JCT: I had high hopes for 2001. It seemed that there was a
general awakening around the world to the potential of interest-free
community currencies while at the same time there was a general
awakening to the medicinal value of marijuana and the genocidal impact
of prohibition of vegetable products, ie, alcohol, drugs, ???
It seemed like a convergence of opportunities.
After the coup of getting the UNILETS time-based currency on the
Millennium Declaration, if I could ever pull of a coup in ending
prohibition in Canada, as one of the drafters of the Millennium
Declaration, I would have been able to take the abolition of
prohibition to the same Millennium Assembly via an amendment to the
same Millennium Declaration. Right over the U.S. administration's
head to the U.N.

I have been swamped by so much work I've hardly had time to post
much of it. Another exemption rejection overturned. Other criminal
charges withdrawn. New charges filed against ME! The Dec. 8 2001 Le
Droit had an article that mentions I'll have to be in court on Feb 15
2002 to answer why I broke the publication ban on my
http://www.medpot.net web site. They forgot to mention which web site.
It says the Crown is also still considering whether to lay
charges for publishing during the ban against the much less
influential or prestigious local paper, the Ottawa Citizen. They're
going to let the little fish get away and go after the Great White
Shark, a reputation I got for savaging bankrolls as "The Professor" at
the Tah Mahal Poker Casino in Atlantic City. And I'm sure I'll be able
to offer a much more spirited defence than the lesser fish could.

There are too many things to comment on so I'll suggest a way to
find out what's happened in the past few months using the Google
Search Engine.

Go to http://www.google.com
You can also search Usenet groups there as a 2nd alternative.
Click the advanced search
For "exact phrase," enter: John Turmel
Click to change the number of pages from 10 to 100
Click Search.

My own publications dealing with LETS and marijuana come first
but take note of web pages with
1) my quote in the article about LETS in India's National Newspaper
2) a song by Stephanie Rearick that captured the spirit of my mission:

"The first verse is about John Turmel, a Canadian activist who
works to abolish interest on money as a means of achieving a more just
society (he also works on many other things, including legalizing
medical marijuana)... I had the honor of performing this at the first
of the courthouse lawn concert series."

JCT: A few verses and my favorite at the last:

They couldn't get you. You knew what to do
you looked all around and you found there was nothing to lose...

So you spend death-gamble days, blackjack at night
No one goes out without a fight

No more just sitting back while the bank robs the store...
No more just looking on while they lock up the poor...

and you crawled up silent through the mines
and you slew the giant from behind

JCT: There is no more symbolic setting for the slavery of money I
have opposed than that of the mines of yore where hosts of slaves
perished digging up jewellery for their money masters.
Except, I'm pulling the computer's plug to it's face (screen?) as
I switch to the upgraded software, not from behind.
Except I'm not that silent either. No one's ever called my
approach silent.
Quite the poem. I am honored.


--
John C. "The Banking Systems Engineer" Turmel, Author of the UNILETS
interest-free time-based currency United Nations C6 recommendation to
Governments in the http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration.htm
http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel / http://www.medpot.net 613.632.2334