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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (119240)	11/12/2003 5:04:37 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<I did not realize they had taken away your passport. The slaves could not choose to leave for another country or to build their own town. Are you saying that you cannot move to some smaller island to live as you please? > Sunny, it's true that I can, for now, move to Australia and live there. But that's a tweedle dee versus tweedle dum "choice". But other than that, my passport doesn't get me anywhere. If I go to the USA for example, and show them my excellent passport, they'll ask to see my exit ticket and give me a couple of months tourist visa. If I overstay, it's into the immigration slammer and deportation after a spot of aggro. You obviously don't understand how limited freedom is in the world. There are no externalities. Everywhere is owned. One can't just go somewhere, to a smaller island to live as one pleases. One can't just build one's own town. The difference from slavery is not too great. It's all against one's will and force is the arbiter and the slave is the victim of the force. Stockholm syndrome is about the right description. It's part of human personality to accept tribal alpha male dominance hierarchies and submit to Stockholm syndrome in the interests of survival. Mqurice