************************************************************* OCEANIA ORACLE - ISSUE #6 - 11/15/94 ************************************************************* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to this mailing list, send the message subscribe oceania-l to listproc@butler226a.dorm.tulane.edu. To unsubscribe, send the message unsubscribe oceania-l to listproc@butler226a.dorm.tulane.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LIBERNET TERMINATION This is the last Oceania Oracle issue that will be posted to Libernet. If you are a Libernet subscriber and wish to continue to receive this newsletter, send the command subscribe oceania-l to listproc@butler226a.dorm.tulane.edu. OCEANIA VS KERGUELEN The Following was submitted by Sean Kane, original author being _tralala (SMTP.TRALALA) at SSWGATE: I heard about the Oceania project and found it quite interesting. I belong to a new Internet/Infobahn collective working on persuading the French government to let go of the island of Kerguelen in the southern part of the Indian Ocean. Kerguelen is approx. 150 kilometers from west to east and has a climate similar to Iceland. The island has a rich natural life, rare birds, whales etc. and some of the greatest fishing waters in the world. A huge colonial project for Kerguelen was undertaken in the mid 19th century but later put on hold due to the far distance from neighbouring countries. Now the island harbors a great meterological station, a fishing harbor and an annual French government budget of 117 million French francs. We think Kerguelen could make a great haven for a new liberatarian state. All we need to do is to set our plans properly in cyberspace and then invade the island. All EU citizens are entitled to live in Kerguelen freely and if enough of us do so we will be enabled to take over the isdland and set up our independent state and government. Maybe a little more realistic than Oceania. Or maybe we should do both ... Then Kerguelen and Oceania could set up a partnership in trade and politics between them. Alex "un citizen de la republique austral du Kerguelen" ANOTHER DONATION I would like to thank Hiroshi Haraguchi of Japan for his $50 donation in addition to his recent passport order. These donations are a big help in my quest to make Oceania real. CREDIT CARD PROCESSOR I am processing more credit card orders than expected based on the relatively small size of this project. Therefore I would be interested in a secondary credit card processor so that one person or company is not stuck processing all of our orders. Let me know if you can help with this. SEA STRUCTURES INC. CONTINUED As many of my long term readers are aware, I am interested in making Oceania real. One of the aspects that I have been devoting more time to is to help Sea Structures Inc. become a profitable company. For example, I recently found someone who was interested in manufuacturing/marketing of SeaCells for the west coast. What were his credentials you ask? He wrote: "After studying engineering at UBC I was employed at Neptune Dynamics Limited. Neptune makes custom manufacturing and processing equipment primarily for the canning and fish industries. While working there I was responsible for the manufacture, installation, and trouble-shooting of herring sexing machines in Europe, B.C. and Alaska. I also worked with can defect detecting machinery in China. This experience exposed me to a wide variety of manufacturing techniques (including plastic injection molding). Since Neptune is a small company I also gained experience in marketing, shipping, purchasing and all other aspects of business." --- I gave this person's contact information to Sea Structures Inc. yesterday. This is one of many behind the scenes things that I have been working on to get Oceania into reality. Talking about Sea Structures Inc., if you would be interested in helping finance nationwide ads for this company, you will receive part of the profits related to that ad. Send e-mail to oceania@terminus.intermind.net if this idea interests you. OCEANIA BUSINESS PLAN Earlier this year, while The Atlantis Project was still going strong, I began to look into the idea that the project really needed a business plan to go forward. It was eventually determined by a successful businessman who was the former CEO of a $100 million financial firm, that we should have a business plan based upon the idea of having investors invest in profitable marine construction businesses which could be used to build prototypes of Oceania and to test construction techniques that will be needed to create Oceania. (While still using the majority of their resources to continue their profitable business.) Even if Oceania failed, the investors would still have part of a profitable business. My employees hunted all over the U.S. and Canada, trying to find such a company without success. We called tens if not hundreds of business brokers, checking lead after lead. Nothing was found. Sea Structures Inc. recently turned up and I believe that it meets the needs of such a business plan. Its only problem is that the young company is not profitable yet. So my goal is to make this company profitable so the original business plan for creating Oceania that was developed almost a year ago can be put into place. This is why I am such a big supporter of Sea Structures Inc. USENET ADS To promote this listserver, I have been posting ads all over Usenet. If you would like to write ads for specific groups, feel free to do so and submit them. It is important that I don't run the same ad over and over again for the same group. I would like to thank Jim Davidson for the hard work that he has done in the past creating the vast majority of ads that I use today. .SIG ".sig" is short for signature and is the few lines at the end of a message which contain someone's name, e-mail address, and often a short quote. Send me e-mail if you would like your .sig to promote this listserver. This mailing list would have to at least quadruple in size before this project became viable. I even once offered to buy ad space in someone's .sig whose .sig said "Your ad here!" with no success. ANIMATION PROGRESS Following is a little story of how progress occurs at The Atlantis Project: I have wanted to provide Jim Albea with the cool radio ad that was produced for Oceania in the past. The problem was that the tape containing the ad was in my storage locker where the rent is overdue. Luckily, one of the dynamic libertarian women that I have met thanks to this list had a boss who wanted to see COMDEX. So he decided to stay at the "luxurious" Atlantis Project headquarters for a mere $250 for three nights. (Hotel prices skyrocket in Las Vegas during COMDEX.) This money will enable me to pay off the storage locker fees so the tape will go in the mail today to help Jim Albea work on the animation. The excess money will then be used to keep The Atlantis Project phone lines connected. Oh, please note that I am still looking for sources of oceanic sounds and pictures. SLOGAN It is time to replace our old slogan "Break The Chains". What do the readers think of the following slogans: "Peace and Prosperity", "The Ultimate Freeport", and "Aquatic Paradise"? And how about the following slogan for the Oceania Oracle: "New Nation News" or the longer "No Nonsense New Nation News"? THE ATLANTIS PAPERS This issue ends with an excerpt from _The Atlantis Papers_ by Jim Davidson, Eric Klien, Norm Doering and Lee Crocker "Surplus order is that excess order imposed not for the benefit of society, but exclusively for the benefit of those who control the state. Surplus order is the antithesis of beneficial or socially necessary order. The regime that imposes surplus order on its suffering citizens deprives itself of the Rousseauian justification for existence." -- Alvin and Heidi Toffler Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century The world has changed. Increasingly, the world is changing. Not only is change taking place all the time, it takes place at an accelerating pace. The rate of this acceleration is accelerating. Systems that once served millions of people have been torn down and radically realigned. Time is increasingly valuable, transaction speeds are increasing everywhere, and knowledge is the single most compelling form of power available. What took place in Eastern Europe starting about 1988 was a wave of transformation which eliminated totalitarian regimes. Violence played a part, but knowledge was the key. Information about the problems within their governments could no longer be kept from people equipped with faxes, modems, satellite dishes, radios, televisions, and telephones. In country after country, culminating in the Soviet Union in 1991, the level of control, what the Tofflers describe as "surplus order" was radically reduced. The mighty armies of the Warsaw Pact seemed powerless to stop changes wrought by a populace informed and infuriated. In most countries, these changes were relatively bloodless. Rumania required a few days of fighting in the streets. Hard-liners in the Soviet Union resisted for a short period. In China, the massacre of probably thousands of protesters actually delayed much change beyond the present day. But in nation after nation, governments fell, societies were transformed, and the realignment is still being felt today. In America, the Cold War ended with the collapse of every nation in the Warsaw Pact. But the surplus order imposed on Americans, frequently justified from the end of World War II as necessary to the defeat of communism, has not yet dwindled. In very many ways, surplus order has increased. What is this surplus order, why does it continue, and how can those who love liberty remove its damaging influence? That is the essential subject matter for this book. The examination of such issues led to the creation of the Atlantis Project. And it is the final analyses of that question which require the establishment of a new nation, a new haven of safety, and a new government truly founded on the principles of freedom. Many Americans wonder at the concept of surplus order in their country. "Are we not living in the land of the free?" Certainly, most of the history of America and many of its greatest episodes revolve around the fight for freedom. Unfortunately, much of that fight has been given up for fleeting concepts of security and order. In many ways, the accelerating pace of change has weakened American resolve to maintain freedom and encouraged many to seek shelter in the deceptively outstretched arms of their government. Yet who can deny the existence of surplus order in America? Turn on the television in the spring of 1993 and see an army surrounding a small enclave near Waco, Texas. Watch in wonder as the forces of the United States Government attack with dozens of troops, not once but twice. What fearsome enemy of the state inhabits this enclave, what terrible crimes justify this response? The possession of weapons by inhabitants of the Branch Davidian compound at Mount Carmel is clearly protected under the United States Constitution. That document, so remote from most Americans whose government-operated schools do little to educate on the principles of liberty, reads, in part, A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Certainly, events bore out their concern that their compound might be attacked by an armed force determined to disrupt their way of life. The practice of an unusual and somewhat unpopular religion by the inhabitants of Mount Carmel is also protected by the United States Constitution. Again, the US Constitution reads, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Upholding this Constitution was the sworn duty of every agent who participated in each attack. The ultimate justification for the second storming of Mount Carmel was the possibility that the children inside had been abused and might suffer mistreatment. Although the evidence for this charge had been investigated by Texass Child Protective Services and found to be baseless, the effort to eliminate this threat of harm was certainly disastrous. Every single child remaining in the compound was killed in the final conflagration. No matter who actually set that final fire, it is clear that the deaths of all those children would not have occurred without the second attack on the compound. Indeed, the Davidians had agreed to surrender within the next month. Why the hurry to impose a massive retaliation for the deaths of a few Federal agents who had participated in a poorly conceived, budget justifying, largely unplanned, entirely unnecessary, deliberately brutal and excessive raid against a group whose leaders had previously surrendered to law enforcement officials when faced with far more serious charges? As David Koresh had demonstrated in facing murder charges several years earlier, and as he and other Davidian leaders stated repeatedly during the standoff, the entire incident could have been avoided by an initial request for their surrender to authorities. Koreshs attorney has pointed out that the Davidians invited the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) to inspect their weapons months before the incident and that the ATFs warrant request had noted neighbors concerns about automatic gunfire but neglected to mention that those claims were investigated by local law enforcement and found to be untrue. So why the hurry? Why the intense atmosphere of confrontation and the overt use of force? Television. The story just kept showing up in newspapers and on television. What was the government doing? What were the Davidians doing? How could a few kooks keep all those government agents from doing anything? The need to impose massive, dominating, and finalizing order was the impetus for the second attack. It was entirely "for the benefit of those who control the state." The idea that anyone could challenge the power of the US Government, even for a short period, was intolerable to those who held that power. Such imposition of surplus order is not exceptional. It is not in the least unusual. The intense media focus on such events is unusual, and the story of the Waco massacre is certainly more familiar than most incidents. But it is only a very recent and very public example of activities that have been going on for years, increasingly prevalent violations of civil liberties. One important point to focus on is the alarming effect these activities by the state have on the wealth-generation system which is increasingly knowledge-driven and occurs entirely outside the state. The information revolution that made possible the dissolution of totalitarian regimes across Europe was created in the relatively open and free environment of Western nations. The increasing levels of control being imposed in those same Western nations today have nightmarish consequences for the engines of change, the new mechanisms for wealth creation. Imagine a nation in which property rights are easily forfeit, where anyone may be accused of a crime and the accused have few protections from arrogant prosecutors, where almost half of all moneys generated are taken by the state, where privacy is impossible to protect. Imagine a nation in which the elected representatives and appointed bureaucrats have enormous power, in which corruption is so rampant that the term politics has come to mean corrupt politics. Americans need use little imagination since they live in such a nation every day. Then imagine a nation in which elections are fraudulent, in which many candidates are excluded from the ballot by deliberate processes, in which major elections are tainted with deceptive practices. Many Americans do not realize the extent of election fraud in their country, others shrug it off as well-known but out of their power to prevent. One popular commentator, William F. Buckley, once amused his audience by relating that a friends uncle in south Texas who had died in the 1940s had been such a good Democrat, he had voted in two elections posthumously. American elections are controlled by extra-legal entities called political parties. The two major parties which exert such enormous control are not described in the US Constitution, nor are they substantially regulated by any laws. Access to the ballot is largely controlled by members of these parties, the division of each state into political districts is engineered by the party holding a majority in that states legislature, and Federal election funds are distributed preferentially to candidates of the two major parties. The personal experience of one of the founders of the Atlantis Project was significant in its creation. That experience is far from extraordinary. In an election in Clark County, Nevada, tens of thousands of absentee ballots were sent to a local union hall and returned in batches of one hundred. Dozens of other features of the election strongly pointed toward massive fraud. And the state legislature refused to consider the boxes of evidence brought to them on the grounds that they were "too tired" to consider the facts after a long legislative session. It is these two disturbing facts, that America is no longer free and that its election process is not fair, which have led to the creation of the Atlantis Project. It is the purpose of the Atlantis Project to create a new nation where freedom is protected not only by a superior Constitution, but also by the determination of the inhabitants not to allow the American experience to repeat itself. --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT INTO --------------------------------------------------------------------- FTP: butler226a.dorm.tulane.edu/pub/oceania LISTSERVER: listproc@butler226a.dorm.tulane.edu E-MAIL: oceania@terminus.intermind.net WWW: http://saturn.uaamath.alaska.edu/~kane/oceania_start.html WWW2: http://butler226a.dorm.tulane.edu/oceania BOOK: The Atlantis Papers from After Dark Publications/ 73370.3046@compuserve.com The Millennial Project from The Atlantis Project/ oceania@terminus.intermind.net SNAILMAIL: The Atlantis Project 4132 S. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 388 Las Vegas, NV 89103 ----------------------------------------------------------------------