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Re: LEARN ABOUT GREENPEACE, read the facts!

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From: Rich Puchalsky
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 1994 01:49
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In article <1994Feb03.103017.714@hakatac.almanac.bc.ca> rthomas@hakatac.almanac.bc.ca (Robert N Thomas) writes:
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>Nov. 15 (21st Century) -- Leaders of Greenpeace have shifted tens of millions
>of dollars from contributors into private bank accounts, according to a shocking
This is quite humorous.  It is actually Lyndon LaRouche, whose associates
(21st century) wrote this, who was jailed for improperly taking extra
money from contributers by using their credit card numbers.

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>		- Bribing the International Whaling Commision -

Here was the truly silly part of this poorly written propaganda...
>
>
>   While the officials were traveling, according to Palacio, friends of David
>McTaggart gave themselves the mandate to sit in for the representatives of 
>those nations taking advantage of the all-expenses-paid trips.  As a result,
>representatives of Greenpeace were able to vote at the whaling Commission
>meetings on behalf of several nations.  These Greenpeace activists were not
>citizens of those nations they represented, and in some cases the governments
>of these nations did not have any idea that they were represented at the
>whaling Commission.

This had me chuckling for a good while.  You mean that I could just
walk in to a whaling commision meeting and vote if I knew that a 
representative, say, was at home with the flu?  Sounds like fun!
Maybe I should just hang around outside, then duck in and vote whenever
I see somebody go to the bathroom :-)
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From: rich@astro.umd.edu (Rich Puchalsky)
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Subject: Re: LEARN ABOUT GREENPEACE, read the facts!
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