Coincidentally, he is also a musician — a rapper who, calling himself Blizz with a group called Stack Paper, appears on a song called "How You Livin' ".
The architect of the movement was Peter Ferrara, a former Harvard Law School student, who, calling it "the craziest idea in the world," sold it, in 1979, to the small-government fundamentalists at the Cato Institute.
The accusations are among those included in a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department on Thursday against Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, who, calling himself "America's toughest sheriff," has waged a relentless crackdown on illegal immigrants.
The 861 position is being advocated by a small but growing number of business owners and others who, calling themselves the tax honesty movement, say that the government operates the I.R.S. illegally.
As an offshoot, Sagan became a member of a small group of 1960s renegade intellectuals (John Lilly, Timothy Leary and Brian O'Leary among them) who, calling themselves the Order of the Dolphins, wondered seriously about human communication with Earthly creatures.
If, as is likely, he has harsher private judgments, he will save them for Sir Emyr Jones Parry, the British ambassador, who, calling from London on Thursday in behalf of Prime Minister Tony Blair, alerted him to the disclosure.
