This bounced last time. It won't bounce this time. Dear Friends,
Every once, someone comes to me with a message about how we need government to do something useful. Most of these messages seem pretty well intentioned. Just today, an old compatriot from the space migration movement told me that somehow, the federals had to figure out a way to make it legal to declare war on terrorists, even though these terrorists are, like the Barbary pirates of America's war in the 1790s, not really a nation. When I got his message, I pretty much let him have ten screenfuls of retort. So, when someone asked me to put Declan McCullagh in the ashbin with all the other journalists who have socialists leanings, I was none too sure. Then, today, as with nearly every day, Declan sent me a message on his Politech mailing list. Those of you with an interest in these things might well want to visit: "POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list. You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan writes: "[Ick. Another example of why government privacy invasions are so chilling. --Declan]" The original message was from: "From: "John Cieciel" Subject: State of mistrust Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:06:03 -0600 http://www.goupstate.com/docs/Opinion/Editorials/5878.asp "Published: February 21, 2002 State of mistrust South Carolina agencies continue to violate citizens' privacy. This time the state is distributing our children's DNA. Lawmakers need to institute firmer rules on the collection and distribution of individuals' personal information. ________________________________________________________ "Once again South Carolina's state government has proven that it can't be trusted with the personal information it demands from its citizens. South Carolinians had hoped it was a fluke when the state sold the information on 3.5 million people's driver's licenses to a New Hampshire company without their permission or even notification. ... "But last week South Carolinians learned that -- without their knowledge or permission -- the state had created a DNA library on our children. By law, babies are tested for specific genetic diseases after they are born. The state Department of Health and Environmental Control has been saving all of those samples since 1995 in a special deep freeze facility. "State officials told us not to worry." Jim notes: They lied. ... " Without the permission of these DNA donors or their parents, the state has given some of the samples to a genetics laboratory and gave others to the State Law Enforcement Division to help start a DNA databank there." Jim continues: Well, there's more on that story, but you get the idea. Gavage the geese, rape the women, tax the productive, steal everything that is not nailed down, and define as "not nailed down" all things that can be pried up. That appears to be the motto of governments everywhere. So, how does that relate to digital gold? Of course, there is always the stand-by, that the banking cartel has exerted undue influence to effectively destroy all constitutional limits on free governments, perverting them to serve the interests of the bankers. No kidding. But, we have recently been discussing on these lists the possibility that e-gold may not have 133 bars of 400.0000 ounces gold in storage in Zurich, Dubai, and London. Maybe, just maybe, there are bars of gold that weigh more or less than 400.0000 ounces involved. In which case, we may wish to do some sort of an independent audit to find out where our gold is. Which is exactly the sort of inquiry people seem to think that only governments are capable of conducting. I disagree. Not only do I think governments are invariably biased, corrupt, and partial, I think they are incapable of conducting an investigation into anything that would actually benefit the victims of a possible crime, or even the victims of a mistake or series of mistakes. Getting at the truth should involve the self-interest of parties who are motivated to find the truth, rather than see who can pay the judge the largest campaign contribution for his next run for Texas Supreme Court. So, for the further discussion of the independent audit and review of all digital gold currencies, even ones that are only partially backed by gold or other precious metals, I've created a new discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the list. To visit the list, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/auditgold/ To subscribe to receive list messages by e-mail, try: Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The list is published on Yahoo Groups, is unmoderated, and is open to anyone. Right now, the archive is empty and visible to everyone. You can post to [EMAIL PROTECTED] without being a member of the group, but if we start getting a lot of spam, I'll change that so you would have to subscribe to post. I won't be getting those messages in my e-mail. Instead, I'll review them on the web site from time to time. That will keep my responses to a minimum. So, if you have issues with e-gold, with OSGold, with Standard Reserve, or with any other gold currency circulating online, try auditgold. See what we can do for ourselves: self-government is for a free people. Regards, Jim http://www.Cambist.net/ --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
