In full shock of the terrorist attacks committed by ISIS in Paris, the Ministers of Justice of the European Union have rushed to claim the strengthening controlsmethods of non - bank payment such as "virtual coins and prepaid cards" to stop funding organizations like ISIS.
Since Bitcoin is by far the ( "virtual" as the masters of the fiat system) best known and most used, any sensible person that preventing terrorist acts begin by asking deems desirable decentralized electronic currency: does it make sense to use Bitcoin to finance terrorist acts? Before answering, let 's see what other questions that governments supposedly committed to the fight against terrorism are doing:
How much money does it take to go outside to shoot people? If a terrorist purchase a train ticket, how do we know that your purchase is different from anyone else? If passports are used to identify terrorists, why terrorists are not arrested before? If terrorists use false identities, what sense does it record the identity of every honest person every time you make a purchase?
Oil, kidnappings, taxes, the traditional banking system and cash as well serve the purpose of ISIS as those of any other terrorist organization . Bitcoin would be a totally unnecessary link-indeed, it would be counterproductive in its supply chain. The disturbing reality is that occasional attacks require no more than fanaticism, determination, coordination in broad daylight and fiat money. As for the support and expansion of ISIS, any (governmental or nongovernmental) organization sympathetic to the cause of the new Caliphate will change thousands of millions of dollars into bitcoins to finance ISIS, since the bitcoin is too trackable and lacks necessary for them to be useful liquidity.
But there is more uncomfortable questions that no politician, at least publicly, is being made: if terrorists ignore the ban on carrying weapons, what sense does it impose laws that disarm the rest of the population? If terrorists use dollars, oil, precious metals, mobile phones, Twitter, cars, etc. etc., will there be to forbid all that too - that is, leave it solely in the hands of criminals, like those firearms in Paris almost anyone can legally use way?
According to this "logic", the more useful is a tool, there are more reasons to ban 'Well it could be used in criminal-purposes. In practice, we know that measures based on faith in the supernatural power of the state unnecessarily complicate our lives in the best of cases, and in the worst case we are forced to deliver these valuable tools precisely those who are willing to use them against us.
Regardless of what we do to counteract the eruptions of mass hysteria, we will hear lies about the usefulness of Bitcoin for terrorists; because any proposal for a fool it, makes it look to politicians in power as men of action before the masses of ignorant peoplewho vote , and because the masters of fiat money desperately need an excuse to block all exits before enacting controls capital and financial bailouts at the expense of depositors.
Now, many are asking genuinely curious what a government could do if you were actually in their plans to end terrorism. If there are readers who know elBitcoin.org François Hollande, please let them know that here we have the answer:
• Stop selling arms to totalitarian governments.
• Leave to intervene in distant conflicts that do not contribute to the defense of the population in the territory they govern.
• Allow porte people and use firearms in self - defense (not coincidentally the terrorists choose "gun - free" zones to open fire on innocent people).
• Eliminate the " welfare state ". In other words, stop forcibly take money from the productive population to subsidize unproductive. This is the seed of resentment, marginalization and isolation of a growing segment of the population, while the state has the gift, no need to face the dilemma of integrating or migrating.
In short, to solve this problem the government does not have to do anything but stop doing: stop adding fuel to the fire in distant and foreign conflicts; stop promoting the forced association of incompatible cultures; stop imposing disarming law abiding citizens .