My original Assassination Politics essay:
   [1]https://cryptome.org/ap.htm
   Comment by Robert Vroman
   [2]https://news.bitcoin.com/the-jim-bell-system-revisited/
     From 2002, republished 2019 in Bitcoin.com
   (Here's the
   other:  [3]http://www.idsa.in/system/files/strategicanalysis_sukumaran_
   0604.pdf   written by R. Sukumaran.)

   "Let me re-emphasize that I have neither the knowledge nor the will to
   implement this system. I certainly don’t like the State, but I would
   rather concentrate my energies on constructive rather than destructive
   solutions. That said, I still think governments everywhere are going to
   be staring down the barrel of an encrypted gun in the near future, and
   this article attempts to explain why, in response to numerous
   objections received since my last article."
   "**The following article is an opinion piece written in 2002 by the
   libertarian author Robert Vroman. Vroman is well known for his
   editorial work writing for [4]anti-state.com. ‘The Jim Bell System
   Revisited’ [5]first published on anti-state.com on August 15, 2002, in
   response to “The Jim Bell System” debate. This is the second
   installment of the series written by Vroman. Check out [6]Bob
   Murphy’s and [7]Adam Young’s response to Vroman’s editorial.
   Bitcoin.com is not responsible for or liable for any opinions, content,
   accuracy or quality within the Op-ed article.**"
   [end partial quote]
   Jim Bell's Comment below:
   These are the kinds of analyses that the Cypherpunks email list never
   accomplished, although as I discovered last year, the 1995 Cypherpunks
   archive has been tampered with to avoid nearly every appearance of a
   discussion about my AP essay.  That failure to deal with the AP idea
   was entirely irresponsible:  The ostensible goal of Cypherpunks was
   always the anti-tyrannical analysis of and resistance to the usage of
   technology against the public, and conversely the active use of
   technology to free the public.
   I should state, now, that I don't believe that whoever deleted those
   1995 Cypherpunks comments did it for benevolent and justifiable
   reasons.  It has been suggested that these messages were deleted as
   some sort of protective reaction to legal events involving me during
   1997 through 2000.
   One reason I reject that idea is that nobody could realistically
   believe that the government didn't already have full copies of the CP
   archive:  To obtain that, all they would have needed to do was to
   subscribe to the CP list during the year of 1995, and all such emails
   would have been quickly copied to them.  Those emails would never have
   been erased, once in government hands.   Why would they, some agents of
   the Federal government, not have done obtained and kept those CP
   emails?  And everybody on CP knew, or at least reasonably suspected,
   that the entire archive had been copied and thus couldn't be erased so
   the government would always have access to it.  Nobody would have
   tampered with the CP archive if their goal had been to keep its
   contents away from the Federal government.  They WOULD have had a
   motive to tamper with the CP archive if they wanted to conceal its
   discussions  from Cypherpunks, as a whole.
   Erasing those emails in the CP archive, if they contained evidence of a
   crime,  would have been an obvious violation of 18 U.S.C. 4,
   "Misprision of Felony".
   [8]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misprision_of_felony    Who would have
   risked that?
     So, if anybody was considering lying about the existence of those
   messages as a consequence of being asked in any sort of legal
   proceeding, that person would have been risking perjury charges even if
   the Cypherpunks archive had been 'successfuly' manipulated.  That is,
   if they considered themselves on the side opposite to the government.
   If, instead, they considered themselves on the side of government, THEN
   they might have decided they had nothing to fear by deleting that
   material.  So, what were the loyalties of the people who were
   maintaining the CP archive during 1995 and later?
    Now, far more than at any other time, the AP idea needs to be
   considered.  Nobody can say that the world doesn't need a solution.  Go
   ahead and try to disprove it, if you can, but as these two articles
   show above, by Robert Vroman and R. Sukumaran, that will not be easy.

                  Jim Bell

References

   1. https://cryptome.org/ap.htm
   2. https://news.bitcoin.com/the-jim-bell-system-revisited/
   3. http://www.idsa.in/system/files/strategicanalysis_sukumaran_0604.pdf
   4. https://web.archive.org/web/20030213085418/http://www.antistate.com/
   5. https://web.archive.org/web/20030212135325/http://www.anti-state.com/article.php?article_id=295
   6. https://web.archive.org/web/20030212135325/http://www.anti-state.com/murphy/murphy17.html
   7. https://web.archive.org/web/20030212135325/http://www.anti-state.com/young/young2.html
   8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misprision_of_felony