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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (381237)9/8/2010 2:57:20 PM
From: Maurice Winn1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 793808
 
Excellent idea, but I doubt he'd fall for it. <Suppose I want to sell my citizenship to Osama bin Laden? Or somebody like him who is off the radar. Is that OK? >

If somebody committed a crime, their citizenship would be forfeited, in whole or part. Say they committed a parking offence, their citizenship could be frozen until they paid. In the case of Osama, they would be captured, prosecuted, their body parts* sold at auction to the highest bidder and their citizenship forfeited and sold by the government to the highest bidder.

It would be quite a disincentive to commit crimes if citizenships were forfeited in whole or part.

The way citizenship works at present is on Hippie Commune principles. Those principles don't work well for small groups and don't work well for large ones either. The USSR got along for most of a century but it was not a great way to live. Private property and individual ownership is the way to go.

Mqurice

* It might be more useful to keep them prisoner and exchange food for information on their past allegiances. Dead men tell no tales - which is a good argument for keeping people prisoner instead of stopping them talking at some stage. People with things to hide often like the death penalty as it reduces the risk of being caught.
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