[45571] in Cypherpunks
Re: Political Cleanup program
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Davis)
Mon Dec 18 11:19:34 1995
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 10:35:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Davis <bdavis@thepoint.net>
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Cc: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199512180430.UAA02707@blob.best.net>
On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, James A. Donald wrote:
> At 11:04 AM 12/17/95 -0800, jim bell wrote:
> > It occurs to me that it would be a major advance if a system could be set up
> > that would "blind" campaign donations as to their source: The donor could
> > be satisfied that his donation gets to the candidate or cause, but the
> > candidate couldn't know who actually paid the money
>
See my earlier post.
> To make this work, the government would need to prohibit individuals
> from campaigning for politicians, taking out ads with political
> consequences, and so on and so forth. A short step from
> totalitarianism
Not to mention the death of the First Amendment. Which, under your
scenario, would probably mean the death (or curtailment) of Cypherpunks.
> A better solution is to move assets and money into forms where
> politicians cannot get at them, thus reducing the power of politicians,
> and thus the incentive to buy favors from them.
I'm not sure what you mean here: are politicians to be prohibited from
campaigning (which cost money)? And if politicians, who generally take
the form of human beings, can't get at $$$, how can you or I?
> of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald
> arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com
>
>
EBD
