Re: David Friedman and assassination politics

At 00:36 4/20/97 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:

>These ideas is of course not new to cypherpunks. We've been talking about
>them for years. But these ideas are slowly infiltrating the DC body
>politic. Assassination politics, here we come -- right, Jim? Want to give
>a speech at Cato? 

I'd be proud to do it.  Even after everything that's happened so far.  

Strike that; ESPECIALLY after everything that's happened so far!

The way I see it, they're going to have to deal with this issue eventually,
and it's possible that it won't be obvious to them that libertarianism and
AP mix.  Indeed, I think they MUST mix; we have no choice in the matter.


Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com

At 2:13 PM -0700 4/20/97, Declan McCullagh wrote:
 >I suggest that one can
 >believe in minimal government and other libertarian mainstays without
 >seeing a need to kill off those whom we dislike, be they IRS agents or
 >surly supermarket clerks.

  You can, but it takes most of the fun out of it.
-- 
Toto
"The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre"
http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html

Jim,

For the record: I doubt everyone agrees with your "libertarianism is
intertwined with assassination politics" line... I suggest that one can
believe in minimal government and other libertarian mainstays without
seeing a need to kill off those whom we dislike, be they IRS agents or
surly supermarket clerks. 

-Declan


On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Jim Bell wrote:

> At 00:36 4/20/97 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> 
> >These ideas is of course not new to cypherpunks. We've been talking about
> >them for years. But these ideas are slowly infiltrating the DC body
> >politic. Assassination politics, here we come -- right, Jim? Want to give
> >a speech at Cato? 
> 
> I'd be proud to do it.  Even after everything that's happened so far.  
> 
> Strike that; ESPECIALLY after everything that's happened so far!
> 
> The way I see it, they're going to have to deal with this issue eventually,
> and it's possible that it won't be obvious to them that libertarianism and
> AP mix.  Indeed, I think they MUST mix; we have no choice in the matter.

At 2:13 PM -0700 4/20/97, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>For the record: I doubt everyone agrees with your "libertarianism is
>intertwined with assassination politics" line... I suggest that one can
>believe in minimal government and other libertarian mainstays without
>seeing a need to kill off those whom we dislike, be they IRS agents or
>surly supermarket clerks.

I thought I'd pass on this quote:

"Four more jeeks run up to join them.  Y.T. counts two more revolvers and a
pump shotgun.  Any more of these guys and they'll be able to form a
government."

  - Snow Crash p84, Neal Stephenson

I have always thought that what the newspapers call "anarchy" is not the
absence of government, but rather the presence of too many competing
governments.

I prefer nonviolent solutions myself.


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