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                                             June 07, 2010


  Here's a question:

  Is assasination a force of history,
  or just one of it's manifestations?

  Is it at all plausible to think that you
  can fundamentally alter the course of
  events via an assasination?


      One way of probing for an answer to this
      would be to comb through recent history
      for deaths that *might* have been assasinations,
      and look at how your view of history changes
      if you adjust the assumptions of how and why
      the deaths occured.

      A virtue of this approach is that it
      dodges past the morass of dealing with
      the question of what *did* happen, by        Not that it'll
      admitting up front that you're just          dismiss the inevitable
      considering what might have happened.        knee-jerk criticism
                                                   that it's all just
          Could Senator Paul                       "conspiracy theory".
          Wellstone's air
          crash be an                                 And similarly, it
          engineered event?                           won't stop the
                                                      conspiranoids from
          Instead of trying to sort                   seizing on the work,
          that out, you just put it in                and missing the main
          the stack of "possibles", and               point.
          see how things look if you
          take it either way.

             There remains the difficulty
             of estimating the significance
             of the deaths.

                Did the loss of Paul Wellstone
                change the character of the
                Senate significantly?  For how
                long?




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