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The government is not your friend
Yesterday’s guilt verdict for the Roman storm on the count of conspiracy to manage a service service without license is absolutely crazy.
Fincen, the regulator responsible for the license actions, monitoring and application relating to criminal activity in the transmission of money AndXplicitly said that the self -aware tools that facilitate the transmission of the value using cryptocurrencies are not transmitters of money and are not subject to relevant regulations.
So how did we get here? Eight months after the election of a president who describes himself as a Bitcoin and cryptocurrency lawyer, after the same Department of Justice has explicitly declared that they will not work in the regulation for judicial proceedings or will they pursue the mixing services, how has Roman Storm has been declared guilty?
There is nothing that describes this situation except pure and unbridled madness. Inconsistency. Hypocrisy and contradiction. There is a lesson here, however, that I think it is time for more people to learn in this space.
The word of the government is useless. It doesn’t mean anything.
They will continue to repress privacy, they will continue to push Kyca surveillance through things like the genius act and through the backdoor, applying them only to Stablecoin (for now). They will continue to take care of the desire for privacy as proof of criminal intent. They will do all these things while talking on the other side of the mouth to support bitcoiners and the “importance of self -custody”.
This is what the government does. This is what politicians do. Is inherent in their very nature.
We have to stop treating these people like our friends. We must stop pretending and lying to ourselves that can be conquered and become powerful allies to push the values and tools we want to see in the world. They are not our friends. They will not become allies, sharing a common cause with us. They are our enemies.
It’s time to stop pretending. These people must be treated as hostile and treated as such.
We have to stop asking them for clauses and cyclists in bills. We have to take them to court. We have to stop kissing their ass and pandering to their ego and notion of public person. We have to call them as two-faced spin-spin-free people.
If there is any legitimacy for the legal basis of the United States government, we do not need new laws, we do not need the permission of these people: we have the Constitution. Remember in court.
If, at the end of all this, this system is so corrupt and hypocritical as to functionally ignore the constitutional rights of Americans (and non -American), then we must ignore them. Civil disobedience is the last mechanism that we must consider the government responsible for the fundamental constraints that are built short of violence. It’s time to use it.
Free human beings do not ask for their freedom; They take it. In a digital era that tightens more and closer to Orwellian totalitarianism, this is the only way you will never reach it.
This post The government is not your friend for the first time he appeared in Bitcoin magazine and is written by Shinobi.