File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2001/anarchy-list.0106, message 73


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





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