Someone at the Pentagon read Shockwave Rider over the weekend
Tim May
timcmay at got.net
Tue Jul 29 11:06:09 PDT 2003
On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 09:26 AM, Bill Stewart wrote:
> Also, NYT Article was
> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/politics/29TERR.html?th
>
> But it sounds like they've chickened out, because various people
> freaked
> about the implications. (And they only got as far as it being
> "an incentive to commit terrorism", without getting to
> "a funding method for terrorism" or to "Assassination Politics".)
>
>
Not to mention the obvious problems with letting government agents bid
on things like when various unwanted foreign leaders would be
assassinated. Gee, maybe SEAL Team 6 can do an office bid, using
anonymous cutouts of course, on when SEALs will go ashore at Bandar
Abbas to liquidate the Iranian prime minister? Or maybe a CIA wet work
guy can make a few extra bucks in the dead pool by correctly predicting
the death of the next Vince Foster?
Besides being problematic in its own right, it also leaks information,
a kind of covert covert channel, ironically. If the bids are truly
untraceable (fat chance--the password scheme looked like a trival,
breakable Gen 1 security system) then those with knowledge of
operations can make money by using their knowledge, all untraceably.
This was obvious long before Jim Bell became infamous. Check out
writings by some of us dating back to 1988.
Once again, government sets itself up as being outside the law. If I
were to even make a snide remark about the assassination of You Know
Who, I'd get a visit from the SS.
Fucking proof that D.C. needs to be obliterated in an act of freedom
fighting. Gets rid of a passal of welfare addicts, too.
--Tim May
"Ben Franklin warned us that those who would trade liberty for a little
bit of temporary security deserve neither. This is the path we are now
racing down, with American flags fluttering."-- Tim May, on events
following 9/11/2001
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