If a $1 Trillion coin is minted, and if I stole it, I would be the most powerful man in the world

I just realized that you're not who I thought you were. Forgive my mistake but I thought that you were this user (http://www.debate.org...) which is why I thanked you for being involved in DDO and getting up to snuff on community standards before starting your first debate. Anyway it doesn't matter as you've still posed an excellent argument which I hope will be a fun debate. That said my refutation of your arguments of power would be very simple; that being even under the six assumptions provided by the pro in round one, the coin would be useless to him as a leverage of power. This is true as it was never established where Con would go with the coin once stolen; he even says for us 'to let your imaginations run wild'. However for argument's sake he establishes he would go to either Siberia or China; both of those countries would rat him out the the US authorities. If we where to go to Russia, then the US would be able to find him once he liquidated the coin; a trillion dollars USD is a lot of money, and it's transfer of funds isn't going to go unnoticed. Here's where my first premise comes into play, once Pro has liquidated the cash from the coin, the government of either Russia or or the United States would freeze his bank account and the money would be useless to him[1]. He wouldn't be able to be able to get the money in all cash, as it would still be suspicious and he would get caught before he had the ability to put the money to use; with this in mind, we can effectively assume that Russia is not an option. [1] http://www.ehow.com... Also there's the fact that Vladimir Putin is the third most powerful man in the world[2], and he knows that such a massive betrayal of the United States (the betrayal being honoring the trillion dollar liquidation) would not bode well for him or his country so again, either way the money in going to be frozen in Russia [2] http://www.forbes.com... As for China an even bigger problem exists in going there; the United States owes China the most money out of all of the US's debt[3]. So here's where my second premise comes into play, as I said before the coin's value would not be intrinsic to the coin, but would be representative of wealth elsewhere. This wealth however wouldn't be money in the U.S. federal reserve as the U.S. doesn't have the money there to back that coin up; it would have to come from the money borrowed from China. So, anyone in china who actually had the money to honor a trillion dollar liquidation wouldn't allow Pro to access the funds once the coin has been liquidated. [3] http://usgovinfo.about.com... Now at this point I direct you attention to my opponent arguments as of the prior round; by this logic the first two prongs of Pro's justification would be accepted; however as he cannot actually access the money he's stolen the , fourth, fifth and sixth prongs would never happen. He couldn't hire any PMCs for his protection, or establish a counter intelligence network to the CIA; he couldn't launder money; and he couldn't subtly take over the world Giovanni style[4] [4] http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net... Finally in order to cover all of my basis here, it must be mentioned that having that just having the money wouldn't give my opponent any type of power; much less justify him as the most powerful man in the world. Furthermore as my opponent alludes that there is a chance of him getting caught, he is not the most powerful man in the world as there exists an agent who could realistically overthrow him. This has been a fun argument to craft, and I look forward to seeing what Pro will do with it. Back at ya!