Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 05:08:57 -0700
From: lawecon@SWLINK.NET ("Craig J. Bolton")
Subject: Re: Fwd: Assassination Politics
To: LIBERTARIANS@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Ya, this guy use to be a regular on Libernet. His downfall was inevitable,
because he never learned the Voltaire rule: "Bow low before your master, so
that the knife may enter his stomach from the correct angle."
At 10:52 PM 4/19/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Finally! Some radical blood has been introduced to The Movement:
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>[Forwarded from another list]:
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>>Jim is the author of "Assassination Politics" and was a regular
>>on the Northwest Libertarians mailing list until the Feds got him.
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>>Story at http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35620,00.html
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>Check out the following excerpt:
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>It's easy enough to dismiss Assassination Politics as a loony idea invented
>by a Theodore Kaczynski wannabe and about as likely to occur as Dan Quayle
>winning a presidential primary.
>
>But then why are the feds so worried? Call it sheer self-interest, but the
>original charges against Bell highlighted the scheme: The IRS accused him of
>"soliciting others to join in a scheme known as 'Assassination Politics'
>whereby those who killed IRS employees would be rewarded."
>
>IRS inspector Jeff Gordon, who now regularly monitors the cypherpunks
>mailing list, took it personally, at one point likening Bell to convicted
>Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Both, Gordon said in 1997, were making
>"plans to assassinate government employees."
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>Fwd by Kent
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