On Thursday, August 30, 2001, at 09:50 AM, jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
-- On 27 Aug 2001, at 21:40, Nomen Nescio wrote:
"Freedom fighters in communist-controlled regimes." How much money do they have? More importantly, how much are they willing and able to spend on anonymity/privacy/black-market technologies? These guys aren't rolling in dough.
Freedom fighters are generally funded by expatriates resident in sympathetic foreign countries. These expatriates need C3 equipment to ensure that their money is not being embezzled or misused. By and large they are not using it, and should be.
"Jews hiding their assets in Swiss bank accounts." Financial privacy is in fact potentially big business, but let's face it, most of the customers today are not Jews fearing confiscation by anti-semitic governments. That's not in the cards. Most of the money will be tainted
I find this unlikely. The powerful confiscate from the vulnerable because they want the money, not because the vulnerable are sinners deserving to have their money confiscated.
It is always loudly proclaimed that the money is tainted. When the Swiss banks were receiving the money from jews it was supposedly tainted because it came from jews. Later it was supposedly tainted because it came from nazis. Any money is tainted when someone else wants it.
And in both of these examples I gave, "Nomen Nescio" took a literal reading of the examples. "But Ireland is not a communist regime!" "But they are not Jews!" Examples, like the half dozen I gave, are designed to convey to the reader the range of uses, needs, and justifications. The specific stands for the general. Both Nomen and Aimee are remarkably block-headed in seeing the big picture. --Tim May