jimbellproject.org is looking for volunteers

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Fri Oct 13 15:19:40 PDT 2017


On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:53:18AM -0400, Steve Kinney wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/13/2017 08:42 AM, jim bell wrote:
> > JimBellproject.org is looking for volunteers
> 
> >     But importantly, while there I announced my Jim Bell Project, and
> > its  http://jimbellproject.org   website, where is explained that I will
> > be leading my project to study, perfect, publicize, and obtain people's
> > approval of my idea to replace all existing governments with a new
> > system.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KLqi1v2zSE .    That new
> > system is based on my provocatively-named Assassination Politics  (AP)
> > essay  https://cryptome.org/ap.htm    from 1995-6, described as an
> > assassination market in Wikipedia. 
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market  .  That essay has
> > received the scrutiny of the public since Part 1 was finished in early
> > 1995, and has appeared before the public with the long-term helpful
> > assistance of John Young, owner of the Cryptome.org website, at which
> > the text of my AP essay has resided for decades.  
> 
> I am hopeful that I will have the time and etc. to develop at least one
> model for counter-attacking AP, backed by data indicating its
> practicability.  So far my thoughts along these lines are in the "blue
> sky" category, and it would be fun to make a few formal anti-AP
> protocols and plug in real world numbers to see if they really amount to
> anything.  AP would create a whole ecosystem of actors connected in
> novel ways; working out details of their potential interactions would be
> my kind of fun, unless the general ideas I have turn out to be
> unsupportable.  Finding out my notions don't hold water would also be
> fun - of a sort.

Indeed.

The first foundation of AP though is truly anonymous DC +
transactions - if and when the first Assassinated Politician from a
functioning AP project happens, without this foundation, the powers
that be will simply track down some regular mom or pop, slam their
arse in jail for (how long did Jim Bell do?) say 14 years, for their
literally $1.50 USD equivalent in BTC "donation", and this will,
quite literally, scare off almost all customers.

And it won't even matter -how- TPTB decipher this person's $1.50 tx -
they can literally trojan Kaspersky 'on the fly of the end users
update' and blame Russia of course, whilst "leaking" the "fact" that
they're tracking all BTC Tx (even if they're not) - i.e. parallel
construction - it won't make any difference to the mom doing 14
years, or to the 99.9999% majority who will be scared away as a
result...

So end-user secure computing be the second required foundation.

Seems to me we're a --long-- ways off a credible AP based "peaceful
democracy" system on these two points alone.


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