From: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 06:46:38 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Word choice
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At 11:07 AM -0500 10/24/98, Anonymous wrote:
>>Bee in the bonnet: A few days before CJ's arrest warrant was issued
>>the DoJ put out a study on the "Shared Traits of Potential Assassins:"
>
>>The traits:
>
>    * To achieve notoriety or fame.
>    * To bring attention to a personal or public problem.
>    * To avenge a perceived wrong; to retaliate for a perceived injury.
>    * To end personal pain; to be removed from society; to be killed.
>    * To save the country or the world; to fix a world problem.
>    * To develop a special relationship with the target.
>    * To make money.
>    * To bring about political change.
>
>How does this differ from the motives of your ordinary politician?
>

	Almost no politician (there are way too many i's in that word) is
there "To end personal pain; to be removed from society; to be killed."

>Post-revolution, will there be caliber limitations when hunting them?


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