From:	Mach <mach@****.CALTECH.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Help Wanted
Date:	Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:00:10 -0700

On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Paul J. Adam wrote:

> Humanis Policlub is a political movement, not a terrorist movement. Yes,
> it's widely known or suspected that they have links to - may even be
> outright sponsors of - violent groups like Alamos 20,000, but they are
> an open, legitimate political organisation.
>
> A real-world example would be Sinn Fein.

I am curious if you were using the recent bombing in Omagh as an
inspiration for this.

Sinn Fein is precicely the kind of organisation that I was picturing in
this instance. They want a unified Ireland free of British rule, but are
seen to be trying to bring it about through peaceful and political means,
but are closely associated with the IRA, which has used terrorist tactics
in the past. And similar to the "Real IRA" you have Humanis, then Alamos
20K which seems to be almost a figure-head at this point, and then you
have the more militant extreemists on the street, the "skinheads shambling
with a swastika and a Molotov cocktail" as described below.

> >I especially find
> >it ironic that a group that wishes to split that races apart has a
> >multi-racial membership.
>
> They surely do. Out of a membership list of several thousand, you can
> count some metahumans. You won't need both hands... but they have
> metahuman members, therefore they are multiracial.

It is less ironic than you might think, as it is a case of art imitating
life. There are a small number of organizations for African Americans
that wish to bring about racial isolation, especially starting with
schools, with the thought that it would remove the influence of racism.
In their logic, the fight for racial integration has served to increase
tensions and hatred between the races, and so they would see it undone.
In my estimation, they seem to be rationalizing ghettoization as
desirable, but then, they would probably consider my European heritage
reason enough to not have a valid opinion on the subject.

> >Basically, I think that if you're going to call them Humanis, you should
> >run them like the Humanis.
>
> SR2, page 29. Humanis are _not_ all skinheads shambling about with a
> swastika flag in one hand and a Molotov cocktail in the other, muttering
> incoherently about how the only good trog is a dead trog.

Beyond that, they wouldn't exist long as a political institution if that
is all that they were. I figure that their archatypical Human Supremacist
character in the "Contacts" section gives a rather strong negative
impression of such organizations, but they can't all be like that or they
would not be able to gather significant support. Even if people agree
with the intent, extreme methods will quickly alienate a group from
influential support.

--My two yen

Jeff