"QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q. What would happen to a man who committed a crime and tried to hide out and escape the authorities?
A. A man wouldn't be able to go very far because we could follow him by his purchases. Provided you are an identical twin, working at the same occupation, then you might have a chance in four billion of beating us. We don't have to worry about counterfeiting, because there are no checks. The certificates are non-negotiable. You can't save it and you can't give it away. You are not compelled to spend it, but if you don't, the load is cancelled out. The moment a man tries to hide out and buys anything on this continent, we would have him. The moment that any one individual bought, say, 30 pairs of shoes in a month, the wards would have him for examination. We would have a check on venereal diseases and any other diseases, also.
Q. Would we have the privilege to travel to a foreign country, and what would be our purchasing power?
A. You could go to the Bureau of Foreign Exchange and exchange your certificate for the amount of foreign money desired. You could enjoy yourself, but you could only return and go on an American ship carrying an American flag. There would be no company building ships abroad for this country. You could spend your certificate abroad."
- PUBLIC LECTURE, HOWARD SCOTT APPLETON, WISCONSIN 8-27-37
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"No person will be penalized for commission of a statutory offense."
- PUBLIC LECTURE, HOWARD SCOTT EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA December 1935
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"Now, we're not trying to do the same attitude as people now that is punitive to make you steal. We're saying, "Brother, if you can beat it, we'll reward you." Just as Technocracy long ago has pointed out how to stop the dope racket. Establish a federal clinic, fingerprint, photograph, and examination, and you get free—bear in mind that any racket can operate so long as it distributes 80% of its take—80 cents out of every dollar, but the moment it can only distribute 20 cents out of every dollar, there isn't sufficient take to "keep the boys in line." The moment that you have narcotics free, there isn't arty "take." Who's against it? Your churches, your medical profession. Like the other day, they were going to put a caesarean birth operation on TV—when your Catholic church objected, they have withdrawn it. Something born by caesarean isn't a natural birth—it hasn't any soul, I guess."
- HOWARD SCOTT, CHICAGO 3-15-56
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"Another of these special Sequences is the Armed Forces, Sequence of. The Armed Forces, as the name implies, embraces the ordinary military land, water and air forces, but most important of all, it also includes the entire internal police force of the Continent, the Continental Constabulary. This latter organization has no precedent at the present time. At the present the internal police force consists of the familiar hodge-podge of local municipal police, county sheriffs, state troopers, and various denominations of federal agents, most of the former being controlled by local political machines and racketeers. This Continental Constabulary, by way of contrast, is a single disciplined organization under one single jurisdiction. Every member of the Constabulary is subject to transfer from any part of the country to any other part on short notice.
While the Continental Constabulary is under the discipline of the Armed Forces, it receives its instructions and authorization for specific action from the Social Relations and Area Control.
This Sequence—the Area Control—is the coordinating body for the various Functional Sequences and social units operating in any one geographical area of one or more Regional Divisions. It operates directly under the Continental Control."
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