Re: e-$ and AP

[Cypherpunk <cp@dangerzone.org>]

Our spies report that on 12:11 PM 4/21/99 -0400, Jean-Francois Avon said:
>[note for newbies: AP = Assasination Politics system by Jim Bell]
>
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>I expect to see many people with price on their head modify their status so 
>that the bounty is not active anymore.  A prize could get awarded to, as an 
>example, "any level so and so IRS agent".  If a given individual wants to 
>reduce the risk, he'll quit his legalized extortion agent job...
>

	Hmm.  Does anyone have more money than the government?  (few if any)  Do
you suppose they would start outsourcing by placing a price on "Anyone
posting to the cypherpunks mailing list"?  This isn't a random flame, but a
more 'cyberpunk' view of the future.  Forget a police state, the government
uses its initial inertia of cash flow to take out all the naysayers.  

	Oops.

I think it's time to start the loyalty screening of all my friends now.
Excuse me.