Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] SMOM map?<br/>
Date: Jul 10, 2003 @ 16:42<br/>
Author: Lowell G. McManus (&quot;Lowell G. McManus&quot; &lt;mcmanus71496@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-329569624">To understand SMOM, one must understand that there is SOVEREIGNTY, and then<br/>
there are SOVEREIGN STATES.<br/>
<br/>
While SMOM is recognized as sovereign by Italy and quite a number of other<br/>
(mostly Catholic) nations, it is a sovereign ENTITY without sovereign territory.<br/>
Its sovereignty is based not upon the current possession of any sovereign<br/>
territory, but upon its historicity as a holder of sovereign lands in various<br/>
times and places and upon the great modern utility of its international<br/>
impartiality.  The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem<br/>
of Rhodes and of Malta exists simply because it has existed since the eleventh<br/>
century, not because it is holds a charter from any current or past sovereign<br/>
government.  It exists by its own power.  That is what sovereignty means, and<br/>
this is why certain countries recognize it as sovereign.<br/>
<br/>
In the final analysis, the real estate upon which SMOM is headquartered in Rome<br/>
is Italian, but Italy accords the order &quot;extraterritorial&quot; status.  In this<br/>
respect, the premises are more analogous to the embassy of a government-in-exile<br/>
(in that it enjoys immunities) than it is to the territory of a sovereign state.<br/>
SMOM&#39;s activities upon its properties in Rome are sovereign, but so are its many<br/>
humanitarian activities elsewhere in Italy and the other countries that<br/>
recognize its sovereignty.  SMOM issues postage stamps, but so does the United<br/>
Nations.  SMOM issues passports (only three by some accounts), but so does the<br/>
Red Cross.  SMOM issues valid license plates for its vehicles, but so do most of<br/>
the Indian tribes and nations in Oklahoma.  None of these functions make these<br/>
entities sovereign STATES.<br/>
<br/>
If anybody cares anymore what the UN thinks, it classifies SMOM among:<br/>
&quot;entities and intergovernmental organizations having received a standing<br/>
invitation to participate as observers.&quot;<br/>
<br/>
Back to your original question, the boundaries of SMOM&#39;s &quot;extraterritorial&quot;<br/>
premises are established in the Italian land titles to the properties that it<br/>
owns.  Any maps would probably have to be found in the offices of the local<br/>
Roman bureaucracy.<br/>
<br/>
Lowell<br/>
<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="qreply">   ----- Original Message ----- <br/>
  From: chris schulz<br/>
  To: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a><br/>
  Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 3:58 AM<br/>
  Subject: [BoundaryPoint] SMOM map?<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
  Hi,<br/>
  does anyone know about a map of SMOM, where one can see boundaries around the<br/>
buildings in Via Condotti and the Villa Malta on Monte Aventin?<br/>
  Regards, Chris<br/>
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