Investigators find "assassination" page on the Web

[Steve Mynott <stevem@tightrope.demon.co.uk>]

http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9809/15/internet.hit.list.ap/index.html
   
Investigators find "assassination" page on the Web

   hit.list September 15, 1998
   Web posted at 4:07 PM ET
   
   Portland, Oregon (AP) -- Three Internal Revenue Service agents and a
   federal magistrate are the targets on what's described as an Internet
   "assassination" Web page.
   
   All four have prices on their heads -- in unusual amounts like 512
   dollars and two cents.
   
   IRS investigators think it was posted by a patient in a federal mental
   hospital.
   
   The page is thought to be from an essay called "Assassination
   Politics." That essay -- written by a jailed tax protester --
   describes a supposedly risk-free way to reward those who assassinate
   public officials.
   
   Anyone who wants to see someone killed contributes to a fund which --
   when large enough -- attracts a killer who predicts the date, time and
   location for the deed to be done.
   
   If it happens, the killer is paid with untraceable digital money.

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pgp 1024/D9C69DF9 1997/10/14 steve mynott <steve@tightrope.demon.co.uk>