From: Sean Roach <roach_s@alph.swosu.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 10:41:28 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Fighting the cybercensor
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At 09:40 PM 1/27/97 -0500, Phillip M. Hallam-Baker wrote:
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>jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com> wrote in article
<5ch9f2$cuu@life.ai.mit.edu>...
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>> Look, I've proposed what I consider to be a remarkably consistent method to 
>> prevent the kind of political tyranny that you criticize, and I don't see 
>> any recognition of this fact.  
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>Thats because its a whacko solution that has no credibility
>or consistency. 
>
>If anyone tried to set up such a market and a price went out
>on any of the heads of state fantasized about Mr Bell would be 
>dead as a doornail in a week.
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So you're saying that the system would work.  Mr. bell would be targeted, a
price on his head, for starting that very system.  Mr. Bell would be a
martyr, his system being proven by his own death.  It would be some varient
of his idea that would be used to kill him, a bounty.
I think that the system would work, I also think that it would be easiest to
use by those already in possession of the money.
It would take care of part of our overpopulation problem though...