CDR: Re: Jim Bell

[David Honig]

At 08:21 PM 11/28/00 -0800, Ray Dillinger wrote:
>I see no reason why I personally should be called upon to be 
>part of that machinery though -- nor any good reason why, if 
>called, I should comply.

Well, I'm into Thoreau too.  Even swam in his pond once.

The point of any serious futurist (including JB) is to look to
possibilities... AP is possible and probable... given certain
infrastructures.  

Bell:AP::Tesla:AC

Or not.

>>If 
>>the US could construct an anonymous payment system that only works
>>for <insert country here>, they'd have uses for it.
>
>Yep.  This is pretty much my opinion about the whole assassination 
>thing; if an anonymous market for assassination existed, people 
>would be likely to use it the way the traditional assassination 
>markets are used; Governments to eliminate dissidents, major 
>corporations to eliminate competitors with better products and 
>innovators with ideas that threaten major markets, and the sheeple 
>to get rid of the people their spouses were sleeping with (or maybe 
>their spouses).  Millionaire brats would use it to accellerate 
>their inheritances, rogue cops would use it to destroy people whom 
>they were unable to get quality evidence on, etc...  Bell's idea 
>that government would feel the lash more deeply than anyone else 
>is plain nuts IMO.

I can't argue with that.  An armed, anonymous society is a damned 
polite society.  Paraphrasing you know who.

>Anybody want to bet Jeff Gordon has more money to spend on AP than 
>James Bell?  I mean, if it came down to it, who could afford to have 
>whom eliminated?
>
>				Bear

If Alfred Nobel were blown up by dynamite, it would not be
significant, only ironic.

Cheers,

DH