UMMOA Press Brief
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In January 2007, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) reportedly dropped the .UM country code top-level domain (ccTLD) from the master list of domain names in response to the domain being unused, and the desire of the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (ISI) to divest itself of responsibility for the domain. Since the US still legally assumes that Roman law extends to the Internet (false assumption, because it can be demonstrated that Cesidian law really governs the Internet); since the .UM ccTLD also legally represents the United States Minor Outlying Islands, a statistical designation defined by ISO 3166-1, and consisting of 9 or 11 insular United States possessions (map); officers of the Cesidian Root, an intercontinental Internet independent of the ICANN, were prepared to legally occupy the .UM ccTLD as soon as ICANN and the ISI abandoned it. Like any seaworthy ship abandoned in international waters, any pirate could have legally occupied the .UM ccTLD. Once the .UM ccTLD was legally occupied, the President of the Cesidian Root would have used the legally occupied .UM ccTLD to legally annex the United States Minor Outlying Islands (if the US can occupy the Internet based on territorial claims, then the reverse should also be kosher from a legal standpoint...), and would have renamed the islands the United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UMMOA). There were even Italian and Interlingua translations of the name of the new country. The Italian version of the new country's name was the Arcipelago Multi-Oceanico delle Micronazioni Unite (Amomu). In Interlingua the country was the Archipelago Multi-Oceanic del Micronationes Unite (Amomu). Tallini even had a national motto ready ("E Interrete Libertas", or "From the Internet, Freedom", a beautiful flag, a coat of arms, and two additional TLDs for the country's use, the .UMMOA and .AMOMU ccTLDs (later, the .ISLANDS was also established for the UMMOA's use). Unfortunately, these things were no secret to Cesidian Root operators, but were also no secret to US intelligence officers, who are spying on everyone's emails and possibly even undisclosed Internet files, especially the emails and the files of the folks of the Cesidian Root. The .UM ccTLD was not abandoned immediately. In November 2007, at the registry website of www.nic.um, a message stated that "Registration is CLOSED at this time. We are only accepting Registrar Accounts." In December 2007, registration was opened with an "Annual Account Maintenance" fee of $1,200 and a $30 annual domain registration. None of these actions, of course, make sense under a purely economic point of view, and in fact there are no active .UM sites other than the registry itself. These actions would make sense, however, if the sole true purpose of the company is essentially to preserve the sovereignty of the United States over the islands of the UMMOA, and to fend off any possible legitimate and brilliant attack by a rogue Internet like the Cesidian Root. Moreover, the United States Minor Outlying Islands are not quite a "territory" by International legal standards anyway since:
On 19 January 2008 the www.ummoa and www.amomu domains came alive in the Cesidian Root. The Hon. Most Rev. Dr. Cesidio Tallini, who is already Governor of Independent Long Island, Founding Member of the Commonwealth Nations Research Society, President and Founder of the Cesidian Root, and Bishop of the Cesidian Church, started a first Independent Long Island-registered organisation called the United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UMMOA), for the expressed purpose of providing each macro- and micronational member of the organisation an UMMOA-based embassy, so any micronation can stand on legal ground in Montevideo Convention terms. The UMMOA shall exist on the legal foundation called jus cerebri humani, since it is, in essense, the intellectual creation of Tallini, as much as new and distinct territorial claim. Since Tallini was born on Independent Long Island, but not on any of the islands of the UMMOA; since the UMMOA has no indigenous population; Tallini, and any national of the UMMOA federation, has become a citizen of that country by naturalisation (jus via naturalisation). On 6 May 2008, the UMMOA legally invaded the U.S. namespace, and annexed the 9 or 11 insular possessions formerly known as the United States Minor Outlying Islands. On 22 July 2008, the UMMOA has achieved the recognition of all governments and nations members of the International States Parliament for Safety and Peace (ISPSP). The United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UMMOA) is now legally incorporated into the International States Parliament for Safety and Peace (ISPSP), an alternative United Nations (UN) that was juridically recognised by International Law, and the first nations to recognise it were the United States and Italy. Today the International States Parliament for Safety and Peace (ISPSP) has parliamentary and diplomatic delegations in more than 155 nations. For more information on the UMMOA's history, please visit this wiki article: Foreign Relations and International Recognition of the UMMOAThe United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UMMOA) is both a nation and a community of nations.As a nation, the UMMOA is recognised as an archipelago by the International States Parliament for Safety and Peace (ISPSP), a de jure intergovernmental organisation of states. It should thus be noted that the UMMOA is already a subject of international law. As a community of nations, the UMMOA is recognised by, and fosters the development of, several unrecognised nations and micronations. The UMMOA holds these truths to be self-evident: that all nations, big or small, independent and less independent, are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; and that among these rights are life, liberty, and sovereignty! Unlike most sovereign states, the UMMOA doesn't make freedom possible for one people only, but for all peoples, of all nations. This is the very reason the UMMOA came into existence, so it may be the world's first nation founded for the purpose of peace. The UMMOA has active Ambassadors to the US, Italy, Cameroon, and India. In the United States, the UMMOA has authored the "Obama should legalise micronations" petition, a petition that makes it very feasible for governments like the United States to actually legalise micronations in the same way churches, denominations, and sects of many religions are legal today, and without the impractical need for governments to recognise any micronational territorial claims. In Italy, the UMMOA has thus far nominated several Honorary Consuls, and has co-sponsored a major cultural event. In Cameroon, there are efforts underway to foster the de facto or de jure recognition of the UMMOA by the state. In India, the UMMOA has thus far nominated an Honorary Consul, and there are efforts underway to foster the de facto or de jure recognition of the UMMOA by the state. With the help of the Ambassador of the UMMOA to Italy, a Protocol of Reciprocity was signed between HSH Don Basilio Calì, the 77th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta), and the HMRD Cesidio Tallini, Governor and Founder of the United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UMMOA). The UMMOA Passport has been recognised by several unrecognised nations and micronations, but it has also been recognised by the League of Indian Nations of North America (LINNA), another organisation recognised by the ISPSP, and another subject of international law. On 26 June 2010, the UMMOA Passport even gained the de facto recognition of a sovereign state through a Sri Lanka Entry Visa. The UMMOA government believes that a passport, and the UMMOA Passport more specifically, is strong proof of Name, Date of Birth, and Citizenship, nothing more. Passports are legitimately issued not just by territorial entities, but also by landless entities such as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), which has diplomatic relations with more than 100 countries, and passports are even issued by international organisations — the UMMOA is also an international organisation. It is obvious to the UMMOA government, therefore, that no passport, including the UMMOA Passport, is proof of Residence, and this document function is usually undertaken by state-issued Driver Licences or non-Driver ID Cards, and by documents — such as high school, college, or university ID cards; bank statements; computer-printed pay stubs; health insurance/prescription cards; life insurance statements; utility bills; credit card statements; property deeds, etc. — issued entirely by non-state entities. The argument that recognition of passports cannot be granted to an entity that does not fully fulfil all Montevideo Convention requirements — the UMMOA has a defined territory, a government, and a capacity to enter into relations with the other states, but does not have a permanent population — is a logically-flawed argument, because passports establish national Citizenship (and/or organisational Membership), not Residence, which is the factor ultimately required for the fulfilment of all state criteria under the Montevideo Convention, and actually strong evidence of Residence normally requires the existence of documents issued by both state and non-state entities. In summary, the UMMOA government believes that not only are passports legitimately issued by non-state entities, but evidence of actual Residence within a state needs to also be verified by documents issued by non-state entities. The nature of the UMMOAThe United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UMMOA) is both a territorial and non-territorial nation.The true birth of the UMMOA began with the legal annexation of the United States Minor Outlying Islands, which is made up of 11 insular possessions, but the UMMOA today is more than just the physical USMOI territory claimed by the United States. After the development of the Cesidian law jurisdiction, a new legal concept that allows people to break free of the often oppressive ties they have to a specific territorial jurisdiction, the UMMOA experienced a further expansion through a merging of territorial and virtual jurisdiction concepts, a merger which had already started, in reality, with the birth of the UMMOA itself. Since then, the City of Cyberterra has become the virtual capital of the UMMOA, and thus the virtual city has merged with the original 11 insular areas, and has become a very real 12th insular area. Not only does Cyberterra have a different local time compared to the other insular possessions, and the local time is the Cyberterra Mean Time (CMT) time zone, but Cyberterra also has its own terrestrial coordinates of 43°0'0" North and 15°0'0" East in the Adriatic Sea, and therefore in a way occupies a third ocean or sea after the already physically-occupied Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea. Moreover, Cyberterra utilises the amateur radio call sign of IL6, which is in fact the non-official call sign used for the Adriatic Sea islands of the Italian regions of Marche and Abruzzo. Not only was the UMMOA born through the legal annexation of the United States Minor Outlying Islands, but since then it has also grown by legally occupying little more than a mathematical point in the middle of the Adriatic Sea, which occupies no real space through its claim, and thus this claim, the claim of the City of Cyberterra, is also fully legal under international law, as was UMMOA's original legal annexation. *
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Nota Bene: the United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UMMOA) does not support any 501(c)(3) nonprofit organisation. However, we do make donations to Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières as financial resources permit, since it provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters. The UMMOA also encourages others donate to Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières whenever possible. |
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