Biography
Jim Bell was an Anarchist who in 1995 wrote an essay titled, "Assassination Politics" which described a speculative future concept in which citizens could use the internet to crowdfund assassination bounties against corrupt government leaders.
Bell was prosecuted in federal court twice in connection with his anti-IRS organizing and his Assassination Politics writings. In 1997 he was convicted in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington of misdemeanor obstruction of IRS officials and a felony false-identification charge, and was sentenced to 11 months in federal prison; he was released in 1999. He was rearrested in November 2000 and was convicted in 2001 under 18 U.S.C. ss 2261A (interstate stalking) of two IRS revenue officers and a Treasury Department investigator. Sentenced to 10 years federal prison, he was released in April 2012 from FCI Phoenix (BOP register number 26906-086).
