From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 10:14:48 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Assasination Politics Thread #3
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From: jf_avon@citenet.net (Jean-Francois Avon (JFA Technologies, QC, Canada))

>"E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@mbcl.rutgers.edu> wrote:

>>	Has it? Currently, we've got the guys who deal with the public (the
>>politicians and the low-level bureaucrats) and the faceless drones (the rest
>>of the bureaucrats). The politicians can be protected, and already are to
>>some degree. The low-level bureaucrats aren't _that_ likely to be targeted
>>by enough people to make a difference, and the ones who go bad enough to do
>>so can be protected (or sacrificed, if that seems to be the way to keep the
>>public happy). The faceless drones can be even more faceless, and so very
>>hard to target.

>Just a question to you:

>What makes the faceless drones powerfull?

	The classification of low-level bureaucrat known as a cop. See above
for the problems with them.
	-Allen