From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
To: “James A. Donald” <jamesd@echeque.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1997-08-25 19:03:55 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 03:03:55 +0800
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 03:03:55 +0800
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Subject: Re: FCPUNX:Socio-Economic Cults (Re: CypherPunk Cults)
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At 07:03 AM 8/23/97 -0700, James A. Donald wrote:
>Use the beef futures tactic: Somebody placed a bet on beef going up.
>If it goes up, it was Tim's offshore corporation that bet on it. If it
>goes down, it was Tim that bet on it. Gee, it seems that Tim has had
>a run of bad luck in his gambling on the futures market.
Or you get sued for libel by an Anguillan investment consulting company,
and have to settle out of court. I just hate it when that happens.
(You might need to set up a US branch for your Anguillan company first...)
(That approach has been used in at least one case to work around
anti-freedom-of-speech (er, campaign finance reform) laws.)
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