Path: netnews.worldnet.att.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!cph-1.news.DK.net!dkuug!dknet!funny.bahnhof.se!seunet!news2.swip.net!mn6.swip.net!mn5.swip.net!news From: Zenon Panoussis Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: Surprise Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 04:05:04 +0100 Organization: - Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3272D160.5CD@dodo.pp.se> References: <3270AFE9.252A@dodo.pp.se> <54tv4b$573@cyber3.servtech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup109-6-1.swipnet.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-User: s-40153 X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 [nl] (Win16; I) To: "Curtis R. Anderson" > (The thought of asking for NOTs via the Swedish consulate's office in > Jamestown, New York is becoming more tempting ... Now this was a bright idea that never occured to me. It is the precise duty of a consulate to be an itermediary between the authorities of the mother country and the citizens of the hosting country. Yes, do that. Walk into the consulate and order (in writing) one copy of the Swedish parliament's document with protocol number KK4-87-96/97. Don't let yourself be discouraged or advised to order directly; Swedish law applies to Swedish consulates, and that law says that if you place a request with the wrong authority, that authority has to forward it to the right one. This is a way to prevent any possible objections of the CoS as to the legality of Swedish copies in the US. The CoS could claim that copies imported from Sweden are illegal (as Jon N argues), but they would be calling for a diplomatic incident if they claimed that copies released by a Swedish autority *in* the US are illegal. In such a situation I think that the US authorities would discreetly but efficiently tell the CoS to shut up. Contact me by e-mail for advise on the details of how to go about your request. Z --- oracle@everywhere: The ephemeral source of the eternal truth...