Re: AP

At 04:28 PM 5/20/96 +0000, Jean-Francois Avon wrote:  [quoting Jim Ray>>]

>Interesting.  Has AP ever popped-up in the conventional medias?

Other than the article I quote in its entirety in Part 8 of AP, an article 
from the Asahi Evening News (an english-language daily newspaper in Japan), no.


>Then, again, I know an awfull lot of people who would applaude Bell.  
>But most of them are not computer litterate.  They are from another 
>generation, not brainwashed by "Don't ask what your country can 
>do for you; ask what you can do for your country"...

Unfortunately, it generally takes knowledge of at least computer networking, 
with a little knowledge of encryption and a vaguely passing familiarity with 
digital cash, to understand AP with enough detail to be useful.  But I'm 
constantly amazed at how many people really APPRECIATE the idea, and its 
ramifications.


>> This kind of thinking might authorize a massive Cherokee
>> massacre if it spread, IMO.
>
>Please, do point out the similarities and the differences... I think 
>that the context is very different.

If anything, I think AP would have allowed Indians to defend themselves, had 
they had access to it.

>> We must, as
>> Libertarians, face the fact that taxation we object to is not seen
>> by many people as coercive.

I don't think this is necessary:  They need not see that something is wrong 
to be deterred by the possibility of their agents getting killed doing 
something that they see as "non-coercive."



>> Even then, I prefer the judicial process to the oligarchy
>> this scheme would entail
>
>This scheme is *not* an oligarchy.  Pay a visit to any good dictionary 
>near you.  Words have precise meaning and it is *much* better to 
>stick to it...
>
>Actually, since it is ruled by money, it might be a "buckarchy", but 
>again, everybody can spare a few bucks, so it might be a democracy 
>too if you insist on twisting the meaning of words.

Yes, I think it would be a good idea to name the resulting society...


Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com

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Uni (for whom I have great esteem and no little curiosity about why he lets
Bell send him off into the weeds) said:
>[Yadda Yadda Yadda]
>
>Motion: To create the alt.politics.assassination.politics newsgroup and
>the "AP" mailing list so as to clear the meaningless traffic (for which I
>am significantly responsible) out of this forum.
>
>Any seconds?


Seconded enthusiastically. All in favor, see you in alt.config.

-Paul

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Paul Robichaux <paul@ljl.COM> writes:
> Uni (for whom I have great esteem and no little curiosity about why he lets
> Bell send him off into the weeds) said:

I think they're both having fun, as am I.

> >Motion: To create the alt.politics.assassination.politics newsgroup and
> >the "AP" mailing list so as to clear the meaningless traffic (for which I
> >am significantly responsible) out of this forum.
> >
> >Any seconds?
>
>
> Seconded enthusiastically. All in favor, see you in alt.config.

Objection. talk.politics.assassination is already available on some Usenet
servers. The propagation is appropriate. No new newsgroups are necessary.
Tell the nuriweiller Sovok to take his crituque of AP there.

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On Tue, 21 May 1996, jim bell wrote:

> At 04:28 PM 5/20/96 +0000, Jean-Francois Avon wrote:  [quoting Jim Ray>>]
> 
> >Interesting.  Has AP ever popped-up in the conventional medias?
> 
> Other than the article I quote in its entirety in Part 8 of AP, an article 
> from the Asahi Evening News (an english-language daily newspaper in
> Japan), no.

[Yadda Yadda Yadda]

Motion: To create the alt.politics.assassination.politics newsgroup and
the "AP" mailing list so as to clear the meaningless traffic (for which I
am significantly responsible) out of this forum.

Any seconds?

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