From: Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 00:55:56 -0800 (PST)
To: Sean Roach <roach_s@alph.swosu.edu>
Subject: Re: Fighting the cybercensor
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Sean Roach wrote:
> At 08:15 PM 1/28/97 -0800, Steve Schear wrote:
> >I think a hole in your thinking is to assume that the assasins have no
> >motive other than financial gain.  I would submit that there are those that
> >have the skills, training and a political agenda coherent with the
> >wagerers, lacking only the financial incentive to make the risks
> >acceptable.  These wetworkers won't consider accepting the bribe of the
> >rich/powerful

> This may be true, but the example was to show how easy a defensive line
> could be thrown up around the powerful.  For example, conventional body
> guards could be included, ones with no real pay but with the fore knowledge
> that they will be buried with the tyrant.  These body guards could be ten
> children out of each local village.  Merely a human shield.

[snippo]

In Prizzi's Honor, Nicholson sez "If you try to hide in a submarine on
the bottom of the ocean, we will find you".  But it's not even that
difficult.  Lob a missile into the place and blow it up.  Earth
penetrators are getting better too, for the Sadaam types.  And
there's a zillion more.  Does this "rich person" really want to
spend his/her life living in a sealed tomb?