Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data
by burkaman on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @05:04PM
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As I said in another comment, this thread was about how average people could influence politicians. Government-sponsored assassinations are a different discussion.
Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data
by nickpsecurity on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @06:30PM
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Assassinating the most corrupt officials on a regular basis could have similar influence. They'd know they could pull schemes for money but would die past a certain point of damage to the people or elimination of their end of constitution. It works similarly.
It would just be harder as they'd have (a) lots more security, (b) most police going after whoever killed them while simultaneously ignoring whatever the politicians were doing, and (c) media protecting them since corruption works to media owners' benefit as well.
Assassinations that have worked so far were done by the power establishment to expand or protect its power. They tend to work. They're rarely needed, though, as they can do things like media spins, disenfranchising voters, regular arrests, and so on.