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>sscott@vcn.bc.ca (Sheldon Scott) wrote:

>>Daniel J. Lavigne (taxfree@planeteer.com) wrote:
 
>>"Think global act local" and all those other cute slogans prodding us
>>away from immediate self-interest and pointing to our long term
>>survival as sentients 

>Ah, yes, the enviro-loons think they are going to save the world.  Sort of
>a "superman" complex; or is it just a way to meet girls?

>> for that I thank all individuals and groups who have maintained their
>>drive and focus in spite of a spreading insanity of greed that has the
>>majority choosing shiny paint before life's basic needs.

>Oh, yes, tell us what we should really be doing, O "driven and focussed"
>individuals.  But, when you talk of insanity, check out your own back
>yard, before you start telling me how to treat mine...

taxfree@planeteer.com , in response to whirlpool@mountain.brook.com, 
previously posted 
the following and repeats the offering with one small 
addition for the benefit of   sscott@vcn.bc.ca 
(Sheldon Scott) :

	�Progress� has given us nuclear power  . . .  and 
weapons; digitalis  . . .  and dioxin. �Intelligent 
Life� has developed into differing cultures and 
cultural appreciation (or, are we lying to ourselves 
about that also?) and the manufacture of hundreds of 
thousands of weapons of mass murder  . . .   and the 
will and the capacity to use (or cause the use of) 
such weapons.

PISSING ON PRIDE

Political pawns, promoting profits;
Possess no principles, and piss on their pride
When plucking poverty�s poor.
D.J.L. "Meanderings�  Spring/85

Our struggle to stand erect took unknown eons. Our 
trek to a higher plane could take as long . . . if 
we survive the ever mounting insanity.

The law of simple chance states that we will not 
so survive. Human garbage, compelled by the madness 
of greed and allowed to act in such a fashion by 
the cowardice of the majority, will initiate or 
otherwise cause the use of circular siphons or 
other weapons of mass murder. Sarin type nerve 
gases and a whole horde of newly developed means 
by which individuals can murder millions . . . will 
be employed as society sinks further into its sewer 
of greed. Our only guarantee of salvation will be the development of a
societal concern sufficient to spot 
the development of personalitys capable of using such
 weapons and acting to stop or otherwise dissuade them.

Those who practised daily thought prior to the 80�s 
recognised that human activity had caused a perceptible planetary
increase in mean temperatures. From the soft 
warnings of a few, there grew an acknowledgement that 
the problem had to be addressed.

Doubt is no longer part of the equation. Advanced 
computer modelling has presented us with facts that 
cannot be ignored. Facts that are agreed upon by all 
scientists charged with identifying the ever growing 
threat to our continued existence. Facts that have 
been presented to the populace at large in a fashion 
so as to deflect the possibility of angry reactions.

The act of acknowledging the onset and the severity 
of the �Greenhouse Effect� is necessarily limited to 
those able to set aside their personal interests in 
the continuation of the status quo. That, in my view, 
limits such an action to those possessing a higher 
order of intelligence than that demonstrated by our 
captains of commerce and political (and popular) 
hypocrisy  . . .  and those who follow their dictates.

My success at court,  regarding the legal right to 
refuse to file tax returns or to pay taxes to or 
otherwise support any society so lost and cowardly 
as to participate in plans and preparations involving 
the will and the capacity to murder millions, was the 
planned outcome of a decision taken years past when I 
predicted the conditions of political, societal and 
physical life to-day.

I thank  whirlpool@mountain.brook.com for writing his/her concerns; but
I stand by my use of the phrase �Intelligent citizens acknowledge the
onset and the severity . .� and  confirm my unwavering belief that we
must begin to speak 
openly about necessary actions to address and reverse the threat  greed
poses to our very existence.

Without that intelligence, without that commitment, we 
will continue to manufacture some 25-30,000 vehicles and 
other automotive devices per day. 

We will continue to ignore the excessive use of energy 
and limited natural resources. 

We will continue to ignore the ever increasing use of 
carbon based fuels and the unrelenting release of poisons 
into our air, soil and water. 

We will continue to accept the above described plans 
and preparations, and the training of millions in the 
use of such weaponry, as necessary to protect �Our Way 
Of Life� (some life). 

We will continue to ignore reports such as that 
prepared on behalf of insurance companies regarding 
a severe increase in weather related claims and the 
necessity of higher premiums. 

We will continue to ignore chemical and nuclear disasters. 

We will continue to ignore laws severely limiting 
the liability of nuclear plant operators in lawsuits 
following those disasters.

We will grow increasingly blind to the decay of our 
ability to discern between good and evil.

And, added this 17/12/96; intellectual cowards will 
continue to ignore their increasing numbers; and such 
as sscott@vcn.bc.ca (Sheldon Scott) will continue 
to present others with their weeping whine . . .

And then?  

Daniel J. Lavigne
Founder, Co-ordinator
International Humanity House
-- 
The pre-court letters to individuals and politicians 
worldwide, the statement of claim and the speech to 
the court that presaged Decision T2020-88 
are included when you order the book:

Mankind /// Mancruel
A Choice /// A Duty
Copyright. 1995/1996
Daniel J. Lavigne

Cost, including delivery, US$30.00
To order, email your postal address to:
taxfree@planeteer.com

LIFE�S DUSTY PASSING

Prophetic. Ghost grey,
Industrial pall. Suspended,
Screening our greed, Hiding our gall.
Deflecting our view of a dust laden extinction.
Answering our follies, our demands of MORE!!

Copyright. D.J.L. "Meanderings"  Spring/85