If the idea of my speaking at Cato is still open, as it certainly should be. (and especially due to 22 more years of fascinating events after this), then I accept the idea. My recent discovery that the CP list archives for 1995 have been enormously tampered-with will add new meaning to my ideas.

Jim Bell

On Saturday, November 16, 2019, 10:34:01 AM PST, jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:

http://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/archive/1997/04/b56db382612a5c494141a94e0ea560096964fc0a80815783e9985253a02dcb01/

Check that out.

From: jimbell@pacifier.com (Jim Bell)
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 13:15:59 -0700 (PDT)
To: Declan McCullagh <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: David Friedman and assassination politics
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At 00:36 4/20/97 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:

>These ideas is of course not new to cypherpunks. We've been talking about
>them for years. But these ideas are slowly infiltrating the DC body
>politic. Assassination politics, here we come -- right, Jim? Want to give
>a speech at Cato? 

I'd be proud to do it.  Even after everything that's happened so far.  

Strike that; ESPECIALLY after everything that's happened so far!

The way I see it, they're going to have to deal with this issue eventually,
and it's possible that it won't be obvious to them that libertarianism and
AP mix.  Indeed, I think they MUST mix; we have no choice in the matter.

Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com