:32 PST 2001


Bill Stewart <bill.stewart at pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.

Isn't it easier to just give Israel some more military supplies to
help them defend themselves from Palestinians throwing rocks and, oh,
by the way, could you have the Mossad take care of so-and-so?

:-)

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Riad Wahby
rsw at mit.edu
MIT VI-2/A 2002

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