No, Mr. Busby, there is a Santa Claus.

[jim bell]

 What months  of emails are missing?  By my recollection, nearly all postings in the 1995 archive file end February 14, 1995, and resume about July 11, 1995.  (there are a very few during this period, though.)   I think this simulates a 'data loss'.But, very few postings mentioning "Jim Bell", "jimbell at pacifier.com", " ap ", "assassination politics"  occur even after July 11, 1995:  Just a handful in November and December 1995.
One possibility is that 'they' were trying to make my AP look like it appeared 8 months after it actually did.  What happened on April 19, 1995?  The Oklahoma City Bombing.  (OKCB).  It is an expected fact that populations are likely to be more sympathetic to extreme government reactions if they seem to be 'under attack'.  A historian studying the (faked) archive would conclude that AP must have been first publicized November 1995, well after the truth:  February 1995.  
I wrote AP in the shadow of the Ruby Ridge incident in August 1992, and the Waco Texas incident which occurred April 1993.  By January 1995, it was obvious that no Federal employee was going to be punished for those matters, and certainly not adequately.  But I also knew that the public had no mechanism to force that punishment, which was very much needed.   I invented what I soon labelled "Assassination Politics", realized that it was the tool the public needed, and wrote the essay and publicized it.  
The Federal Government began spying on me almost immediately, and in fact about 2 months prior to the OKCB.  By making it appear that AP was written and published in November 1995, they invert this relationship and perhaps make it appear that I sympathized with the OKCB, where instead I wanted to make such incidents totally unnecessary.
Those who faked the archive may also have deleted other emails, figuring that if they had only deleted a few, we would eventually learn what those few emails were.  By deleting perhaps thousands, they concealed what was done.
               Jim Bell


    On Tuesday, November 12, 2019, 09:39:07 PM PST, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 A fuller copy that subscribed to Toad floated here,
it's in a shit format. So people should always feel
free to post / send / link whatever they have.

Anyway, in it, Jim's '/(jim|james).*bell/i' first...

- msg is
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 16:10:53 -0800

- mention of /ass?ass?inn?ation/i is
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 11:25:42 -0800

which reads...

If you've been following my idea, "assassination politics," you know that
there is an excellent use for payee-anonymous digital cash.


First mention of '/ass?ass?inn?ation pol/i'
in the entire copy is Jim's above...
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 11:25:42 -0800



This may mean...

- Posts implied by the "following" context above
occurred earlier elsewhere that was not being fed to Toad
(elsewhere could include some non-cpunks channel[s]),
and Jim switched to Toad later by first date above.

- Some other cpunks remailer variation on that.

- Censorship of two independant archive sources.
Perhaps a bit unlikely since the serialization format
of the Toad source seems intact (Yahoo failed its
own serialization, and Venona/Cryptome has none).


Exactly what months, and or other specific elements
and or posts, are people saying are missing again?


Then there was...

nntp:talk.politics.assassination
Scientific American Oct 77
The Economist March 2 96
  
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