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Duncan Cary Palmer duncan@sdbitcoiners.com 1 year ago
Hello, @npub1exce...n72a , While I truly appreciate your promotion of bitcoin adoption worldwide, this statement concerns me: > "To my knowledge, there is still rule of law in the US, property rights are still protected, and privacy is enshrined in the Bill of Rights ( @gladstein )." I am concerned because your remark reveals either a woefully dangerous lack of awareness of the present state of the American justice system, or deliberate, willful ignorance thereof for the sake of plausible deniability in your diplomatic adventures. "Rule of law" was deep-sixed decades ago in America, as clearly proven by—for one clear instance—the callous "swatting" of Americans like Larken Rose for merely asking questions about the application of the law. His subsequent trial and conviction was but one of many that prove the United States is nothing more than a third-world, tin-pot dictatorship with NO respect for law, property, or human rights. Of course, while examples like the Rose case and many other clear, public examples of arbitrary state violations of law and property *abound*, news about them has been suppressed by TPTSB (The Powers That Shouldn't Be) and their captive media organizations. Thank God, the covid debacle of the past several years has brought such manipulations to greater awareness among the public. I can personally testify to the utter corruption of state agencies. More than once, a gaggle of armed federal, state, and local agents have crept up to my home and knocked on my door; Why? To deliver a piece of paper that could have been sent through the mail. I have also experience the "joy" of a federal agency FAXing my bank "Give us all his money," to which the bank replied "Here you go." So, I'm placing you on notice; you can NO LONGER assert "there is still rule of law in the US, property rights are still protected." THIS is why #bitcoin is vital for the common man. THIS is why the absolute nature of #bitcoin as property that is #permissionless and #unconfiscatable must be protected by the community at all costs. THIS is why we MUST respond with constant vigilance, particularly making every effort to strengthen bitcoin's decentralization and robustness in the face of existential threats like the FBI, SEC, and all other corrupt state and corporate actors. We of course also welcome the most rapid, globally widespread, universal adoption of bitcoin that you are so admirably working towards, along with the proliferation of tools for its use by everyman. image
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Duncan Cary Palmer duncan@sdbitcoiners.com 1 year ago
My reply to @npub1exce...n72a:
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Hello, @npub1exce...n72a , While I truly appreciate your promotion of bitcoin adoption worldwide, this statement concerns me: > "To my knowledge, there is still rule of law in the US, property rights are still protected, and privacy is enshrined in the Bill of Rights ( @gladstein )." I am concerned because your remark reveals either a woefully dangerous lack of awareness of the present state of the American justice system, or deliberate, willful ignorance thereof for the sake of plausible deniability in your diplomatic adventures. "Rule of law" was deep-sixed decades ago in America, as clearly proven by—for one clear instance—the callous "swatting" of Americans like Larken Rose for merely asking questions about the application of the law. His subsequent trial and conviction was but one of many that prove the United States is nothing more than a third-world, tin-pot dictatorship with NO respect for law, property, or human rights. Of course, while examples like the Rose case and many other clear, public examples of arbitrary state violations of law and property *abound*, news about them has been suppressed by TPTSB (The Powers That Shouldn't Be) and their captive media organizations. Thank God, the covid debacle of the past several years has brought such manipulations to greater awareness among the public. I can personally testify to the utter corruption of state agencies. More than once, a gaggle of armed federal, state, and local agents have crept up to my home and knocked on my door; Why? To deliver a piece of paper that could have been sent through the mail. I have also experience the "joy" of a federal agency FAXing my bank "Give us all his money," to which the bank replied "Here you go." So, I'm placing you on notice; you can NO LONGER assert "there is still rule of law in the US, property rights are still protected." THIS is why #bitcoin is vital for the common man. THIS is why the absolute nature of #bitcoin as property that is #permissionless and #unconfiscatable must be protected by the community at all costs. THIS is why we MUST respond with constant vigilance, particularly making every effort to strengthen bitcoin's decentralization and robustness in the face of existential threats like the FBI, SEC, and all other corrupt state and corporate actors. We of course also welcome the most rapid, globally widespread, universal adoption of bitcoin that you are so admirably working towards, along with the proliferation of tools for its use by everyman. image
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Chris Liss liss@getalby.com 1 year ago
I think both are true. It’s a lawless, tyrannical regime, intent on preserving its power at all costs. Yet there are norms that still require laws to be followed, rights respected, processes adhered to. There is a bizarre duality where if you are calm, articulate and respectful you can get things done. And yet you might also be thrown in prison or worse. I always bristle when someone pretends everything is on the level, like they were just “doing their best” during covid, like they didn’t create the virus, mandate poison and demonize people who wouldn’t take it. On the other hand, I’ve gotten the IRS to help me with documents I needed to get into a good tax situation in Portugal. The agents were totally helpful and friendly. I’m talking about the IRS! just a very strange point in history right now with so many people in total denial amidst seismic change.
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