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huh?
Remember, they have incredible >amounts of money with which to hire bright but greedy
people. All they have to do is find the people running the "Guess the Death Date" lottery. They
would have great incentive to apply their considerable resources to this end.
Your logic is excellent. But as strange as it may seem, there may be a different way... Let's see,
how do I explain? First, a little diversion that may or may not be relevant to this subject, but
initially won't appear to be so.
Somewhere around 20-25 years ago, I read some item concerning Howard Hughes, the late
billionaire. It described the history of his business ventures, in fields such as aircraft ("Spruce
Goose" is a well-known example) but also mentioned that Hughes Tool was (originally?) into
oil-well drilling equipment.
I don't know how much you know about oil well drilling and drill bits, but they look nothing
like the classic fluted drill bits common in hardware stores. Oil well drill bits consist of multiple
ultra-hard carbide points mounted on rotating shafts mounted at the end of the drill "string," and
these shafts must be connected to the main shaft with bearings. They roll around on the rock,
not sliding, and they "spall" off pieces of rock due to enormous applied pressure.
Oil well drilling is done by lubricating the drilling operation with what is called "drilling mud,"
which is actually a slurry of solids in water, which is primarily used to cool the cutter and wash
away the rock chips and dust produced in the operation. Now, since the rotating cutter wheels
must spin on their axis, that means they have to be run on shafts with bearings installed. These
bearings cannot be perfectly sealed and thus protected against rock and mud dust, and their
useful lifetime is strongly limited by their quality.
And since every time they wear out the whole drill string has to be pulled from the well, that's
an EXTREMELY expensive proposition for well-drillers. So it should not be surprising that
these guys considered bearing quality to be very, very important. A little improvement was
worth a lot of money.
"Quality", to a bearing manufacturer, is strongly related to surface hardness, and traditionally,
the best bearings were (and, mostly, still are) the hardest. But there's a problem: Ultimately, a
very hard circular bearing rotating on a very hard flat surface (especially if its heavily loaded)
applies nearly all its for on a single point (for ball bearings) or on a single line (for roller
bearings) and that eventually causes bearing failure. So there was an upper limit, generally, on
how good you could get in bearings. And the hardest won. Until Hughes.
[don't go to sleep yet... it gets relevant real soon]
According to the source I read, what Hughes Tool did that made them really rich was quite
simple and counter-intuitive: Rather than trying to make his bearings as HARD as you can get,
he made them SOFT, very soft, "almost as soft as lead." (Which, if you know anything about
metals, is very soft indeed.) The bearings deformed on their raceways, spreading out the load
over a far larger area, and the resulting bearings were the best in the business. (He probably also
applied a lot of research into how to avoid "metal fatigue," but that's quite another story.)
Very counter-intuitive, but he "won" precisely because he did exactly the opposite of what
everyone "knew" was the proper way to go. Okay, so that explains a genius who later became a
billionaire who later turned into a neurotic, or worse. "What," you will ask, "does this all have
to do with Assassination Politics?"
Well, to draw an observation originally posited in an essay titled the "Libertech Project," about
7 years ago, libertarians (of all people) are "non-Euclidean thinkers." Basically, this means that
we recognize that the best way to go from "point A" to "point B" is NOT NECESSARILY a
straight line. And like Columbus, who sailed west in order to go east, sometimes it is necessary
to sit down, and totally re-think your strategy if you're trying to accomplish some goal.
By "classical" thinking, "Assassination Politics" would have to be the best, tightest-security,
more protected organization that has ever existed on the face of this planet. Just about EVERY
powerful person would want to kill anybody who had anything to do with such a system. The
codes would have to be unbreakable, the remailers would have to be certain, but most
importantly, each and every participant would have to be perfectly anonymous to even have a
prayer of pulling it off. Especially the operators of such a system. Especially them.
That's classical thinking. And that's what I thought a few months ago. I thought, "it's do-able,
but it's gonna be a lot of work!"
But let's suppose, for a moment, that somebody "pulls a Hughes." Rather than trying to make
the hardest bearings in the world, why doesn't somebody try to make the softest? Rather than
trying their darndest to stay anonymous, or wait and let somebody else implement this system,
why not just "let it all hang out," (as the saying went in the 1960's) and publicly announce that
they're implementing this system, come hell or high water, and invite anyone who wants to
participate to help form what will be the LAST revolution on earth, the one that'll take down
ALL the governments.
This sounds crazy, right? I mean, who wants to die? Who wants to commit suicide just to... just
to... just to... make an ENTIRE WORLD FREE FOREVER? Free from wars, militaries,
governments, taxes, political oppression. Free from the kind of totalitarian governments that
existed and currently exist. Free from the Holocausts that have killed Jews, Cambodians,
Armenians, Russian Kulaks, Iraqi Kurds, Chinese dissidents, Native Americans, and oh so
many others? "Who, exactly, would be stupid enough to risk death to make the world free???"
Everyone who volunteered to fight to fight Hitler, to name just one example. Remember, or
have we forgotten so soon, that occasionally people die to keep the rest of us free. That's the
way it's been for hundreds of years. The United States of America was founded by people who
risked death to shake off the yoke of a government that was, by the standards of the day, not
particularly bad.
Think about it. Somebody had to be the first one to start banging on the Berlin Wall, with a
sledgehammer, in 1989. Somebody had to be the first to walk through. Somebody had to be the
first to stand up and say, "Enough!" And the ironic thing is, the most strangely unusual thing, is
that the entire Eastern Bloc fell, almost bloodlessly, in a couple weeks, because one by one
everybody realized that all that's sometimes required is to finally stand up and be counted, and
to just say no to the government. When the time was right, all it took was a slight push and the
dominoes tumbled down.
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not suggesting that EVERYONE would be identified. The
"donors" to the system would remain perfectly anonymous, and the "guessers" would likewise
be perfectly anonymous, but the organization itself would be made up of real people, who have
published addresses, who have simply decided that they have had enough of the current system
and are going to participate in a PERFECTLY LEGAL enterprise by the laws of the country,
and just DARE the government to try to stop them. The organization wouldn't have to buy ads;
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