X-Message-Number: 6914
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 16:13:00 +0100
From: John de Rivaz <>
Subject: Re: fundraising professionals

In article: <> 
 writes:
> Before I agreed to take the fund raising job, I called several 
> professional fund raising companies as I thought that would be the best 
> way for Alcor to do fundraising. The minimum fees they charged were much
> more than we receive in donations. You have to pay them regardless of
> whether they help you collect any money or not.
> 

I have heard exactly the same myself, and also about accountants who raise 
money for new businesses on the stock market.

"Professional" was once almost a synonym for "excellent" - now (as a 
noun) it is a synonym for "con-man". By organising themselves into cartels, 
many professions are now just organisations for shafting the clients. I 
joined Terra Libra as a result of reading about this freedom group in 
Venturist Monthly News, thinking that here was an organisation that may be 

able to do something about the rape of the world by the professions. According 
to their literature, it would use non-violent, legitimate market foces to 
achieve the "terra libra shift". 

A few months ago Terra Libra appointed professional managers for their LMS 
program, and what was once a highly successful system of promoting freedom 
information is failing fast as a result.

This is a bit off topic for cryonet, but if anyone would like to continue 
to discuss it, please email <> to get onto the 
LMS list (message address <>) which is a pressure 
list for disgruntled LMS members.

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