Jim, For the record: I doubt everyone agrees with your "libertarianism is intertwined with assassination politics" line... I suggest that one can believe in minimal government and other libertarian mainstays without seeing a need to kill off those whom we dislike, be they IRS agents or surly supermarket clerks. -Declan On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Jim Bell wrote:
At 00:36 4/20/97 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:
These ideas is of course not new to cypherpunks. We've been talking about them for years. But these ideas are slowly infiltrating the DC body politic. Assassination politics, here we come -- right, Jim? Want to give a speech at Cato?
I'd be proud to do it. Even after everything that's happened so far.
Strike that; ESPECIALLY after everything that's happened so far!
The way I see it, they're going to have to deal with this issue eventually, and it's possible that it won't be obvious to them that libertarianism and AP mix. Indeed, I think they MUST mix; we have no choice in the matter.