Re: Yanks...

> Date: 	 Fri, 8 Nov 1996 11:23:43 -0600 (CST)
> From: 	 "<Mark Andrew Siefert>" <cthulhu@csd.uwm.edu>
> Reply-to:	 FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> To:		 FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Cc:		 FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject:	 Re: Yanks...

> On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Niall Gilsenan wrote:
> 
> > BTW why doesn't somone just run a future  American civil war in
space
> >  campaign using FT?  At least it would be on topic and get rid of
all that 
> > frustration out there...
  
>	The idea is still floating about in my head but it has since
mutated in 
> another from.  Now, I am thinking along the lines of a free 
> market/democratic allience (Made up from Russia and the Western half
of 
> the "former United States.") against the socialist/statist United
Nations 
> (Made up from everyone else.) for control of the inner solar system. 
The 
> Alliance wants to leave earth to create a "free society" on a 
> terra-formmed Mars while the UN pushes it's claim that outer space is
"the 
> communal property of mankind."  (BTW, an excellent book with a similar

> theme is "Pallas" by L. Neil Smith.)
> 
> Later, 
> Mark A. Siefert

I thought I'd seen the idea somewhere before.

The UN a socialist alliance?  Hmm.. We obviously have a different 
view of them on this side of the world (although not necessarily a 
better one. Paranoia methinks.

Sounds like an interesting book though.