At 04:28 PM 5/20/96 +0000, Jean-Francois Avon wrote: [quoting Jim Ray>>]

Interesting. Has AP ever popped-up in the conventional medias?

Other than the article I quote in its entirety in Part 8 of AP, an article from the Asahi Evening News (an english-language daily newspaper in Japan), no.

Then, again, I know an awfull lot of people who would applaude Bell. But most of them are not computer litterate. They are from another generation, not brainwashed by "Don't ask what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country"...

Unfortunately, it generally takes knowledge of at least computer networking, with a little knowledge of encryption and a vaguely passing familiarity with digital cash, to understand AP with enough detail to be useful. But I'm constantly amazed at how many people really APPRECIATE the idea, and its ramifications.

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This kind of thinking might authorize a massive Cherokee massacre if it spread, IMO.

Please, do point out the similarities and the differences... I think that the context is very different.

If anything, I think AP would have allowed Indians to defend themselves, had they had access to it.

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We must, as Libertarians, face the fact that taxation we object to is not seen by many people as coercive.

I don't think this is necessary: They need not see that something is wrong to be deterred by the possibility of their agents getting killed doing something that they see as "non-coercive."

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Even then, I prefer the judicial process to the oligarchy this scheme would entail

This scheme is *not* an oligarchy. Pay a visit to any good dictionary near you. Words have precise meaning and it is *much* better to stick to it...

Actually, since it is ruled by money, it might be a "buckarchy", but again, everybody can spare a few bucks, so it might be a democracy too if you insist on twisting the meaning of words.

Yes, I think it would be a good idea to name the resulting society... Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com