At 7:41 PM -0800 5/18/97, Mike Duvos wrote:
Alan Olsen <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com> writes:
IRS agents arrest Vancouver man who called for killing federal workers
As I recall, Bell never called for anyone to be killed. He merely suggested that the construction of anonymous wagering pools would faciliate a market in the disposal of tyrants.
Exactly. I thought it was a mildly interesting idea, but much less practical than using untraceable digital cash directly to hire hits. (And I don't expect to be raided for this observation, by the way. Such observations are obvious to anyone who looks at untraceable digital cash, especially when ancillary services, like untraceable third party escrow services ("You slay, we pay") are just as possible.)
The government is only lending credibility to Bell's paranoia by behaving like jackbooted thugs.
Indeed, if he is tried his ideas will be spread far and wide...and some may even think "Hey, let's try it, except let's target it toward collecting money by our Irish friends for killing of British politicians and royals." (As with Phill Hallam-Baker, this is how I think it will turn out. Ordinary Americans are too sheep-like to donate money to have Janet Reno, for example, killed. We don't get fired up in large enough numbers. Except I'll bet (no pun intended) that a lot of whites would contribute to see certain blacks killed, and vice versa.) Now that Bell has been arrested, if he is _not_ tried, his fame is still assured.
Is this federal agent Bell is supposed to have interfered with one of the agents who arrested him? Sounds like fabrication from whole cloth to me.
Probably covering their asses. Once his home was raided, and the case publicized in the leading papers (apparently tipped off by the cops), kind of hard for them to just back down and say "Oh well." Some DA probably figures he or she can make a political name by prosecuting the first case of "Internet terrorism." Fucking fascists make Bell sound less crazy. Lock and load. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."