On 30/06/13 22:43, Cody R Wilson wrote:
> Why complain about the california cease and desist if you begged
> for it?

It's great. If they banned exchanges, it would force the hand of where
Bitcoin needs to grow.

Underground.

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Page 60 of the official G8 magazine:

http://www.newsdeskmedia.com/files/G8-UK-2013.pdf

Governments around the world could take
two measures that would have a significant
and long-lasting effect on the ability of online
criminals to secure their ill-gotten gains:
1. Outlaw alternative payment mechanisms
for trading currencies online; and

...

alternative payment mechanisms, such
as Bitcoin and a host of others, can enable
criminal and terrorist groups to launder
money and fund their operations.
Governments of the world have the ability
right now to ban these payment mechanisms.
At the heart of this initiative is a simple
premise: at one end of the transaction,
a user must ?buy? the ?internet currency?,
and at the other end the criminals must
turn the currency into real money.
If treasuries and financial institutions
around the world were to block those
transactions and permit only legitimate
currencies to be used on the internet through
regulated payment service providers and
cards (such as Visa, MasterCard and American
Express), then the flow of many billions of
dollars to criminal groups would be stemmed.

...

The International Cyber Security
Protection Alliance stands ready to work
with governments interested in taking these
hugely cost-effective and sensible measures.

By Matt Thomlinson, General Manager: Trustworthy Computing Security (a
Microsoft company).

These were my friends:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2339503/Hundreds-riot-police-Londons-streets-officers-raid-squat-HQ-G8-protesters.html

The response by the police state is excessive. The reaction by the
police there was way above the norm.