X-Loop: openpgp.net From: Jim Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You have some weird definitions. Blackmail: asking someone to pay you in > > return of NOT divulging some information. > > That is a incomplete description. Blackmail is extortion. What you are > extorting is money so that the party being threatened is not harmed. The > fact that they are harmed by their own actions doesn't abosolve you from > the guilt of your actions. The difference between blackmail and extortion is that in the first, I'm asking payment for something I'm legally entitled to do. [Since our first emails about this, I have received some snail mail from Walter Block, containing a bunch of articles about this. Some of them are webbed, I think - you should look for them. You might learn something.] Back to what I was saying: if saying something I know isn't illegal, and asking money for a service isn't illegal, why is it illegal to ask money for the service of NOT saying something? > But not speaking is not what you're selling, the release from harm is what > you're selling. No. I'm no doctor. I'm selling my right to speak. > You're simplistic and incomplete reasoning not withstanding. It's "your", Jim. Mark
