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=v= I and others got some junk mail from Californians for
Population Stabilization.  It's not clear where they got my
name, since I don't give magazines or organizations permission
to sell this info.  (My friends and I suspect _E_magazine_ was
involved, based on the spellings of our names and addresses.)

=v= It follows the usual junk mail scare tactic of mentioning
CRIME! CRIME! CRIME! first of all (and just never you mind the
declining crime rate), followed by "population," "traffic jams,"
and "energy costs." (Apparently Enron and PG&E's greed had
nothing to do with our energy costs.  Who knew?)

=v= Here's how their "very different, very *positive* vision
of the future" starts off:

    Imagine whizzing to work on uncongested roads ...

You got it, you (the "Californian" reader, who of course doesn't
qualify as unwanted population) will be rewarded by living the
life of a Beach Boys song, and never mind the environmental
impact of that.  (They do go on to mention mass transit, but
that is of course just perfunctory, both in terms of the junk
mail's rhetoric and in the group's participation in transit
issues, which is generally limited to casting aspersions on
transit-oriented planning.)

=v= The rest of the junk mail follows the usual pattern of scare
tactics, taking credit for this and that, pointing fingers, and
begging for money.

=v= Here's the CAPper:  they announce something called project
Spotlight.  _Spotlight_, of course, was a virulently racist
right-wing magazine put out by Lyndon LaRouchies.  Can CAPs be
any more dense if they tried?
    <_Jym_>