Lars Redoubt
December 8th, 2008, 01:36 AM
27 SEP 06
Hail David! It was great to receive your insightful letter of 21 SEP 06. Your explanation of Biological Determinism supports the science of eugenics within races, since the racial bell curve can be moved in the direction of improvement by programs which limit the dysgenic & increase the eugenic members of the race. Race-mixing of people, like race-mixing of animals is dysgenic, as any dairy farmer or dog-breeder can say. Elmer Pendell wrote in “Sex Versus Civilization” of “Problem-makers” versus “Problem-solvers.” Problem-solvers create civilizations & Problem-makers destroy them; thus, any program which allows the multiplication of Problem-makers endangers civilization. The essential element of civilization remaining to us in formerly White countries is our infrastructure of production & distribution, just as Roman cities relied upon their roads, bridges & aqueducts for their food & water. My childhood belief in the wisdom of eugenics, which I gathered from books by Paul Popenoe, prevents me from being a “White Supremacist,” since there are inferior Whites who must be culled, rather than imposed upon superior non-Whites, as I’ve seen in White-ruled Africa, & in the American South. Many KKK members I’ve known are non-Whites, such as mestizos & mulattos, so they tout their ‘superiority’ toward the darkest Blacks.
South Africa & Zimbabwe used to have excellent infrastructure under White rule, but not so under Black rule, as now. Contacts in South Africa report maggots in the tap water & repeated power outages. A joke going the rounds is the question: “What did we use before we had candles?” Answer: “Electricity.” Of course, maggots in tap water would be the Black equivalent of piped-in soup: just heat & eat!
Re your observations on the progress of turning North America, & eventually, the Western Hemisphere, into a single political-economic entity: Historically, it begins with a customs union, now called “free trade” amongst member states, which results in political union under one ruler or government. This is how the remains of Germany became a state in 1870, under a Prussian king, who became emperor or kaiser. This is how the European Union is developing.
In this case, it has been noted that the Euro subsidizes Europe’s weakest economies at the expense of the strongest. This will occur with the introduction of the “Amero” in The Americas. Such a deal! Political-economic amalgamation of The Western Hemisphere has long been a consistent ambition of our plutocratic, Judeo-Freemasonic rulers, who some call “the elite,” simply because they are on top. Since foul scum also rises to the top, we should not favor these criminals with euphemisms, but we should call them what they are: scum.
Our increasing subordination of economic interests, chiefly motivated by minority greed, to our biological interests on behalf of the common good, involves our selling out of ourselves for money. We have thus given up our livingspace, our standard of living, our children’s futures, &, eventually, ourselves, for those magical zogbucks which the jews create out of nothing, & for which we pay interest without end. Maybe the Goy cattle will understand the scums’ scam when they face the ultimate sellout: How many bucks will one take in exchange for his life? Then he can be the richest corpse on the beach! Or, one could be “president for life” in Bagdad.
Few sheeple comprehend that we do not protect principles. Principles protect us, like adhering to safety rules. I do not drive on the righthand side of the road because I am ‘protecting’ the principle of righthand road-use. I do so in the hope that others will do the same, for my own good & the common good. I’m sure that there are those who might be willing to drive on the lefthand side, for sufficient money! Sheeple volunteer to wage war in Iraq for pay & pension, even if they are not in any condition to receive them, after they have agreed to such employment. Sacrificing principles for zogbucks is shortsighted, which is often a sign of stupidity on the part of people who sellout to the highest bidder. As long as capable people aspire to becoming scum, this situation will continue.
Thanks for pointing out the subtle, but all-important distinction revealed in the change of title from “King of the English” to “King of England.” Some Brit-twits say “There’ll always be an England.” I reply that there need not be any English for there to be an England. Their reply is silence. ”American” correctly includes all denizens, as well as flora & fauna, living in “the Americas.” America is a place, not a race, & it is a location, not a nation. As Orwell warned: “Tyranny begins with the abuse of language.” Talking straight means that we can think straight. This is why we must object to the misuse of words like “nation” & “democracy,” neither of which the USA ever was. Coupled to the abuse of language, as exemplified in the current use of “gay,” is the ZOG’s insistence that there be no connection between belief & behavior. The Pope recently came out with this form of lobotomy-thought, in his wish that people of opposing beliefs can “just get along together.” In other words, ZOG thinks that different belief need not affect behavior! On the contrary, if people behave the same, it means that their touted differences in belief are false. Let’s hear the Goy cheer, loud & clear: “DUUUH!”
Another ‘small’ change which affected the British monarchy was the killing of the sovereign Charles I by Cromwell & his jew backers. The “restoration” of the monarchy under Charles II was not a restoration of sovereignty, since Charles II lost the power to coin & to issue money, which fell into the hands of the jewish “Bank of England,” behind their purchased parliamentary frontmen. Successful coup d’etats maintain outward forms but alter their substance, so as to gull the Goyim. The Freemasonic Founding Felons of the USA prated that “we have a government of laws, not of men,” but the laws are always subject to interpretation by men, & promises written on paper are no better than the men who make them, nor their successors. I note the humor in the fact that all U.S. politicians & soldiers swear “to defend the Constitution.” They do not swear to defend the people, the government & the territory of the USA! This means that purported jew, Bush II, could abandon the USA to its Chinese buyers & take The U.S. Constitution with him, for safekeeping in Israel. Such a deal!
Thanks for outlining the scheme to build a superhighway from Mexico City to Canada, via the USA. It reminds me of Cecil Rhodes’ “Cape to Cairo Railway” plan, which would require the extension of British influence for its right of way, as did the construction of The Hejaz Railway to Mecca & the Berlin to Basrah Railway required German influence in those areas. Righteous jew, Benjamin Freedman, said in an interview that the real cause of World War I was The Berlin to Basrah Railway project, which would have allowed Germany to ship German goods directly to German ships in Basrah, thus circumventing British surcharges on German goods. The oilfields of Kirkuk & Mosul were also British objectives, through which the German railway ran. The Brits had stolen Egypt & Kuwait from The Turkish Empire before World War I, & their greed knew no bounds, especially in regard to smashing German competition, which was the real cause of that genocidal disaster for the White Race.
Jew propagandists accused Hitler of building the autobahns as invasion routes, so we may view the ZOG’s “CANUSMEX” super highway in a similar light. Chinese can drive south & meet the Mexicans driving north, somewhere in the USA. Such a deal! The scum will have completed their levelling of all Whites down to Turd World status as ‘have-nots’ in their kosher capitalist paradise of infinite profits & infinitely cheaper labor costs. The problem may be to pay people sufficient to purchase all the consumer goods the scum want to sell, but they will most likely adopt the “company store scam” in which workers are paid token wages, so they must become debt-slaves, as well as wage-slaves. “Double-double good!” as Orwell would say.
Re Brazil, the former colony of Portugal: The Treaty of Tordesillas, as I recall, divided The New World, or so the Catholic powers of Spain & Portugal thought, into two equal parts. As exploration was extended, Spain turned out to possess the lion’s share of the continent of South America, & more, although Portugal had centuries of headstart, with its India trade, its colonies in India & China, as well as its huge African territories, from which it obtained Black slaves in abundance. Black slaves were sold to Spaniards & Portuguese wherever labor was required to work the profitable plantations in the Caribbean & coastal regions of Latin America, including Mexico. That is why one often sees mestizos with negro features, usually from Veracruz. ZOG deems them “White, Hispanics,” for census & criminal statistics. I was not in Argentina, so I know nothing of their silver deposits, but I was assured by a Mexican geologist that Mexico’s existing mineral wealth remains largely untapped because jew mining monopolies, such as those of the Guggenheims want to restrict production on behalf of profits, as with the jew-dominated oil industry.
Portuguese is one of many provincial dialects spoken on the Iberian Peninsula, as I learned during my travels in Spain & Portugal. “Spanish” is really Castillian & Andalucian, thanks to Cervantes. As you say, they blend with their neighbors, so Catalan resembles the French spoken in Provence, as I first heard on my train trip from Paris to Barcelona. My subsequent train trips throughout Iberia were third class, so I noted how few passengers spoke “Spanish” in Spain! This has also been the case for Third Class passengers on trains in Germany & Britain, where local dialects & even languages are heard, as distinct from High German & “BBC English.” Zündel told me that he had to learn High German, so he could speak to Germans who did not come from his native Schwabia. In my experience, Bavarian is even less understandable to one who speaks only High German, that is, Prussian.
Zündel’s present wife, whose real name I do not know, because I understand her “Rimland” alias comes from a former husband, may be a jewess, based on her writings. Apparently, she was born in Odessa, which is “jew-city.” Her claims of Mennonite background are doubtful, since she describes “jews & Mennonites” living in Paraguay, in her “Nazi-hunting” novel, “Demon Doctor.” She described the Mennonites as “tall & blond”, whereas the jews were neither, which accurately describes “Rimland.” A real Mennonite said she could not be one of them, for Mennonites do not seek to capitalize on their purported sufferings as she does. Basically, her message is similar to her incarcerated husband’s: “me-me-me” & “gimme-gimme-gimme.” The reality is that both are shekel-grubbers who live for no cause beyond themselves. I can quote Z who declared: “I am the cause!”
I don’t know what happened to the Southern Whites who fled to Brazil which abolished slavery, peacefully, in 1888. I have no sympathy for anyone who needs niggers. Been there, seen it, in Africa. As Earnest Sevier Cox wrote in “White America,” a White civilization depends for its existence on a White workingclass. To maintain a White workingclass, the White worker must receive enough to support himself & his family. There is no such thing as “cheap labor.” One bumpersticker read: “If I’d known the trouble it’d cause, I’d have picked the cotton myself.” Eric Margolis, himself a jew, asked his Beverley Hills buddies why California alias Mexifornia was broke. They explained that a cheap worker for them had around 15 dependents, who were funded by the U.S. tax-payers. Cheap for jews, exorbitant for tax-payers. Whitey must pay for his own kids, & he must pay for aliens’ offspring. That’s why we have few & they have many.
In my experience, Mennonites are productive, honest, but defenseless. When I was in Mexico, the Mennonite colony near Durango was being dispossessed of their lands by mestizo squatters, with government complicity. The Mexicans cheerfully allowed the dumb Gringos to buy up a waterless area populated by cactus, scorpions & rattlesnakes, for they could not use it themselves, but the Mennonites dug wells & cleared the land for crops & dairy-farming. When the Mexicans saw the fruits of their hard labors & intelligence, the mestizo-bandidos wanted it! The Mennonites’ religion was inscrutable to the Mexicans, even whose atheists remain Catholics, as a Mexican attorney said to me. The Mennonites did not race-mix, for they brought their women with them. I was astonished when I saw these tall, blond farmers wearing their Gringo-style straw hats, bonnets & bib overalls the first time I shopped in the Durango market, where I bought “queso menonita” (Mennonite cheese). They did not speak Spanish, for the most part, so I had to translate for a Mexican Mennonite (White) family at the border crossing in Juarez. I had my U.S. passport, but I was the one who spoke fluent Spanish, whereas the Mennonite who had a Mexican passport, spoke only English! The Mexican customs official was scandalized. As it was, I almost missed my train down to Durango, since I barely broke the Mennonite-Mexican standoff which had delayed my timely departure. I barely boarded the train on time, as it was, but my knowledge of Spanish saved me. My German saved me from missing my train to Copenhagen when I arrived in Paris, since the French refused to speak English or Spanish. That was in 1964. In Mexico, if one does not speak “the national language,” he is not considered Mexican, regardless if he is born there. Gringos were in the minority in Mexico, as we are in Brownest Yakima, where my Spanish comes in handy. Oh, I met a Mennonite from Durango who told me they were emigrating to Bolivia, where the indios would appreciate their productivity. Mennonites produce & the mestizos take. Such a deal! The more they feed, the more the others breed, which guarantees the Mennonites will be dispossessed, wherever they go. American Whites ain’t seen nothing, yet. White farmers in Africa fed their foes so well that they must now leave their lands or die on them. I find that mentality inscrutable, as well as suicidal. I diagnose the disease as a combination of myopic money-madness complicated by acute christinsanity. This disease is usually incurable & fatal.
Re degenerate art: I understand that the jew-commie, Picasso, concocted the opus which he later dubbed “Guernica”, in 1935, but The Spanish Civil War began only in 1936! As for the quality of daubing which produced “The Scream,” I would PAY NOT TO look at it, if I had no other choice. Another sheenie-scam artist was Einstein who stole his E=Mc2 from Poincare.
All the best & ORION!
Eric
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Write to:
Mr. Eric Thomson
P.O. Box 896
Yakima, Washington 98907-0896
U.S.A.
Hail David! It was great to receive your insightful letter of 21 SEP 06. Your explanation of Biological Determinism supports the science of eugenics within races, since the racial bell curve can be moved in the direction of improvement by programs which limit the dysgenic & increase the eugenic members of the race. Race-mixing of people, like race-mixing of animals is dysgenic, as any dairy farmer or dog-breeder can say. Elmer Pendell wrote in “Sex Versus Civilization” of “Problem-makers” versus “Problem-solvers.” Problem-solvers create civilizations & Problem-makers destroy them; thus, any program which allows the multiplication of Problem-makers endangers civilization. The essential element of civilization remaining to us in formerly White countries is our infrastructure of production & distribution, just as Roman cities relied upon their roads, bridges & aqueducts for their food & water. My childhood belief in the wisdom of eugenics, which I gathered from books by Paul Popenoe, prevents me from being a “White Supremacist,” since there are inferior Whites who must be culled, rather than imposed upon superior non-Whites, as I’ve seen in White-ruled Africa, & in the American South. Many KKK members I’ve known are non-Whites, such as mestizos & mulattos, so they tout their ‘superiority’ toward the darkest Blacks.
South Africa & Zimbabwe used to have excellent infrastructure under White rule, but not so under Black rule, as now. Contacts in South Africa report maggots in the tap water & repeated power outages. A joke going the rounds is the question: “What did we use before we had candles?” Answer: “Electricity.” Of course, maggots in tap water would be the Black equivalent of piped-in soup: just heat & eat!
Re your observations on the progress of turning North America, & eventually, the Western Hemisphere, into a single political-economic entity: Historically, it begins with a customs union, now called “free trade” amongst member states, which results in political union under one ruler or government. This is how the remains of Germany became a state in 1870, under a Prussian king, who became emperor or kaiser. This is how the European Union is developing.
In this case, it has been noted that the Euro subsidizes Europe’s weakest economies at the expense of the strongest. This will occur with the introduction of the “Amero” in The Americas. Such a deal! Political-economic amalgamation of The Western Hemisphere has long been a consistent ambition of our plutocratic, Judeo-Freemasonic rulers, who some call “the elite,” simply because they are on top. Since foul scum also rises to the top, we should not favor these criminals with euphemisms, but we should call them what they are: scum.
Our increasing subordination of economic interests, chiefly motivated by minority greed, to our biological interests on behalf of the common good, involves our selling out of ourselves for money. We have thus given up our livingspace, our standard of living, our children’s futures, &, eventually, ourselves, for those magical zogbucks which the jews create out of nothing, & for which we pay interest without end. Maybe the Goy cattle will understand the scums’ scam when they face the ultimate sellout: How many bucks will one take in exchange for his life? Then he can be the richest corpse on the beach! Or, one could be “president for life” in Bagdad.
Few sheeple comprehend that we do not protect principles. Principles protect us, like adhering to safety rules. I do not drive on the righthand side of the road because I am ‘protecting’ the principle of righthand road-use. I do so in the hope that others will do the same, for my own good & the common good. I’m sure that there are those who might be willing to drive on the lefthand side, for sufficient money! Sheeple volunteer to wage war in Iraq for pay & pension, even if they are not in any condition to receive them, after they have agreed to such employment. Sacrificing principles for zogbucks is shortsighted, which is often a sign of stupidity on the part of people who sellout to the highest bidder. As long as capable people aspire to becoming scum, this situation will continue.
Thanks for pointing out the subtle, but all-important distinction revealed in the change of title from “King of the English” to “King of England.” Some Brit-twits say “There’ll always be an England.” I reply that there need not be any English for there to be an England. Their reply is silence. ”American” correctly includes all denizens, as well as flora & fauna, living in “the Americas.” America is a place, not a race, & it is a location, not a nation. As Orwell warned: “Tyranny begins with the abuse of language.” Talking straight means that we can think straight. This is why we must object to the misuse of words like “nation” & “democracy,” neither of which the USA ever was. Coupled to the abuse of language, as exemplified in the current use of “gay,” is the ZOG’s insistence that there be no connection between belief & behavior. The Pope recently came out with this form of lobotomy-thought, in his wish that people of opposing beliefs can “just get along together.” In other words, ZOG thinks that different belief need not affect behavior! On the contrary, if people behave the same, it means that their touted differences in belief are false. Let’s hear the Goy cheer, loud & clear: “DUUUH!”
Another ‘small’ change which affected the British monarchy was the killing of the sovereign Charles I by Cromwell & his jew backers. The “restoration” of the monarchy under Charles II was not a restoration of sovereignty, since Charles II lost the power to coin & to issue money, which fell into the hands of the jewish “Bank of England,” behind their purchased parliamentary frontmen. Successful coup d’etats maintain outward forms but alter their substance, so as to gull the Goyim. The Freemasonic Founding Felons of the USA prated that “we have a government of laws, not of men,” but the laws are always subject to interpretation by men, & promises written on paper are no better than the men who make them, nor their successors. I note the humor in the fact that all U.S. politicians & soldiers swear “to defend the Constitution.” They do not swear to defend the people, the government & the territory of the USA! This means that purported jew, Bush II, could abandon the USA to its Chinese buyers & take The U.S. Constitution with him, for safekeeping in Israel. Such a deal!
Thanks for outlining the scheme to build a superhighway from Mexico City to Canada, via the USA. It reminds me of Cecil Rhodes’ “Cape to Cairo Railway” plan, which would require the extension of British influence for its right of way, as did the construction of The Hejaz Railway to Mecca & the Berlin to Basrah Railway required German influence in those areas. Righteous jew, Benjamin Freedman, said in an interview that the real cause of World War I was The Berlin to Basrah Railway project, which would have allowed Germany to ship German goods directly to German ships in Basrah, thus circumventing British surcharges on German goods. The oilfields of Kirkuk & Mosul were also British objectives, through which the German railway ran. The Brits had stolen Egypt & Kuwait from The Turkish Empire before World War I, & their greed knew no bounds, especially in regard to smashing German competition, which was the real cause of that genocidal disaster for the White Race.
Jew propagandists accused Hitler of building the autobahns as invasion routes, so we may view the ZOG’s “CANUSMEX” super highway in a similar light. Chinese can drive south & meet the Mexicans driving north, somewhere in the USA. Such a deal! The scum will have completed their levelling of all Whites down to Turd World status as ‘have-nots’ in their kosher capitalist paradise of infinite profits & infinitely cheaper labor costs. The problem may be to pay people sufficient to purchase all the consumer goods the scum want to sell, but they will most likely adopt the “company store scam” in which workers are paid token wages, so they must become debt-slaves, as well as wage-slaves. “Double-double good!” as Orwell would say.
Re Brazil, the former colony of Portugal: The Treaty of Tordesillas, as I recall, divided The New World, or so the Catholic powers of Spain & Portugal thought, into two equal parts. As exploration was extended, Spain turned out to possess the lion’s share of the continent of South America, & more, although Portugal had centuries of headstart, with its India trade, its colonies in India & China, as well as its huge African territories, from which it obtained Black slaves in abundance. Black slaves were sold to Spaniards & Portuguese wherever labor was required to work the profitable plantations in the Caribbean & coastal regions of Latin America, including Mexico. That is why one often sees mestizos with negro features, usually from Veracruz. ZOG deems them “White, Hispanics,” for census & criminal statistics. I was not in Argentina, so I know nothing of their silver deposits, but I was assured by a Mexican geologist that Mexico’s existing mineral wealth remains largely untapped because jew mining monopolies, such as those of the Guggenheims want to restrict production on behalf of profits, as with the jew-dominated oil industry.
Portuguese is one of many provincial dialects spoken on the Iberian Peninsula, as I learned during my travels in Spain & Portugal. “Spanish” is really Castillian & Andalucian, thanks to Cervantes. As you say, they blend with their neighbors, so Catalan resembles the French spoken in Provence, as I first heard on my train trip from Paris to Barcelona. My subsequent train trips throughout Iberia were third class, so I noted how few passengers spoke “Spanish” in Spain! This has also been the case for Third Class passengers on trains in Germany & Britain, where local dialects & even languages are heard, as distinct from High German & “BBC English.” Zündel told me that he had to learn High German, so he could speak to Germans who did not come from his native Schwabia. In my experience, Bavarian is even less understandable to one who speaks only High German, that is, Prussian.
Zündel’s present wife, whose real name I do not know, because I understand her “Rimland” alias comes from a former husband, may be a jewess, based on her writings. Apparently, she was born in Odessa, which is “jew-city.” Her claims of Mennonite background are doubtful, since she describes “jews & Mennonites” living in Paraguay, in her “Nazi-hunting” novel, “Demon Doctor.” She described the Mennonites as “tall & blond”, whereas the jews were neither, which accurately describes “Rimland.” A real Mennonite said she could not be one of them, for Mennonites do not seek to capitalize on their purported sufferings as she does. Basically, her message is similar to her incarcerated husband’s: “me-me-me” & “gimme-gimme-gimme.” The reality is that both are shekel-grubbers who live for no cause beyond themselves. I can quote Z who declared: “I am the cause!”
I don’t know what happened to the Southern Whites who fled to Brazil which abolished slavery, peacefully, in 1888. I have no sympathy for anyone who needs niggers. Been there, seen it, in Africa. As Earnest Sevier Cox wrote in “White America,” a White civilization depends for its existence on a White workingclass. To maintain a White workingclass, the White worker must receive enough to support himself & his family. There is no such thing as “cheap labor.” One bumpersticker read: “If I’d known the trouble it’d cause, I’d have picked the cotton myself.” Eric Margolis, himself a jew, asked his Beverley Hills buddies why California alias Mexifornia was broke. They explained that a cheap worker for them had around 15 dependents, who were funded by the U.S. tax-payers. Cheap for jews, exorbitant for tax-payers. Whitey must pay for his own kids, & he must pay for aliens’ offspring. That’s why we have few & they have many.
In my experience, Mennonites are productive, honest, but defenseless. When I was in Mexico, the Mennonite colony near Durango was being dispossessed of their lands by mestizo squatters, with government complicity. The Mexicans cheerfully allowed the dumb Gringos to buy up a waterless area populated by cactus, scorpions & rattlesnakes, for they could not use it themselves, but the Mennonites dug wells & cleared the land for crops & dairy-farming. When the Mexicans saw the fruits of their hard labors & intelligence, the mestizo-bandidos wanted it! The Mennonites’ religion was inscrutable to the Mexicans, even whose atheists remain Catholics, as a Mexican attorney said to me. The Mennonites did not race-mix, for they brought their women with them. I was astonished when I saw these tall, blond farmers wearing their Gringo-style straw hats, bonnets & bib overalls the first time I shopped in the Durango market, where I bought “queso menonita” (Mennonite cheese). They did not speak Spanish, for the most part, so I had to translate for a Mexican Mennonite (White) family at the border crossing in Juarez. I had my U.S. passport, but I was the one who spoke fluent Spanish, whereas the Mennonite who had a Mexican passport, spoke only English! The Mexican customs official was scandalized. As it was, I almost missed my train down to Durango, since I barely broke the Mennonite-Mexican standoff which had delayed my timely departure. I barely boarded the train on time, as it was, but my knowledge of Spanish saved me. My German saved me from missing my train to Copenhagen when I arrived in Paris, since the French refused to speak English or Spanish. That was in 1964. In Mexico, if one does not speak “the national language,” he is not considered Mexican, regardless if he is born there. Gringos were in the minority in Mexico, as we are in Brownest Yakima, where my Spanish comes in handy. Oh, I met a Mennonite from Durango who told me they were emigrating to Bolivia, where the indios would appreciate their productivity. Mennonites produce & the mestizos take. Such a deal! The more they feed, the more the others breed, which guarantees the Mennonites will be dispossessed, wherever they go. American Whites ain’t seen nothing, yet. White farmers in Africa fed their foes so well that they must now leave their lands or die on them. I find that mentality inscrutable, as well as suicidal. I diagnose the disease as a combination of myopic money-madness complicated by acute christinsanity. This disease is usually incurable & fatal.
Re degenerate art: I understand that the jew-commie, Picasso, concocted the opus which he later dubbed “Guernica”, in 1935, but The Spanish Civil War began only in 1936! As for the quality of daubing which produced “The Scream,” I would PAY NOT TO look at it, if I had no other choice. Another sheenie-scam artist was Einstein who stole his E=Mc2 from Poincare.
All the best & ORION!
Eric
--------------------
Write to:
Mr. Eric Thomson
P.O. Box 896
Yakima, Washington 98907-0896
U.S.A.