From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 15:22:57 MST
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Samantha Atkins
> > [to Spike: Generally I think it's none of the government's business
> > what I like to read, ingest, listen to, play with, travel to, spend
> > my money on, spend my time with, keep on my hard disk, and so on.
> > As time passes, it looks to me like it is easier, not hardier to
> > form a dossier on anyone that they want for the sparsest of reasons.
> > The direction that the 'War on Terrorism' is following seems to be
> > a carbon copy of the 'War on Drugs', but with the amplification factor
> > cranked up a few orders of magnitude. Assumed Guilty, the individual
> > must prove their Innocence. This is not the kind of political climate
> > that supports intelligent people.]
> >
>
> Amen. Folks, it is time to rebel. I don't know exactly what the
> rebellion will look like yet. But I am increasingly of the
> opinion that if we do not rebel now we soon will not be able to
> at all. The heat beneath the frog (ourselves) in the pot of
> water is being turned up relentlessly. We might want to jump
> out now while we are still able to.
The best soft-landing rebellion is effective tax competition. Setting up
entire alternate economies using serious crypto and distributed digital
bearer certificate systems that governments can't touch.
Reason
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