Re: Assassination Politics, was Kiddie porn on the Internet

>From: kwheeler@intellinet.com
>Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:54:35 -0500
>X-Sender: kwheeler@intellinet.com
>To: Michelle Thompson <mthompso>
>Subject: Re: Assassination Politics, was Kiddie porn on the Internet

Interesting information from a friend of mine-

>An american can not serve for pay for a position in another military
>that could be filled by local populace.  I may have my jurisdiction 
>wrong tho, this could be an international law not a US law.  
>Basically, you can't go be a grunt or an assasin in another country, 
>because they can find their own, but one can, however, fly P-40 Warhawks
for >China in 1941 because there were no chinese planes/pilots.  Guys from
soldier >of fortune (tho they do volunteer work) could be hired as 'experts'
at >whatever, removing mines, etc...  It's very touchy.  But, the worst
thing about >it all, is that the geneva convention doesn't protect
mercenaries....so awful >things could be done to them, and the world
wouldn't see that as war crimes.
>
>-Keith

I believe that with the breakdown of the traditional sense of sovereignty,
mercenary activity, whether military or commercial in nature, will increase.
Engineering seems to be quite mercenary already, and very international.
Marketing and advertising, to a novice (me), seem to be going the same way. 

Hence my interest in cryptography. Data security is essential in
international engineering projects.

Michelle Thompson

On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Michelle Thompson wrote:

> Interesting information from a friend of mine-
>
> >An american can not serve for pay for a position in another military
> >that could be filled by local populace.  I may have my jurisdiction
> >wrong tho, this could be an international law not a US law.
> >Basically, you can't go be a grunt or an assasin in another country,
> >because they can find their own,

What about the French Foreign Legion? or the Volunteers for Israel,
which isn't really a fighting force, but Americans can help keep
the Israeli army at a ready state.

> I believe that with the breakdown of the traditional sense of sovereignty,
> mercenary activity, whether military or commercial in nature, will increase.
> Engineering seems to be quite mercenary already, and very international.
> Marketing and advertising, to a novice (me), seem to be going the same way.

Depends on what you would qualify as being mercenary work, Would Americans
working on North Sea oil platforms getting paid $70,000+ a year tax free
be considered a mercenary? Or going down to the islands and opening a
data haven? Or maybe being the engineer for the Sultan of Brunei?

Marketing and advertising has always been mercenary work for as long
as I have been in it, Ask any number of freelancers who have been
slogging it out in the trenches.

William Knowles
President
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