.>..regarding Assassination Politics: > > Just keep in mind that AP is a joke among knowledgeable > > technologists for >its unworkability, but a wonderful joke > > on those who believe it's anything more than a taunt. > Total bullshit again. Yes, but the reason it's bullshit is that shooting messengers does no good. It leaves intact the originators of the message, all hundred- million of them. Tomorrow, the hundred million will be stumbling over each other trying to empower new messengers to replace those fallen. Who else but the messengers (politicians, bureaucrats, etc.) is going to collect the >money to pay the Social Security, after all? Who else is going to halt the drug trade? Assassination Politics Convicted tax evader Jim Bell proposes a system of anonymous ecash awards for the murder of "aggressors", such as IRS agents. See also Crypto-Convict Won't Recant. What he misses is that his system, if tolerated, would merely force government to operate secretly rather than openly FROM http://world.std.com/~mhuben/cypher.html Jim says in the essay,It doesnt have to be,"wild in the streets"He doesn't miss a trick.He talks of the possibility of minarchy.Does anyone actually read the fucking essay? I part with him on offing forest grunts,btw.Its not about shooting 'messengers'.Its about making very credible threats to limit violence.Paradoxical but effective. Halting the drug trades as imbecilic an idea as a "war on terror" KILLTHEPRESIDENTKILLTHEPRESIDENTFASTERPUSSYCATKILLKILL.
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, mattd wrote:
Jim says in the essay,It doesnt have to be,"wild in the streets"He doesn't miss a trick.He talks of the possibility of minarchy.Does anyone actually read the fucking essay?
Yeah, I read the fucking essay. It's flawed in a variety of ways. It's understanding of human psychology (which it purports to manipulate in realistic ways - not) is so flawed as to make it very tedious.
I part with him on offing forest grunts,btw.Its not about shooting 'messengers'.Its about making very credible threats to limit violence.Paradoxical but effective.
Not paradoxical, hypocritical. And no, it doesn't limit anything (unless there are is so much money being made killing wives, husbands, and competitors there are no more hit men left). It simply provides a mechanism for the 1st party to anonymously hire the 3rd party to kill the 2nd party. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Day by day the Penguins are making me lose my mind. Bumper Sticker The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------
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