John Zube, 7 Oxley St., Berrima, NSW 2577, Australia 20 Sept. 89. Dear Conrad, I had wanted to write to you, ever since we met for an all too short discussion, in Sydney, however x other projects got in the way. The promised address of Dr. A. Temesvary is POB 10, Tootenham, NSW 2873. The promised PP 589/90 are enclosed and some other leaflets etc. Recommended reading : A Blueprint for a New Nation, The Structure of the Na-Griamel Federation, a comprehensive plan of government that may signal the return of te concept of individual rights te world over, by Robert J. Doorn, with a Foreword by Sir Harry Schultz, Exposition Press, Hicksville, N.Y., 1979, 97 pp. I got the permission for filming from the author but not from the publisher - one of the vanity presses. This is a follow up of Michael Oliver's book. Rather than quoting other such texts, I will send you copies of 2 letters to the Constitutional Commission. I filmed the Michael Oliver book, A New Constitution for a New Country, but cannot tell you at present in which PP number, since I failed to list it so far. Once I rediscovered the number but then managed to lose the slip on which I had noted it! Neither the tribal nor the coercively unified democratic union or federatin is THE solution. Those individuals who like either of these for themselves should be at liberty to retain or re-establish them for themselves, in whatever form they prefer. But all others should be free to opt for alternative institutional arrangements for themselves, free to sort themselves out, according to their own best knowledge or prevailing prejudices. Only thus could their frictions with others be reduced to a minimum. For Caledonia this would mean at least the following types of autonomous and exterritorial volunteer organizations : a) Kanaks only self-government organizations, b) French only self-government bodies, c) Chinese autonomous associations, d) Indian protective and independent communities, f) Japanese groups, g) any other particular national or ethnic or other minority groups, h) Associations of tolerant people of all or some of the above groups, j) Any number of special ideological or religious groups. For their interrelationships : international law and arbitration courts, consulting the best available individual rights codes, a militia for the protection of individual rights, with volunteer members from all groups. Transition via individual secessionism and associationism. That could be organized via an election that would amount merely to a tolerant new membership registration, i.e. one in which every party would win rule over its registered members and voters, to the extent that these would not individually secede. Such a programme has at least potential attractiveness for those who have no hope to gain or retain the majority of votes nor does it drive the diehards against a wall, from which they would offer a last and desperate all-out resistance. It would permit free experimentation and from it the best systems could spread fast, based on voluntary and individual acceptance. In other words, neither forced integration nor forced segregation but voluntary integration and also voluntary segregation, for all those who prefer them. I had scribbled some notes after our meeting, which I will here largely merely transcribe : INDEPENDENCE FOR A L L IN NEW CALEDONIA. Neither the French settlers nor the Kanaks nor any other group or a compulsorily thrown together ( "representatively" federated ) mixed group should be given the exclusive authority to rule over ALL New Caledonians. Instead, in the pursuit of true SELF-government, ALL New Caledonians should be freed to SORT THEMSELVES OUT, individually, into the groups they really do want to belong to, quite regardless of their place of residence or work in New Caledonia. And their chosen associations, all of them, should become as fully autonomous as their voluntary members want them to be. This can be achieved only an an exterritorial basis, that is, in the absence of any territorially imposed uniform constitution, federation, laws and jurisdiction. Each group would have its own principles and institutions of this kind. The historical and present day remaining personal law tradition should be applied accordingly. To each the constitution and laws of his choice. And each individual should remain free to secede from any of the new community associations, too. This requires exterritorial and diverse and competing but at the same time peacefully coexisting sovereignties instead of just one exclusive and territorial sovereignty. States and economic and social systems can exterritorially coexist, quite freely and peacefully, in the same way as different churches and sects have coexisted in this way for hundreds of years in many countries. All these groups are to be as exclusive or as mixed in their membersship as they want to be. By each group conceding this liberty to all of the others, perhaps by a special and formal treaty between them, each could have the governmental or no-government society of its dreams. These autonomous volunteer groups, exterritorially organized and functioning, would inevitably lead to an extensive experimentation on many sphers with many different systems and proposals. Some of these are bound to be unsuccessful and most of these would, thereupon, be discontinued soon, since it would be impossible to impose their costs upon dissenters. On the other hand, the successful ones would tend to find new members or imitators fast. In this way the all-over development, even that of a "sustainable economy", would be optimized, without coercion, without sacrificing the lives and liberties and different choices of dissenters and even without "foreign aid" ( in the meaning of tax-based government to government hand-outs). But e.g. on a stable currency basis and safe from nationalization and taxation, more private foreign capital could be gained for productive investments than could be gained by the most generous government to government grants. Caledonia could become a show-place for diverse and free development, for pulling oneself up "by one's bootstraps". Here monetary freedom and unilateral free trade, as practised by at least some of the new groupings, could play a major role. No collective decision-making by any group in N.C. for all others can possibly satisfy all minorities and dissenters better than this kind of systematic non-system or organized diversity or compromise on not compromising ( among volunteers ) could. Already in crafts, hobbies, fashions, philosophies, sports, religion, diets, home decoration, garden development, choice of jobs and in numerous other ways that are important to individuals, do they act autonomously and exterritorially and voluntarily, without giving the principles that are involved in their actions much thought. Their awareness of this ought to be raised and expanded to the so far still monopolized few remaining spheres, those of the supposed government prerogatives. Adults would have no difficulties, as a rule, to sort themselves out in this way. In case of doubt, they would simply continue as before, until they changed their minds. In this way N.C. might become a showplace and example for the whole world. Among a relatively small population such ideals are possibly easier to spread than among a large one. Among people who mostly are still close to tribalism, and not yet almot fully conditioned to think only along lines of territorial sovereignty, such ideas can prossible spread easier. Differences on ownership of land could likewise be settled by introducing competing land-tenure systems all on the basis of individual choice and free contracts. For this mutual guarantee, credit- and insurance arrangements, long term purchas and lease contracts on a stable currency basis, purchases on instalments, use of the own or agreed upon exchange media and clearing certificates or clearing accounts for such payments - lastly redeemed in the own goods and services, could be very important. Under freedom those using land productively would soon become its owners, in family groups, in cooperatives or other partnerships. I predict that Hertzka's productive "open" cooperatives would win out in a free competition with other land tenure and natural resource access systems. However, that remains to be seen. Voluntaryist Georgists and Proprietary Community people will also practise their schemes. On competing land tenure systems see PP 5. The abolition of territorial sovereignty would mean, in practice, free immigration and free trade. Development could become so fast and establish such a demand for affordable energy that your wave-power and temperature differential ocean power scheme could become very popular and fast sponsored. I rather hold that it would follow than that it could precede extensive development. While obviously there would be no more compulsory taxes to French authorities and compulsory membership, monopolistic jurisdiction, legislation and constitutional powers for them, one should stress that they could end all their subsidies and military and policing support efforts. Their settlers could remain autonomous and safe without them. They would gain unlimited free trade, free investment and free immigration and emigration options and the best principles of the French Revolution would be consistently applied - by all individuals, according to their individual preferences. The revolution would become continuous and gradual - because it would be individualized. One of its major maxims might be the article 27 of the 1793 constitution : "Que tout individu, qui usurperait la souverainete, soit a l'instant mis a mort par les hommes libres." The main point of your party platform ought to be : Our party strives for full exterritorial autonomy for all volunteer groups, under personal laws. No one is to be deprived of the system he or she prefers and is willing to finance. At the same time, now one is to be subjected to any sytem that he or she disagree with or forced to finance it. Then you might follow this with a scheme for which your seek voluntary subscribers - and no monopoly or privilege except that of full e territorial self-government. For the transition period, Jerome Internoscia's NEW CODE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, could serve as a guide. Each arbitration judge or jury could deviate from its guidance only if and when it publicly justified its deviations. Don't become just another "nation-builder" but, rather, a destroyer of coercive, monopolistic and territorial nationalism. With this aim you could win - all could win. Your CCC system could also be realized under these conditions, even if, initially, only a handful of supporters existed for it in N.C. But as a proposal for all it will encounter extensive opposition, at least at first and you might not be strong enough to overcome it. Your system can win - by giving all sytems their best chance. Your party could win - by giving all party members and voters their maximum chance for independent self-government. How large are public real assets of France in N.C., e.g. in land, forests, mines, harbour facilities, roads etc.? How much could be realized by their sale or title transfer per head of the N.C. population? Your party could also administer that scheme. See PP 19C. I look forward to getting a copy of your latest book for microfilming, bringing thus its total impressions initially from 150 to 250. PIOT, John. Enclosures : 589/90, 721, Walker Synopsis, Rebel Worker : N.C., Nettlau on Pan, A Libert. Info. Par., leaflet of Pacific News Bulletin.