Re: e-$ and AP

["Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>]

On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 12:53:03 -0400, The Sheriff wrote:

>>>While your point about concealed weapons is clear -- and as far as
>>>I'm concerned, correct -- the rest of the two previous paragraphs
>>>were a little fuzzy.
>>
>>Well, what prevents minorities to put a price on majority's head?
>
>I suppose I wasn't saying something like that isn't popular.  I am
>worried, however, about the plight of the minority (intellectual or
>otherwise).  Something like this, I think, makes it easy to
>exterminate undesirables, that's all.

There is another aspect that I did not discuss yet: "undesirable minorities" are 
usually labeled so with the subtle and not-so-subtle help of the medias.

How many individual and non-interconscious bucks will get put on the heads of 
truth distorting reporters?  Reporters will have to stick to report _facts_ and 
let the hundred of millions of individuals draw their own conclusions.
Gone will be the medias's spin doctoring...  Never wondered why the first thing 
any wannabe dictator does it to get control of the medias?

>Well, given the reaction of the common man to my choice of religion,
>I sincerely doubt it.  Even the people who don't harass me think of
>what they see portrayed in movies.  Considering the treatment I get
>today, I really have to consider the worst possible scenario.

I have nothing to answer to that.  It is part of the realm of intuition and 
feelings and I have no experience of your precise context.  My guess is that 
generally speaking, people would become more tolerant.  What about small 
occurences of intolerence?  I ahve no idea.

>And, heck, what happens of someone steals someone else's identity and
>uses it to place a bounty, or can do it anonymously?

It can be done right now anyways.


>Therein lay your
>theory about accountability, the idea that the funding comes from an
>identifiable source.  If it's illegal when it becomes a viable system,
>I would think anonyminity would be a standard.


>I've seen way too much of what society has to offer to say that
>anything is particularly impossible.  I don't doubt the possibility
>of AP becomming reality.  I just don't like it.

Welcome to the club.  Although my cluelessness lead me to draw a few positive 
conclusions about he outcome of AP, it scares the living daylights out of me.  
But since the actual trends of our Rulers do too, I become kinda used to being 
scared...  :-)


>>I suppose that one could prove his innocence publicly.  I hypothetize that
>>"ethical hitmen" will emerge, I hypothetize that non-ethical hitmen will get
>>not eliminated but at least inherently limited by AP itself.  And I suppose
>>that there will be the offer and demand that will work too.
>
>Where's the limitation for unethical hitmen?

Victims of unethical hit hitting on unethical hitmen and system that allows such 
operation.


>Yeah, but the 80% tax rate is something that makes me hesitate.

:-)

><grins> I know a few people who delight in disseminating factiods
>like that

True, they're nothing more than factoids, but some people are working into 
turning them into solid facts.  Among them, ex-RevCan and -IRS agents...


>>Usually, effects have causes.  I don't think that people will put a
>>contract on
>>a given name flat with no explanation.  I suppose people will seek to
>>remediate
>>to the problem they caused if they are truly responsible.  An accute sense of
>>Natural Law will suddenly come back to even the stupidest of scummy rats...
>
>Are you talking Natural Law as C.S. Lewis defines it?

Sorry, I am talking as Natural Law only as I am discovering it and I did not hit 
CSLewis writings yet...


>To sum it up in one sentance -- a new system that is domestic terrorism
>is no worse than an old system that is same, but that doesn't make the
>new system any less evil (or at least abuse-prone).

Or look at it that way: at least the new system would not lie to us about it 
being terrorism...  :-)

As Mao said (quoted as some sort of wisdom (!) in one of the Canadian Firearm 
Center's official newsletter) "power comes from the muzzle of a gun".  Only, when 
Mao said that, while happily killing 50 million of his own educated people, 
smiled because he knew that he was on the safe end of the gun.  AP would flip the 
gun around...

>To be perfectly honest, I wince for Canada -- Probably because it's a lot
>like looking into a mirror.

To be perfectly honest, I am looking for a secondhand Saturn V to refurbish and 
get away before the total shit hit the globe...

Anybody has an aging Saturn V in his scrapyard?

Ciao

jfa

Jean-Francois Avon, Pierrefonds (Montreal), Canada

> Reality Is.
  The Law of Cause and Effects operates, always.
  It is _not_ optional or alterable by wishes.

> One of the biggest crime against humanity is to
  propagate the virus-of-the-mind idea that say that
  the Human Animal is born intrinsically corrupted

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