birth_place birth_date known_for article_title name occupation
akron , ohio 1958 formulating of the united states and its agents assassination politics , conflict with the federal government jim bell
 james dalton bell scientist , political dissident , engineer , inventor , essayist , author
jim bell

james dalton bell -lrb- born 1958 -rrb- is an american crypto-anarchist who created the idea of arranging for anonymously sponsored assassination payments via the internet , which he called `` assassination politics '' .
since the publication of the `` assassination politics '' essay , bell was targeted by the federal government of the united states .
he was imprisoned on felony charges of tax evasion in 1997 .
in 2001 , `` wired '' called bell of the internet 's most famous essayists '' and `` the world 's most notorious crypto-convict '' .
in april 1995 , bell authored the first part of a 10-part essay called `` assassination politics '' , which described an elaborate assassination market in which anonymous benefactors could securely order the killings of government officials or others who are violating citizens ' rights .
following an investigation by the internal revenue service -lrb- irs -rrb- , bell was arrested and subsequently jailed for 11 months on felony charges of harassment and using false social security numbers .
after his april 2000 release , bell publicly announced that he believed that there was extensive federal government corruption associated with his 1997 -- 2000 criminal case , and that he was going to research the facts and file a lawsuit .
bell filed this lawsuit in 2003 .
bell was put under heavy surveillance and rearrested for harassment and stalking of federal agents .
he was charged with intimidation and stalking and was convicted and again imprisoned , this time for a decade-long sentence .
bell protested vociferously against the conduct of the trial , going so far as to file civil lawsuits against two judges , at least two prosecutors , his former probation officers , and his defense attorneys , but ultimately to no avail .
he was released in december 2009 , only to be rearrested in july 2010 for violating his parole conditions .
bell 's parole violation hearing resulted in another sentence , and bell was released in 2012 .
james dalton bell was released from the sheridan prison facility -lrb- yamhill county , oregon -rrb- on march 12 , 2012 .
