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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (91437)	6/12/2012 4:17:13 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217842

Many nations have back doors towards citizenship - for people with special skills, or with a lot of money. That's fine and "normal", IMO. Dostoevsky, in "The Possessed", has a scene which is funny, and yet sad. A group of revolutionaries are having a meeting, discussing how to change the world... to make it better, of course. One fellow presents his new book, an extensive deep study which it took him years to complete. "I am surprised by the results of my study" - he says - "I started out with the idea of maximal liberty, but ended up with absolute despotism". LOL, IMO. Well, at least the man was capable of following through the logic of his assumptions. Not many can do that. Let's say a young person makes a youthful mistake and sells his citizenship, and spends the money on... traveling the world, or whatever. A point comes when he wants to return home. The problem he will encounter is that he cannot come back - unless his family buys him another citizenship. The fellow, of course, will come back anyway, and his family will hide him - until the neighbors will report them, and the guy will get thrown out of the country. Remember that in the USA there are millions of illegals, and for a variety of reasons they do remain in the country. Just imagine how powerful must be the police apparatus in order to find - and throw out - potentially many more millions. This may add up to becoming a pretty brutal police state. I'm not trying to dismiss the very idea of tradeable citizenship, but I think you will agree that it needs to be well thought through.