Many of these graphics are featured in Robert Anton Wilson's book,

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and at the official
Guns & Dope Party Website

The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind. The next greatest crimes committed in the world are equally prompted by avarice and ambition; and are committed, not on sudden passion, but by men of calculation, who keep their heads cool and clear, and who have no thought whatever of going to prison for them. They are committed, not so much by men who violate the laws, as by men who, either by themselves or by their instruments, make the laws; by men who have combined to usurp arbitrary power, and to maintain it by force and fraud, and whose purpose in usurping and maintaining it is by unjust and unequal legislation, to secure to themselves such advantages and monopolies as will enable them to control and extort the labor and properties of other men, and thus impoverish them, in order to minister to their own wealth and aggrandizement. The robberies and wrongs thus committed by these men, in conformity with the laws, --- that is, their own laws --- are as mountains to molehills, compared with the crimes committed by all other criminals, in violation of the laws.
--Lysander Spooner (1808 - 1887)

"The 10th Amendment says all powers not relegated to the federal government are reserved to the states or to the people. Nowhere does it say that a goddamn tsar will be in charge of my medical care and interfere between me and my doctor. If anybody in Philadelphia in the 18th Century had suggested putting something like that in the Constitution, they would have been considered a raving lunatic. This Constitution was not created to establish a tsarist tyranny, it was established to create a free society!"

- Robert Anton Wilson,
speaking on the steps of Santa Cruz City Hall, September 2002,
at an event held in response to a Drug Enforcement Agency raid
on the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana.

WHY OLGA REMAINS ESSENTIAL

Olga remains essential to the serious, scientific and
sincerely surrealist aspects of the Guns and Dope Party.
Personal liberty, scientific and medical freedom,
the rights of Imagination: all these appear dead or dying under the tyranny of Tsarism, and we all need to fight back "by any means necessary." After all, this may become the last -- the very last -- battle for individual rights in this moribund Republic, before rampant medievalism closes down the democratic age.

NONETHELESS, we all need Olga also. Without her, we
might take ourselves -- and featherless biped politics
in general -- too damned seriously, following
the usual "slippery slope" downward from Ideology
to Idiocy. We need the perspectives of our feathered
cousins, no matter how weird they may sound at times.

Thus, while we stand beside the NRA in strict
adherence to the second amendment,
we oppose what Jimmy Breslin called "poor usage of a revolver."
We also oppose poor usage of napalm, bazookas, shrapnel, automatic rifles, nukes, etc. Common Errors in Usage of all of these seem rampant in the Tsarist States, not only by the Goober government there,
but increasingly by the baffled and maddened citizens,
which explains why we feel secession may become necessary.

As the philosopher Claud William Dunkenfield [1889-1945] noted,
"Sooner or later we must take the bull by the tail
and look the facts in the face."

Question: Would Guns and Dope attempt to eliminate all taxes ?

Answer: We'd follow Lysander Spooner's voluntary tax plan combined with the lightspeed of Internet. Every citizen would receive a semi-annual Republic budget, telling what the Republic of Freetopia wanted to do for them or to them, and each would send in their share of the fee for whatever projects seemed sensible and useful to them. Nobody would pay a penny for anything that seemed pointless,useless, invasive,tyrannical or even annoying to them. If nobody paid for a project, it would get dumped for lack of funding.

As Spooner wrote earlier: "Constitutions are utterly worthless to restrain the tyranny of governments, unless it be understood that the people will by force compell the government to remain within constitutional limits. Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people."

Voluntary taxation expresses the endurance of the people directly and immediately, "before the horse gets out of the stable."

Review: The Encyclopedia of Struthian Orthodox Iconography

This third edition of The Encyclopedia of Struthian Orthodox Iconography provides extensive, detailed entries on the major movements, documents, denominations and bipeds within the Western Struthian tradition. From "Olga the First" to "Tsar Ratite," the thematic entries, presented randomly, provide no doubt that ESOI is thorough, scholarly, and effectively accessed with its numerous index points. Its lists of selected works of art for each theme are especially valuable, as this feature is not offered in some sources, such as Babcock and de Selby. Seven indexes to terms discussed in the entries ensure that the user will find references to the subject being sought. An Index of Ancient Mythological and Historical Personages, Places, and Concepts, and an Index of Palaeognathic Personages, Places, and Concepts help the user who is interested in a particular place or the narratives of particular characters, but isn't sure how themes relating to them are categorized. These are followed by an Index of References to the Struthiondicus and Other Sacred Books; an Index of Other Cultures, Religions, and Mythologies; an alphabetical Index of Artists and Works of Art; and an Index of Authors, Literary Texts, Composers, Filmmakers, and Folktales, which includes references from classical to contemporary, including Aesop, Benjamin Franklin, the movie Southern Star, and Walt Disney. A final Index of Other Names and Terms includes topics that appear in the essays but are not themselves mythological, religious, or literary, such as brothels, dogs, and puzzles.