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News ItemSUNDAY EXTRA - The Aldebaran TreatyJohn Gray4th May 2008 A landmark agreement amongst anti-prohibition advocates has been established at a summit meeting in Holland. ![]() 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 a significant agreement between national representatives, many of whom had never met before, which will 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 that planning. As representatives of European and transatlantic nations and organisations we are now bound in solidarity against smoking bans and the many other damaging prohibitions that are lucrative to special interests and crassly fashionable amongst followers of "political correctness" 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 or aligned, as much of this will be decided at the coming International Conference, we now have the vehicle with which to coöperate, nation with nation, and this coöperation has already started. Also, as a result of the Summit, one of the participants — the 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 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 Ltd. (UK) We are on the march and will not stop now! |