jimbellproject.org is looking for volunteers

Marina Brown catskillmarina at gmail.com
Thu Oct 26 12:16:13 PDT 2017


On 10/26/2017 12:11 PM, jim bell wrote:
> *From:*Volunteer <getalookatmyf at cock.email>
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>> jim bell jdb10987 at yahoo.com
>> Fri Oct 13 05:42:04 PDT 2017
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> 
>>> eliminate taxes
>>> tax bitcoin owners
>>> gibs me 1/1000th
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>>Lol.  What a libertarian.
>>Sounds more like a tyrannical king.
>>Gibs me 1/1000 nights with your wife.
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> You have a very vague objection.  Nevertheless, I will address it.   
> Freedom is not free.  Like other products, it costs money, and a person
> who offers the possibility of it is not responsible for the lack of it. 
> For instance, the local grocery store doesn't make me hungry, though it
> sells products to relieve my hunger.  Walmart sells tens of thousands of
> products, but it doesn't make me need any of them.  Do you already
> resent product-sellers who offer products that you need or like to
> have?  If not, why not?
> 
> 
> I'd like to offer people freedom.  Ideally it wouldn't cost anything,
> but that's not possible now.  22 years ago, I invented/discovered my AP
> concept, and since then virtually nobody has argued that if properly
> implemented, it won't work.  The cost, in principle, would be
> exceedingly low.  For instance, it looks like the new Defense budget for
> America will be over $700 billion.   AP could easily protect the region
> formerly known as "The United States" for less than 1/100 that.  ($7
> billion could kill 700 threatening world leaders, and each of their
> successors, if the cost to kill one is $10 million.  
> 
> Are you willing to dispute this?
> 

To play devils advocate AP with a good sized budged might make the world
balkanize into territories controlled by warlords who never come out of
their forts. Sadly there probably will always be people who think they
can't die or who become scarier than anyone who would try to assassinate
them.

If one were a tin pot dictator one might hedge their bets by creating an
account with a 20 million dollar reward to kill anyone who assassinated
them.

Of course there will probably be assasins who don't believe they will be
caught or recognize the risk and are willing to take it.

The period before the Taliban took over in N Afghanistan might be a real
world example of AP. Not sure but i do remember people being sold simply
for money.

> Very likely, the actual problem is that you are a Statist.  A Statist is
> a person who wants government, or believes in government.  Maybe not all
> governments, but at least one government.  He believes in government,
> probably in large part, because he thinks he will be (or already is) in
> charge:  
> 

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>               Jim Bell
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