Date: 08 Jun 2001 21:20:00 +0200 From: ASWAD-AT-anarch.free.de (catkawin) Subject: Re: [CP-List] Decentralized opposition Hooten hollared: > Hmmm. I have long been an advocate of using not-for-profits to turn a > profit to fund anti-state lifestyles and activities. > > Getting caught like this though, gives us all a bad name. Ahem. Apart from not spending all the money coming in appropriately, SS-I are still asking for more and more donations - a look at their website will tell you they also don't quite expect small donations. Watson also keeps telling people SS-I was only working with volunteers and had no paid staff. Quite in contradiction to these claims, Lisa Distefano (ex-Mrs Watson until recently, remember) did receive a salary from SS-I. When confronted with this minor contradiction, he could not offer a reasonable explanation, but we won't bother about small inconsistencies like this one, will we. Watson also says he works for University of California as a lecturer (he is not quite qualified to do so, but to make up for this he has a good buddy there, Dr Zuckerman, who sees to it that Watson can go on and was rewarded with an appointment to SS Board of Advisors in return) and boasts an income of 16,000 in American currency - per year, that is. Apparently this amount will hardly cover his annual expense on alcohol, so one does wonder how he keeps himself fed, clothed, and housed. Oh yes, Ms Distefano had a nice salary... One also wonders how Watson pays for all his traveling about on a mere 16,000. Perhaps one might assume that SS-I pay his travels as well as living expenses during actions (please take due note that volunteers on SS vessels are expected to bring their own money to feed them!), but then again he would have to declare these amounts as an income.... So if you want to finance Watson's next drinking sprees, make donations to SS-I. If you want to finance Watson a free cruise like last year to the Faroe Islands when he managed to be out of the way everytime he should have been on the spot, send a check to SS-I. You will also certainly not mind that Watson declared himself the captain of the brave activities while sending the vessel through the Panama Canal and over to Europe while he himself had more important things to do and only joined the crew in Amsterdam. But that's probably only keeping up tradition: who has ever heard of generals joining the fight instead of keeping well behind in safety? catkawin ## CrossPoint v3.12d ##
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