Gay Parallel Republic (GPR) - General information
Kin...@iname.com
The entity which now calls itself Gay Parallel Republic or GPR was set up
on august 15,1977.It is pursuing its existence and activities as this
report is being written and posted.
The current name and status of the GPR were adopted on june 1,1998.The
GPR officially claims to be a geopolitical entity,which it was the facto
from the very day it was set up.It however expressly denies being a state.
It never seriously contemplated statehood in 21 years of existence.
The GPR is implicitely atheist,entirely secular and culturally and
politicaly separatist.
It is located in the St.Francis river valley,province of Quebec,Canada.
Its southern tip is 28 kilometers (17 miles) away from the United States
of America.
Its area covers 797 square kilometers (308 square miles).
Its limits,last modified on february 22,1994,have a total lengt of 146
kilometers (91 miles).These limits are materialized over their entire
lengt,mostly by rivers or by brooks.
The GPR has a written and systematic law code,last modified on july 26
1998.
The law code of the GPR comprises among other provisions an elaborate
personal status identical for all intents,purposes and effects to the
citizenship status of a macrostate,with rights,duties,prohibitions and
immunities attached.
Due to the fact that it has legislation which is not exactly
compassionnate towards macrostates and cultural or political institutions,
the GPR must not be expected any time soon to go as far as using
expressions borrowed from macronational vocabulary.The GPR has no ranks
or titles of office beyong an equivalent of citizen.It is highly unlikely
that the GPR will ever develop a formal system of government,although it
may well perform certain functions barely distinguishable from the ones
of a macrostate.
The GPR has minimal constitutional provisions,which account for only 6 of
the 123 sections of its law code.Except in constitutional matters,the GPR
has no law applying beyong its territory or to facts which occured before
those same laws were adopted.
The GPR has a flag,designed on june 9,1982 and adopted de facto on may 5
1996.
It can be contacted at kin...@abacom.com
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Bridgewater
of ten members, representing micronations of all kinds. Therefore, due to
Our open membership, We wish to invite the GPR to join the SPUM.
You can visit Our site at http://members.xoom.com/Klausjames/spum.htm .
Please contact them at micro...@hotmail.com .
We are working on many things. The foremost thing we are working on is the
SPUM constitution which is currently being voted on.
Secretary-General of the SPUM.
micro...@hotmail.com .
Kin...@iname.com
"Bridgewater" <nlc...@computer-connection.net> wrote:
> The Splendid Micro-Union if Microstatia (SPUM) is a micronational alliance
> of ten members, representing micronations of all kinds. Therefore, due to
> Our open membership, We wish to invite the GPR to join the SPUM.
In the hours to come,your gracious offer will be the object of a debate
in the GPR.
It should be considered favorably,and a more or less detailed reply
given.
Kingsix
Kin...@iname.com
"Bridgewater" <nlc...@computer-connection.net> wrote:
> The Splendid Micro-Union if Microstatia (SPUM) is a micronational alliance
> of ten members, representing micronations of all kinds. Therefore, due to
> Our open membership, We wish to invite the GPR to join the SPUM.
The GPR would see no inconvenient in becoming an observer in the SPUM
without further debate or formality.
It has also contemplated the possibility of full membership and
participation in the SPUM,and wishes to express the following observations
and reservations.
The GPR calls "normative system" the official texts of other entities,
including macrostates,because it does not allow itself to call by the
name of "law" anything else than its own normative system.This is only
a mental reservation of little or no practical consequences.
The SPUM seems to have incorporated into its normative system the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights,whose contents is not unfamiliar
nor for the most part objectionable to the GPR.
Sections 13(1),16(1) and (3),18 and 26(3) of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights however are wholly at odds with the internal cultural,
juridical and political order of the GPR.As a consequence,the GPR cannot
take onto itself to implement the above mentionned provisions within its
territory.The SPUM is probably in the best position to judge to which
extent such a situation is likely to curtail or prevent the full and
effective membership of the GPR.
Bridgewater
>The GPR would see no inconvenient in becoming an observer in the SPUM
>without further debate or formality.
So, do you officially accept observer membership? If so, you will become an
immediate member of the SPUM and shall be added to Our page as soon as
possible.
>Sections 13(1),16(1) and (3),18 and 26(3) of the Universal Declaration
>of Human Rights however are wholly at odds with the internal cultural,
>juridical and political order of the GPR.As a consequence,the GPR cannot
>take onto itself to implement the above mentionned provisions within its
>territory.The SPUM is probably in the best position to judge to which
>extent such a situation is likely to curtail or prevent the full and
>effective membership of the GPR.
If you cannot obey SPUM law, then you cannot be a full member, I'm afraid.
Sorry. You'll have to be an observer member. Just give me your official
declaration of membership (i.e. just tell me your delegates name and e-mail
and give me a web page address if you have one).
Once you have done so, check Our web page again in a couple of days and
you'll probably see the GPR listed there. Thanks.
Kin...@iname.com
"Bridgewater" <nlc...@computer-connection.net> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> >The GPR would see no inconvenient in becoming an observer in the SPUM
> >without further debate or formality.
>
> So, do you officially accept observer membership? If so, you will become an
> immediate member of the SPUM and shall be added to Our page as soon as
> possible.
I have the honour and the pleasure to confirm you that the Gay Parallel
Republic agrees to become an observer member in the SPUM.
It interprets the status of observer member as distinct and leser than
full membership.It maintains the reservations previously expressed with
regard to full membership in the SPUM,and does not adhere to that
membership for the time being.
It expects to have its full name,that is "Gay Parallel Republic (GPR)"
posted in a reasonnable delay on the webpage of the SPUM,in the list
of observer members of the later.
The GPR has no website and does not contemplate setting one up in a near
future.
The contact person of the GPR will be myself.
Stefan Meysztowicz
Servant and Instrument
of the Gay Parallel Republic (GPR)