Assassination Politics AP

[\0xDynamite]

> >I've been thinking about your AP idea, and think rather than make mock
> contracts on political "targets", which is a bit incendiary, one could
> make headline "bounties" that, if met, get rewarded.  Like "CIA
> director, X, dies from food poisoning".
>
> One possibility would be to implement an AP system, but limit the payout for any one target to a fairly low value, say $1000. (enough to cause a bit of worry).  Then file a lawsuit in Federal Court for an injunction against law enforcement authorities to demand that the legalities of such a system be debated and declared.  'They' would have to explain and document why they thought that such a system was illegal, or admit it would be legal.

Having payouts is pretty risky, because they could claim that you
aided or abetted a criminal act, but the beauty of using headlines is
that you don't have to suggest that anybody get hurt.  You/US have to
be creative.  It puts equal burden on the headline maker to think of
something that gets *righteous* payback without actually hurting
anyone.  AND you get the added bonus of complete separation from the
act.  I shouldn't have used the example of a CIA director dying of
food poisoning, because that could be construed as incentivizing
murder (especially if you're offering payouts).

I think in the end, the right way to handle this is to think
creatively and not use assassination as a model at all, but keep the
payout bounty idea.  People just have to be more creative at getting
payback.

Marxos