The Aldebaran Treaty 

(A landmark is made)

 

May 4, 2008

by John Gray

 

During the last few days covering the 1st to the 3rd May a group of people gathered for a Summit meeting on board 

the Aldebaran, an old sailing ship docked at the small port of Hoorn, in Holland.  (Hoorn is fairly close to Amsterdam.)

The purpose of this Summit was twofold:  firstly to establish the existence of the International Coalition Against  

Prohibition (ICAP), and secondly, to plan for the 1st International Conference Against Prohibition intended to take place 

either in mid autumn or early next year.

 

We are pleased to announce that the Memorandum and Articles for ICAP were successfully agreed and signed by an 

international body of subscribers and the document will now move forward to Companies House (UK) where ICAP will 

be registered as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee.  This has been significant agreement between national 

representatives, many of whom had never met before, which will also be known from now on as The Aldebaran 

Treaty.

 

Planning for the International Conference will also go ahead although there is an enormous amount of careful and 

painstaking work necessary to be undertaken.

 

As representatives of European and transatlantic nations and organisations we are now bound in solidarity against 

smoking bans and the so many other damaging prohibitions that are lucrative and fashionable in today's world of 

scientific fraud and political stupidity, where adults are treated as children, and freedom of choice is under threat.  

Furthermore, although all our strategies and objectives have not been fully agreed, as much of this will be decided at 

the coming International Conference, we now have the vehicle with which to co-operate, nation with nation, and this

co-operation has already started.  Also, as a result of the Summit, one of the participants - well known British publican 

and freedom fighter Nick Hogan - has already been invited to Brussels by a British MEP in order to lobby and network.

 

Countries represented by the signatories of ICAP's governing document include: England, Scotland, Wales, Germany, 

Holland, Denmark, Italy, America and Canada.

 

Organisations represented at the Summit were:

 

Freedom to Choose (UK)

Freedom to Choose (Scotland)

Forces International

Forces Italy

Forces Holland

Forces Germany

BmB (Germany)

Dary (Denmark)

The Danish Smokers' Party

The Party Against Nannyism (Holland)

Smokers' Interest (Holland)

The Association of Dutch Coffee Shops

The Hungarian Association of Smokers' Societies

 Swan Hospitality Limited

 

We are on the march and will not stop now!

 

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Anti-betuttelingsorganisaties verenigen zich
30 april 2008

Vanavond werd door ons, namens het organisatiecomité, het volgende persbericht verspreid:

P E R S B E R I C H T

Nieuwe internationale koepelorganisatie gaat krachten tegen prohibitie bundelen

De invloed van de overheid op het dagelijkse leven breidt zich, over de hele wereld, steeds verder uit. Het wordt daarom tijd dat er een krachtige, internationale tegenbeweging wordt opgezet die de keuzevrijheid van burgers om zélf invulling aan hun leven of bedrijf te geven sterk gaat verdedigen.

Het is daarom dat op 2 en 3 mei in Nederland vertegenwoordigers van een groot aantal organisaties wereldwijd tijdens een bijeenkomst de handen ineen gaat slaan om een nieuwe koepelorganisatie op te richten: de 'International Coalition Against Prohibition' (ICAP). Op deze topconferentie zullen organisaties vertegenwoordigerd zijn uit onder andere de VS, Canada, Ierland, Groot-Brittanië (inclusief Schotland en Wales), Denemarken, Duitsland, België, Hongarije, Italië, Frankrijk en, uiteraard, Nederland.

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