Topic: You're all terrorists.... (Read 4357 times)

Nah! Actually, the US Government only cares about collecting taxes on capital and short term gains, preventing money laundering and stopping drug and illegal arms financing. If you are going to run a legit business, the US Government doesn't care.

Just pay your taxes, and quit visiting SR to get goodies.

A nation has the right to defend itself from both foreign and domestic enemies, if they are physical foes or ideological ones; But the point is mute when the world has already embraced
the BTC by allowing people to declare their earnings and to consider it money. The only terrorists I forse are those ideological ones that support a organizations enemies, North Korea vs South Korea, Western World Vs Iran, activists vs the establishment, environmentalists vs Big Business; Money can be very devisive when people are able to see how much support and backing ideas have that they do not support, especially when it can be catalogued on a giant public ledger, a global tally of world power.

I disagree with the quality of that post.  This "USA-centric" thinking is annoying.  The US is already a gulag state; pick any socio-economic measure that exists and the US won't be anywhere near the top of global rankings.  So what's so great about the USA again?  It's living off a legacy of past excellence while it unravels its past wisdom.  Not likely in the remotest, but yeah - they might water-board every bitcoin owner in the US and some outside, but really.  Believe me.  There is a world beyond Uncle Sam's borders which is getting bigger and better every day. 

Small and well publicised setbacks aside, the positive progress in the world gets no press time and is bigger than most suspect.  So don't believe your nightly news 'cause it's not representative of reality.  ;-)

LOL great post.

If any1 needz me,
I will be facing Mecca, praising Allah...

"You're all terrorists...."

your mom's a terrorist...



BOOM

Duck to the duck to the go my nizzle.  Been using it for years, no internet bubbles here baby!  Quack!

Because USA will invade your bitcoin island to bring democracy, peace and anal syphilis.

That goverment shouldn't even be taken serious.
Why not buy an island make it a country of bitcoin, and we all move there 

US govt is just a lame joke now ... "... land of the free, home of the brave."

... complete with widespread surveillance, press intimidation, IRS bully-boys, militarised police forces, detention without charge,
suspension of
 - presumption of innocence
 - trial by jury
 - secret courts
 - due process
 - speedy trials.

Unenforced financial crimes by powerful, two systems of justice ... we all know how this ends just that no one wants "to go there" yet.

Wait I think I saw a terrorist sneaking up that alley, didn't you see him too? I mean really you fell for that old line?

Happy not to live in evil empire USA. All they care is establishing total control over whole world and total slavery for it's own citizens. I'm happy that USSR dissolved but there must be someone who effectively counters USA both military and ideologically. I call for Greater Iran to be that opposition who keeps balance. Russians are evil too, China even worse, India too divided to be called single nation.

As for Bitcoins the day we all become labeled terrorists does not be a different day to me. Don't care. Probably I'm already labeled suspicious for running Tor node.

Duck Duck Go is a very good search engine, using it and a VPN should be concidered a must !

About PRISM, just dont tell me you were not suspecting such activities..

Thanks for that. I see DuckDuckGo uses a script, according to NoScript. Do you happen to know what that's about?

Edit: I'm looking at lavabit now also. Looks promising. You wouldn't believe how many "secure email" places I've used over the years, with terrible results such as the mad scramble to reroute mail when they went out of business. This one is clearly different. Open source - nice. This item in their "philosophy" page gives me pause though:  "Lavabit adamantly protects the privacy of its users. Lavabit will only release private information if legally compelled by the courts in accordance with the United States Constitution." I don't see how they can avoid that, and it's obviously much better than the "share everything by default" approach, but it still means that if the US authorities get overzealous (hard to believe, I know), then there is no privacy after all. Is this as good as it gets today - total privacy unless "the authorities" want your data? Ironically, it is a good thing such a rule was not in place when the Federalist Papers were published anonymously in 1787-8 or there might be no US Constitution. But I digress.       

I don't mean to look a gift horse in the mouth, and thanks again for the names. I'm just trying to do the due diligence thing. 

Oh GOD! I'm MELTING! I'M MEEEELTING!

got to say it,
I reject your reality and substitue my own

Hmm right... Anyways, that's irrelevant. It's still the one I want to consider.

The U.S government can outlaw all they like, it doesn't mean they can enforce it, filesharing for instance has technically been illegal for years now yet it's still going strong, I suspect Bitcoin is going to be the same, all of this is just simply working in the favour of cryptocurrencies.

Well, philosophically people have been search for this "real" reality for thousands of years. Haven't found it yet. 

Let's assume for a second here a government let's say the US would want to stop bitcoin.

What makes you think Bitcoin doesn't die a horrible death as soon as the heads and mouths of bitcoin get invited to a free vacation in Guantanamo for supporting terrorists? Think Ver, Versennes, Andresen, Karpeles, etc. etc. You think Bitcoin keeps going on when the movers and shakers are removed? "But but others will take their place!" Yes, they will. On the waterboard.