<DIV>Dear Aubrey and Methuselah Foundation friends,</DIV>
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<DIV> Please remove any links to the WTA from the unfortunate personal statement of James Hughes. I have alreaday written to him several times to ask for an apology, but he has refused to do so since March, and the WTA Board might now be forced to take other actions.</DIV>
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<DIV> The WTA, and my personally, strongly support your work, but we are an apolitical organization and James Hughes had no right to use unlawfully our name and to further refuse withdrawing that offensive post to many of our members. It is interesting to note the Nick Bostrom, current Chair of the WTA, signed under his own name and personal webpage.</DIV>
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<DIV> Sincerely yours,</DIV>
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<DIV> José Luis Cordeiro</DIV>
<DIV><BR><B><I>Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">I am a member of the Board of Directors of the World Transhumanist <BR>Association. I have been appointed Liaison to other transhumanist <BR>organizations.<BR><BR>It has come to my attention that our secretary James Hughes has made <BR>the following donation: <BR><HTTP: MMPDonors.asp?offset="75" www.methuselahfoundation.org>using the <BR>name of our organization. He did not have permission to use our <BR>organization's name, and has refused repeated requests from various <BR>Board members to remove it. He insists that this was a personal <BR>statement that doesn't involve the WTA. While the Board of Directors <BR>of WTA supports your work greatly, we have received complaints <BR>concerning the praise of "Michael Harrington" being submitted under our <BR>name, since our organization Constitution forbids corporate officers <BR>from endorsing any particular political viewpoints in
connection with <BR>our organization's name.<BR><BR>Do you have a policy concerning private donors using organizational <BR>names without permission? Can you remove our organization name so that <BR>it just shows "James Hughes" as the donor instead of "World <BR>Transhumanist Association - James Hughes"? Can you also remove the <BR>link to our website that is included a the bottom of the signature? I <BR>appreciate your attention to this matter. I have included comments <BR>from six of our nine Board Members below to show you the opinions of <BR>the Board. James Hughes' own claim is at the bottom. (The other three <BR>have not commented on this issue.)<BR><BR>--<BR>Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, CISA, CISM, IAM, IBMCP, GSEC<BR><HARVEYNEWSTROM.COM><BR><BR>Jose Cordeiro wrote:<BR>> Please, kindly remove your links and any association to the WTA in <BR>> your personal comments to the Methuselah Prize. I don't personally <BR>> care if you were an admirer of Karl Marx and if you
consider Michael <BR>> Harrington your political mentor, but those are certainly not the <BR>> views of the WTA.<BR><BR>Giulio Prisco wrote:<BR>> not be that James gave 25$ of WTA money AS an official representative <BR>> of the<BR>> WTA, but that James gave 25$ of his money AND he is a member of the <BR>> WTA.<BR><BR>Mike LaTorra wrote:<BR>> He was speaking as a member of the WTA, not a spokesman for the WTA.<BR><BR>Bruce J. Klein wrote:<BR>> Also, after repeated requests from a fellow board member, James Hughes <BR>> refuses to remove two "World Transhumanist Association" links from a <BR>> public statement where he expresses personal political inspirations. <BR>> http://www.methuselahfoundation.org/MMPDonors.asp?offset=75<BR><BR>Harvey Newstrom wrote:<BR>> How can you use the WTA name without WTA authorization?<BR><BR>James Hughes wrote:<BR>> I think Jose's annoyance at the Methuslaeh quote is bizarre, and that <BR>> it was<BR>> a
personal statement that made no particular political affirmation.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><p>
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