ILI’s first municipal corporation is born
The bulldozers are rolling, and the activity is frenetic. A new city, and entirely new jurisdiction is under construction at this very moment!
Of course, this is not at all what is happening in my backyard, and actually it is quite a tranquil Sunday afternoon. Yet the metaphor I used previously is entirely realistic.
Article 3 of the Montevideo Convention is great in terms of state rights, but unfortunately it is a fact that all the land on the island of Long Island is controlled either by New York City or New York State. This leaves the Government of Independent Long Island (ILI), a junior or developing Fourth World nation, not only without an actual physical jurisdiction, but also without any financial support.
In order to begin to develop a physical jurisdiction, or something as close to one we can envision, we formed Independent Long Island’s first municipal corporation: Jamaica Square!
It was officially launched just minutes ago, at 6:40 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), on 26 April 2009, after being officially registered in the Micronational Professional Registry (MPR) as a ‘City’, and after writing this, it will also be registered with Corporations Independent Long Island (CILI), not as Independent Long Island’s first registered corporation (we have a few of those, even a Gibraltar-based one), but as its first municipal corporation ever!
We are still working feverishly as I speak, so please forgive us if the website is not quite perfect yet, because it, like the city of Jamaica Square, Independent Long Island itself, is still under construction, and I don’t just mean web construction. We are pretty quick with that! I mean living, populated, supported, web construction.
You can visit the new municipality’s website at:
In a few days we should also have the http://jmsq.ili domain up and running in the Cesidian Root, and it won’t be the first .ILI domain, but it will be the first completely native Cesidian Root domain (not a domain redirect).
New Brooklyn Mail service
Do you speak Brooklynese?
Bird = Boid
Bronx = Braunx
Coffee = Cawfee
Long = Laung
Oh My God = Oh My Gawd
Slippers = Slippiz
I’ll talk to you in an hour = I’ll tawk to you in an howa
King’s Plaza = King’s Plee-AZZ-a
With you = Witcha
I didn’t do it = I di-int do it
Staten Island = Stah-in-eyelind
What are you going to do about it? = Whadaya gunna do aboudit?
Well, maybe not! But that doesn’t mean you can’t move to Brooklyn, the capital of Independent Long Island!
As the Governor of Independent Long Island, I’m only happy to help you move into Brooklyn, at least vicariously!
I’m happy to announce a new service: Brooklyn Mail!
It’s the greatest thing since the Pony Express!!
With the Brooklyn Mail service you can establish a webmail address @ BklynMail.com
All services powered by Windows Live™, by the way!
So go ahead, and get yourself a nice webmail address at…
Regards,
HMRD Cesidio Tallini
America: land of the unfree, home of the knave!
According to Independent Long Island‘s Historian James Alcock (he is also our High Commissioner to Canada), when the British Parliament passed the Statute of Westminster in 1931, which elevated Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Ireland from colonies to autonomous dominions within the British Commonwealth (not fully independent because their people were still British Subjects), it also gave them the right to secede from the British Commonwealth. They could just declare their independence and leave! They all had the right, but none chose to exercise it at that time. In fact, they all willingly fought on Britain’s side during World War II.
In 1948, Burma seceded after becoming independent, and Ireland seceded in 1949, just before the creation of the Commonwealth of Nations. So the legal right already present in the Statute of Westminster of 1931, was exercised a bit later on. The London Declaration of 1949, which set up the Commonwealth of Nations, recognised the member countries as fully independent, so they had the right to leave the Commonwealth at any time because they were free and independent nations. They could even leave and return. South Africa, Fiji and Pakistan left and rejoined later.
It is interesting to note that the right to secede from the old British Empire was granted in 1931 to the autonomous parts, a full 18 years before the modern Commonwealth of Nations was created in order to accept a fully independent Indian Republic.
Since Texas Governor Rick Perry made some controversial remarks about secession on Tax Day, Americans have been asking themselves from whether secession is Anti-American, to whether it is illegal.
Perhaps secession is Anti-American, but it is certainly not Anti-British.
Perhaps secession is genuinely illegal in America, but it has been quite legal in the former British Empire since the British Parliament passed the Statute of Westminster in 1931, and in fact it was legal for British ‘dominions’ to secede, but it may not be legal for American ‘States’.
Put in another way, Thomas Jefferson was definitely a cool guy, but there is nothing cool about America. If Thomas Jefferson came back today, he would be ashamed of what his America has become!
It wasn’t always cool to be British, on the other hand, but it is definitely as cool as Thomas Jefferson since at least 1931.
In fact, it is the British Commonwealth which has lived up to the Jeffersonian ideals, while America got stuck with plutocrats, Alexander Hamilton’s central bank, and imperial overstretched government, from which secession is either illegal, or next to impossible.
America: land of the unfree, home of the knave!
In the beginning, the Kingdom of Pictland was a kingdom in exile, yet it was a powerful Fourth World nation nonetheless, with a history going back in time as far back as 3 March 1812, when the kingdom was proclaimed a Sovereign nation in exile in a Decretum Regius by His Majesty King George III, Hereditary High King of the Northern Picts.
When TTF-Bucksfan, a largely virtual Fifth World nation which is still thriving, was recognised by HM King Derile Pentland II in a Treaty of Recognition between the two kingdoms in January 2002, it was an unprecedented leap in a diplomatic sense, especially for the small TTF-Bucksfan. Since then, both kingdoms have come a long way.
TTF-Bucksfan lead to the now dissolved Fifth World Council organisation, which in turn lead to the powerful Cesidian Root (a bicontinental alternative Internet), to the Independent Long Island (ILI) and United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UMMOA) Fourth and Fifth World phenomena, as well as to an active university and other kinds of institutions.
The Kingdom of Pictland, on the other hand, is no longer a kingdom in exile since they have joined with their brothers, the sovereign tribe of the HeHL in southeast Alaska. The Pictish HeHL have declared HM Derile Pentland II as their king. The Kingdom of Pictland has re-established itself among its peoples as a Sovereign nation with territories once again. The kingdom is also a member of the Micronational Professional Registry (MPR), a premier serious unrecognised government organisation (SUGO), has its own working .PIC top-level domain (TLD) in the Cesidian Root, numbers some 1200-plus cultural creations (Pictish culture is quite complex and unique), and over 1,000,000 active citizens on several continents.
On 1 April 2009, the Kingdom of Pictland registered with Corporations Independent Long Island (CILI), and is now thus recognised by both the goverments of Independent Long Island and the United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago.
Independent Long Island is recognised by the following Fifth World nations: TTF-Bucksfan, the United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago, the Duchy of Bohemia, and the Imperium of DeWaCo Estates. Independent Long Island is now also recognised by a Fourth World nation, the Kingdom of Pictland.
If your nation wishes to recognise Independent Long Island (ILI), and this is especially desirable if it is a Fourth World nation, we invite you to register with Corporations Independent Long Island (CILI). CILI has so far registered several nations, and even incorporated the independent and Gibraltar-based Chartered Institute of Global Business Professionals.
Independent Long Island (ILI) has also received indirect recognition from an international organisation of states registered with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in New York, since its overseas territory, the United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UMMOA), was recognised by the International States Parliament for Safety and Peace (ISPSP).
The political ‘Third World’ exists no more
Historians tell us that with the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, and the fall of Leninist communism, the term Second World largely fell out of use, although the term Third World remains popular.
Nothing could be further from the truth as a political reality at least.
In the real world, the term First World has been largely replaced by the term New World Order. It is a world founded neither on democracy, nor on Judeo-Christian ethics. It is a world which is no longer founded on The Wealth of Nations, but the wealth of multinational banks and corporations.
The term Second World is no longer used, but it is quite alive in an economic sense with countries like China and South Africa, firmly anchored into the Second World according to their 2007 Human Development Index (HDI) data. The Second World is a world which is no longer founded on Marx’s socialist ethics, and the People’s socialist republic has been replaced by the People’s Liberation Army.
It is the term Third World — which used to refer to nations that were within neither the First World or Second World sphere of influence, non-aligned nations — the term that is no longer meaningful from a political perspective.
Today countries on the African continent are either aligned with the United States and the New World Order, or are aligned with China in a sort of alternative. There is no such thing as a non-aligned or Third World nation from a purely political perspective. The only non-aligned nations left are Fourth and Fifth World nations.
Zuma: Denying visa for Dalai Lama does not undermine human rights
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/27/content_11085826.htm
Practically the Whole Union Wants to Secede from the US!
Practically the Whole Union Wants to Secede from the US!
- New Hampshire HCR 0006 (affirming States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles)
- Oklahoma State Sovereignty Bill HJR 1029 [PDF]
- Arizona State Sovereignty Bill HCR 2024
- Washington 10th Amendment HJM 4009 [PDF]
- Montana HB 0246
- Michigan HCR 0004 (2009) [PDF]
- Missouri HR 212
- California SJR 44 (old bill: 1994)
- Georgia Senate SR 308 (old bill: 1996)
Hawaii Sen. Daniel Akaka on 2009-02-04 reintroduced a bill in the US Senate that could lead to establishment of a federally recognized Hawaiian government. A similar one is in the US House (Akaka Bill).
Possible additional interested states: Colorado, Pennsylvania, Montana, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Alaska, Kansas, Alabama, Nevada, Maine, and Illinois.
Articles:
Increasing Number of States Declaring Sovereignty
State Sovereignty Movement Quietly Growing
Is Secession Next? As 9 States Quietly Declare Their Independence
It will get worse:
Trend Alert: 46 Of 50 USA States Could File Bankruptcy In 2009-2010
Independent Long Island appoints second ambassador
The Governor of Independent Long Island (ILI) announced today the appointment of the Hon. Sen. Dr. Harikumar Pallathadka as Independent Long Island High Commissioner to India.
This is Independent Long Island’s second diplomatic post ever. In the Commonwealth, member nations do not have ambassadors to the countries of each other, but high commissioners. Since Independent Long Island plans to join the Commonwealth in the future, the Hon. Sen. Dr. Harikumar Pallathadka was appointed High Commissioner to India.
Independent Long Island and India enjoy a close and longstanding bilateral relationship. India enjoys de facto recognition from the Micronational Professional Registry (MPR) as MPR Member No. 000501, and is thus already recognised in a de facto manner by both Independent Long Island (ILI) and the United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UMMOA). The MPR also has an ongoing relationship with the Kale Family, of Indian ancestry, which runs the Zion Business Alliance Ltd., a Surrey, UK-based business & travel documentation consultancy firm.
The Hon. Sen. Dr. Harikumar Pallathadka lives in the State of Kerala, India, and is also a very young and successful Senator of the International States Parliament for Safety and Peace (ISPSP). Through him we hope to improve our visibility with numerous parliamentarians of India, as well as with the Honorable Government of India itself.
The Hon. Sen. Dr. Harikumar Pallathadka was also made Ambassador at Large to all Nations, and through his good will and hard work we hope to improve the standing of Independent Long Island (ILI) with other unrecognised and recognised countries around the world. The Honorable Senator may also help us to develop deeper relations with States that are members of the ISPSP and/or the Commonwealth of Nations.
With a start like this, the Year 2009 seems to bode well for Independent Long Island.
ILI native wins Nobel Prize for economics
On 13 October 2008, Paul Robin Krugman, a professor at Princeton University and Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, was named the 2008 recipient of the Nobel Prize for economics.
Born on 28 February 1953, Krugman is an economist, columnist, author, and intellectual. As an economist, Krugman has long been considered one of the brightest lights of the dismal science. The Nobel Prize committee recognised him for his “analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity”, something which helps explain why certain countries excel in international trade.
Krugman is perhaps best known as an ardent critic of the George W. Bush administration and its foreign and domestic policy. He is generally considered a political liberal or progressive.
Krugman was born into a Jewish family and grew up on Independent Long Island, a period of time he recalls with great fondness. As a child he developed a keen interest in science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov.
Krugman attended public school before receiving degrees from Yale (BA in 1973) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD in 1977). He taught at Yale and at the MIT before briefly joining the Council of Economic Advisors under Ronald Reagan in 1982. He is the author of 20 books and more than 200 academic papers. He is married to Robin Wells, a fellow professor at Princeton, and his second wife. The couple have no children.
Krugman has been at The New York Times — where he maintains a blog called The Conscience of a Liberal — since 1999, and at Princeton University since 2000.
Are you serious?
Thursday afternoon a bank robber walked into a Centereach, Independent Long Island bank located inside a supermarket, and handed the teller a note demanding cash and threatening to open fire if the teller didn’t comply (story link).
The bank teller had a simple question for the would-be robber: are you serious?
Apparently the sceptical teller’s question was enough to spook the female suspect, who fled the Roslyn Savings Bank without getting a dime.
I wish I could ask a similar question to Obama and McCain: are you serious? Are you serious in wanting to become the next President of a country which is in serious economic trouble, and to whose trouble you yourself have contributed? I just wish I could ask that question, but I’m afraid they have so much money backing them (real guns in a bipartisan plutocracy and make-believe democracy), that they wouldn’t just be spooked by the question, and leave the presidential post to someone more qualified, and less responsible for our current economic woes.
We, Bank Tellers of the country’s Public Trust, have a right to stop yet another bank robber of the country in the form of sectarian political-economic interests (parties), and backed with billions in public and private funds. We have a right to prevent yet another four-year armed robbery of the country’s goods, rights, and freedoms.
Yesterday, at the presidential debate organised by the self-defined “Commission on Presidential Debates”, I watched one elderly candidate emulate another one, of another era (Ronald Reagan), while a younger candidate emulated yet another candidate of another era still (John F. Kennedy). Both the candidates aped someone else, but what we really need now is someone who can think with his own head, not Reagan’s or Kennedy’s, not a man for a season, but a man for all seasons.
I don’t know about you, but I will not waste my vote on neither of these puppets of special interests, I will vote for an alternative canditate, even though I know he will probably not win, and I will see the existence of these candidates as licence for the further development of the office of the Governor of Independent Long Island.
Independent Long Island appoints first ambassador
The Governor of Independent Long Island (ILI) announced today the appointment of the Hon. James Alcock as Independent Long Island High Commissioner to Canada.
This is Independent Long Island’s first diplomatic post ever. In the Commonwealth, member nations do not have ambassadors to the countries of each other, but high commissioners. Since Independent Long Island plans to join the Commonwealth in the future, the Hon. James Alcock was appointed High Commissioner to Canada.
Independent Long Island and Canada enjoy a close and longstanding bilateral relationship. The Governor of Independent Long Island is the President of Planet Communications & Computing Facility (PCCF) Ltd, a Canadian federal corporation providing Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) numbers to its subscribers, and through this organisation he owns a class C /24 IPv4 network, which totals 256 nodes or IP numbers.
The Governor has also had a longstanding and positive relationship with another Canadian, Dr. Joe Baptista, PublicRoot Representative of the PublicRoot Consortium. Dr. Baptista in the past has recognised that the Governor legitimately purchased two TLDs from the INAIC, the .university and .amore TLDs, and that he also registered the .pic and .baron TLDs in the Cesidian Root in good faith. Dr. Baptista has also recognised the .ili and .bu TLDs, and has shown pleasure at the occupation of the .um TLD by the Cesidian Root when ICANN dropped it from its root zone file. Thus Dr. Baptista has granted Cesidian Root TLDs extraordinary legitimacy for alternative TLDs, and has also shown great support for the work of the Hon. Peter Dambier, Cesidian Root Officer and Lieutenant Governor of the United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UMMOA), Independent Long Island’s Overseas Territory.
It should also be mentioned that the Governor of Independent Long Island works as the Webmaster for a website owned by the Toronto Party Transportation Committee, and is an honorary Canadian citizen as well. The good vibes between Independent Long Island and Canada work in many ways, and we hope this relationship can grow, and even improve with the assistance of the Hon. Alcock’s work as High Commissioner to Canada.
The Hon. James Alcock, along with the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Independent Long Island (ILI), will be attending the Third North American Secessionist Convention to be held in Manchester, New Hampshire, on November 14-16, 2008. As our First Ambassador, the Hon. Alcock will function as ILI Ambassador-at-Large, but also work as ILI’s Consul to Middlebury Institute member organisations, with regard to the proposal of establishing an independent Atlantic federation of Canadian maritime provinces and northern New England states. Our Ambassador will work both on our behalf, and on behalf of Convention attendees, by providing useful advice and suggestions. We hope that this can lay the groundwork not just for a future independent Atlantic federation, but also bring new Canadian members into the Middlebury Institute.
The Hon. James Alcock also hopes to commence discussions with certain Middlebury Institute members about potential future Commonwealth of Nations membership(s), and plans to make a brief speech at the Convention about the Commonwealth of Nations, in order to both educate and eliminate misconceptions.
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