Re: [ga-watchdog] Re: Your request for Voting Registry

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 08:37:54AM +0200, Roberto Gaetano wrote:
> I agree with Alexander.
> There is a bunch of self-proclaimed "independent countries", Sealand is one
> of them, but there is also the "Principato di Seborga" (somewhere in NW
> Italy close to the French border), another one, whose name now escapes me,
> is in Australia in the middle of nowhere.
> I agree with the decision of the Secretariat to stick to the official list
> of the UN Statistic Division.

I also agree.  To paraphrase a famous saying, we shouldn't be in the 
business of deciding what a country is.  Maybe Sealand will become a 
recognized country someday, but that's a battle they have to fight, not 
us. 

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Kent Crispin                               "Be good, and you will be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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