On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:58:45 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
First, I notice you don't identify the comment that his comment responds to. This, his reaction, is probably explained by the principle "Not Invented Here".
metzger is obviously commenting on assasination politics. And he's quite mad because some ppl are planning to kill his beloved politicians. Metzger is the typical fascist asshole posing as 'libertarian' who shows his true colors as soon as some actual libertarian proposal is made. Anyway, I saw the message by chance, sort of, and thought it was a nice example of self-parody. now, searches for "assasination" - some relevant hits ------ From: Anonymous <nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 93 15:49:32 PST Subject: Highway song No, the Data Highway won't likely tolerate "sealed loads" that might be accessing offshore gambling dens, kiddie porn rings, or weapons secret information markets (not to mention the ever-worrisome anonymous markets for assasinations...child's play with digital remailers and digital cash). ------------------- From: doug@OpenMind.com (Doug Cutrell) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 94 12:40:48 PDT Subject: Black Cryptoanarchy (KKK, monopolies, contract killing) Even apart from this, the availability of truly secure anonymity, strong encryption, and untraceable digital cash could allow contract killing to be an openly conducted business. For example, an anonymous news post announces a public key which is to be used to encode a contract kill order, along with a digital cash payment. The person placing the contract need only anonymously place the encrypted message in alt.test. Perhaps it is even possible to make it impossible to tell that the message was encrypted with the contract killer's public key (the killer would have to attempt decryption of all similarly encoded messages on alt.test, but that might be quite feasible). Thus it could be completely risk free for anyone to place a contract on anyone else. ------------------- From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May) Date: Sat, 17 Sep 94 10:47:00 PDT Subject: (fwd) "Will You Be a Terrorist?" I will not be surprised to hear that the Cypherpunks group is classified as a terrorist group, for a variety of reasons (not the least of which was the "liberation" of the RC4 code, the Mykotronx-government deal info, the debates about undermining the government, the talk of assasination markets, etc.). ------------------- From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 95 18:55:45 PDT Subject: Re: Forgery, bills, and the Four Horsemen (Articles and Comment) Ecash of course is of *no* value for the various assasination markets, drug dealing, money laundring, etc that routinely get mentioned in the same paragraph as Ecash. The reason is the *full traceability* of the payee that has been deliberately built into the current version of Ecash. A "feature" that you may rest assured will be part of all future versions backed by anyone with even marginal reputation in the financial markets. -------- first hit for "Assasination Politics" I can find is this --------- From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 10:41:06 +0800 Subject: Re: Reasons in support of crypto-anarchy WAS Re: Why am I wrong? I had been working on a series of questions/problems with the Assasination Politics idea as initially presented, to be sent to Jim and to people on the NWLIBERTARIANS list, as he requested, but you've kind of preempted one of them /snip --------------