> >I've been thinking about your AP idea, and think rather than make mock > contracts on political "targets", which is a bit incendiary, one could > make headline "bounties" that, if met, get rewarded. Like "CIA > director, X, dies from food poisoning". > > One possibility would be to implement an AP system, but limit the payout for > any one target to a fairly low value, say $1000. (enough to cause a bit of > worry). Then file a lawsuit in Federal Court for an injunction against law > enforcement authorities to demand that the legalities of such a system be > debated and declared. 'They' would have to explain and document why they > thought that such a system was illegal, or admit it would be legal.
Having payouts is pretty risky, because they could claim that you aided or abetted a criminal act, but the beauty of using headlines is that you don't have to suggest that anybody get hurt. You/US have to be creative. It puts equal burden on the headline maker to think of something that gets *righteous* payback without actually hurting anyone. AND you get the added bonus of complete separation from the act. I shouldn't have used the example of a CIA director dying of food poisoning, because that could be construed as incentivizing murder (especially if you're offering payouts). I think in the end, the right way to handle this is to think creatively and not use assassination as a model at all, but keep the payout bounty idea. People just have to be more creative at getting payback. Marxos
