From: "Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+@CMU.EDU>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 10:26:07 +0800
To: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Subject: Re: V-chips, CC, and Motorcycle Helmets
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Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 13-Feb-96 Re: V-chips, CC, and
Motorc.. by Bill Frantz@netcom.com 
> Adding money to the pot will attract rational (and amoral) people who will
> then make a determination based on (1) profit, and (2) risk, which includes
> getting caught or killed.  It seems to me that Secret Service levels of
> protection can protect a public figure against even Assassination Politics.

That may well be true, but speaking as someone who's worked on U.S.
Presidential campaigns, that kind of protection is expensive,
time-consuming, intrusive, and unlikely to be extended.

-Declan