>Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 16:44:19 -0400 (EDT) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: BOUNCE [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Non-member submission from [Robert Connelly ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > >>From iciiu.org!msondow Thu May 27 16:44:18 1999 >Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Received: from smtp1-alterdial.uu.net(alterdial.UU.NET[192.48.96.22]) (6522 bytes) by >ns1.vrx.net > via sendmail with P:smtp/D:aliases/T:pipe > (sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 27 May 1999 16:44:16 -0400 (EDT) > (Smail-3.2.0.100 1997-Dec-8 #2 built 1997-Dec-18) >Received: from iciiu.org by smtp1-alterdial.uu.net with ESMTP > (peer crosschecked as: msn-158.au3.b.uunet.de [149.229.254.158]) > id QQgrbe17255; > Thu, 27 May 1999 20:39:10 GMT >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 05:37:25 +0900 >From: Robert Connelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en]C-DIAL (Win95; U) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Report From the Front >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Berlin. May 27. A multilateral cease-fire agreement for the purpose of >collecting the dead and wounded permits your correspondent to offer the >following report from the war zone. > Communications here on the eastern front are in a lamentable state. >Small barracks and other temporary bivouacs, although supposed to be >equipped with Internet connectivity, are unable to enter POP3 addresses >other than the default, while the telephone systems of the larger hotels >where officers are billeted, supposed to provide last resort long >distance dial-up, beep in a manner unrecognizable by laptop modems, the >cumulative effect of all of which is, in general, no Internet access. > This situation is not the least of the surprises that greeted your >correspondent upon disembarking in Deutschland. Surface mouvement via an >otherwise adequate if antiquated system of roads and tramways is greatly >hindered by what appear to be organized assemblies of the gentry for >strange ends. Skaters numbering in the hundreds if not thousands, >wearing fluorescent garments and sporting green and purple and red >hairdos, the sun glinting from nose and eyelid rings, blocked the >thoroughfare at the edge of our camp during our first improvised supper >in this strange land. We had been forewarned of such peculiar customs; >what we were not prepared for were the hordes of bicycles upon the >sidewalks that make any serious advance through the city all but >impossible. > The day and evening of May 25th were occupied entirely by >pourparlers between representatives of the RFI (Revolutionary Forces of >the Internet) and officers of the dictatorship, in separate small >negotiating units designated "constituencies" by the enemy. These talks >were largely unsuccessful, as they were no doubt intended to be, >primarily due to constant harrassment by mobile shock troops of the >reactionary secret society of kulaks known as CORE, whose business was >evidently to obstruct the proceedings. > Your correspondent participated in the talks of the "non-commercial >domain name holders" constituency, a baroque gathering of foes loosely >held together by the presence of Colonel Dyson, dispatched hastily to >the NCDNHC by the dictatorship's general staff for the purpose of >assuring that the CORE kulaks were not ejected forcibly from the >meeting. Let it be noted here that comrade Mueller speaking on behalf of >the ACM made a valiant effort at compromise, and if he failed it was >only due to the enemy's duplicity and perfidy. > The ICIIU, originally supposed to lead the constituency talks, was >forced into the back seat by the refusal of a number of those present, >including Colonel Dyson herself, to recognize its authority, this being >obviously a thinly-veiled defense against the ICIIU's threats of >invoking international law and its demands for the convening of a war >crimes tribunal to punish those profiting from the present hostilities. > The only achievement of the negotiations so far has been the >beginning of a return to civil society and order, in the form of a >hesitant DNSO, still unsure of itself yet hoping to be granted some >measure of authority for the reconstruction of the social fabric by the >dictatorship's High Command. A first meeting of the nascent DNSO without >survelliance by the police state was allowed to take place this >afternoon, and a second is hoped for in late August, if the dictatorship >will allow it. > Unwelcome surprises for the RFI came from an unexpected quarter: the >GAC. First, the delegate from Turcs and Caicos Islands (.TU) was denied >admission to the GAC conference on the grounds that the islands are a >former colony of Great Britain. Your correspondent expressed the opinion >in the GAC open meeting (actually a report by the sole Paul Twomey) that >two world wars had been fought and the United Nations created in order >to stop that sort of colonialism, but this was ignored. We were also >informed that the GAC has recommended that the WIPO recommendations >(lots of recommendations, just recommendations) be accepted forthwith by >the dictatorship, protestations of no due process by the DNSO >notwithstanding. As a final ignominy, the GAC has told the High Command >that ccTLDs may be removed from their present administrators "by >request" and for ambiguous reasons, thus opening the way for an >extension of the dictatorship's iron grip beyond the territory (gtLDs) >already conquered. No indication of the provenance of the "request" for >such actions was given. Your correspndent suggests that it could be the >GAC itself. > The dictatorship High Command remains in closed session all day >today. Their sole communique has been an edict regarding the >constituencies to the effect that six of them are recognized and may >choose Names Council members (despite Colonel Dyson's assurances to the >contrary only two weeks ago), whereas the formation of the >non-commercial constituency has been postponed indefinitely, thus >denying it the chance to participate in the first meeting of the NC, >underway as these lines are being written. Unable to give the NCDNHC to >CORE and its cover ISOC due to the timely intervention of the ICIIU and >ACM, the dictatorship has retaliated by refusing to recognize it at all, >no doubt until such time as the High Command can devise a new plan for >bringing the rebel NCDNHC into submission. > A High Command press conference has been announced for 8 A.M. >tomorrow, May 28th, at which time the dictatorship will make known the >orders to be carried out between now and the August negotiations in >Santiago. The RFI awaits these commands with trepidation, yet with an >unflagging spirit and a keen sense of its mission and the need for >continuing self-sacrifice in the cause of liberty. > >Michael Sondow, reporting from the front. > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember, amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
