Re: Assassination Politics--isn't it gambling?

17 Dec 2003

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At 06:00 PM 2/6/96 PST, banelaw@med.com wrote:
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Jim: as to "Assassination Politics."  Isn't the structure you describe
gambling?  Placing money on a prediction, with the correct predictor
winning?
I guess that depends on the laws, doesn't it? <G>   Seriously, though, since 
all the participants are anonymous, and it can all be done from overseas...

Somehow, though, I think politicians will take little solace from knowing 
that they are protected from death only by laws against gambling.
...
And if so, isn't it illegal if done over the wires, i.e., federal
commerce?  I'm not looking for a way to declare your scheme illegal, I'm
just pointing out that there are other angles, especially if done over the
wires.
I'd sure like to read a serious legal analysis of all this.  Maybe all the 
lawyers are too terrified to respond.
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I guess you could move the structure off shore--pity the poor country
hosting such an entity!  If you were at all succesfull, the server accepting
digital cash would be moving from place to place--remember pirate radio?
Presumably, the digital cash could be encrypted with the organization's 
private key, and published (anonymously) on a USENET area, in a way which is 
untraceable and unidentifiable.

Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com

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Re: Assassination Politics--isn't it gambling?

jim bell