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Show 12 Likewise, Dr. Norton E. Long speaks of "the normality of violence in the social system"19 as if to be non-violent were to be-somehow abnormal. According to JOseph Bornstein,20 the number of particiu pants, victims, and witnesses to political assassination has increased vastly. munication, Because of improved transportation and com- he maintains, assassination "has affected more people and a greater part of the globe than in former centuries, and its results have been felt within a much shorter time." In any event, it is apparent that the pages of history are soaked with the blood of the victims of assassination; that no one is immune from assassination, may be; however powerful he and that the-risks involved are not sufficient deter- rent to assassination. Having said all this, what precisely is political assassination? To call it "political murder" as Bornstein,21 Jaszi and Lewis, 22 and others do is inadequate. Such a definition is so loose as to encompass warfare. lgLong, research paper on "Political'Violence," Brandeis Conference on Violence, December 11-13, 1964, p. 20Bernstein, The Politics of Murder (New YOrk: 3. Wm. Sloane Associates), p. ll. ZlIbid. 22Oscar Jaszi and John D. Lewis, Against The Tyrant: The Tradition and Theory of Tyrannicide (Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1957), p. 149. |
