Aimee wrote: >Assassination has proven a poor political >solution for revolutionary climates, People's >War, and political agendas. Killing only gets >you a body. Michael Collins was proficient >(Anglo-Irish War >1916-1921), but even he caught > the bullet -- and he had a lot of things going >for him that some of you don't. Ever since, >people have tried to use assassination as a tool >for this genre of warfare. The problem is >reprisals and replacement.
Sure, but as any member of a Mossad Kidon worth his (or her) salt can tell you, the real trick lies in making a death look like a result of "natural causes". If the killer was skillful to the point that nobody can even recognize it an assassination, I'd call that a success. As someone I knew who used to work for the US government once told me, the only "perfect crime" is the one for which you aren't even a suspect. Perfectly sound reasoning--and if he knew this as a civilian there's no reason on this earth to think he would forget it the minute he signed up at the DO. > If you go around and just start killing people, >you will be branded with criminality, rather >than a people's cause. Absolutely. Which is why the ex-military white trash lowlifes hired by CIA to do wetwork wrap themselves in patriotism, the finest "just cause" of all. I know those qualifiers are going to sound a little harsh but if you ever met one you'd know what I mean. I don't mean to imply they aren't genuinely and sincerely patriotic, either. They are. Which makes the whole enterprise even stranger. >Assuming AP was possible, why would ANYBODY want >uncontrolled assassination? Drug lords, mobsters and government security agencies all know assassination is pretty damn close to "uncontrolled" right now. It's only these fatass cerebral couch potato commandos and schizoid tech nerds who don't have the skills and/or courage of their convictions to actually put down the snackycakes, get off the fucking couch and make something happen who think AP is anything to write home about. There's not a doubt in my mind people use encryption to facilitate assasinations as it is. AP is just a loser's wet dream: "what if we weren't so abysmally impotent!" "what if someone paid attention to me!" "What if I could use the four bucks my mother gave me to KILLL someone who said something I didn't like on a mailing list!" Fucking pathetic. >Also, in today's culture, anonymous >assassination is not want most assassins >want. They want identification, because of >the "pussy-profile" associated >with amateur assassins, and assassination meme >followers. Government assassins don't share this motivation. What this implies about your use of the word "most" remains to be seen. *** "When badgers fight, then everyone's a foe." --John Clare. -- Safe-email.net (SSL) - http://www.safe-email.net
