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To: TobagoJack who wrote (98326)	1/27/2013 5:05:08 AM
From: elmatador	5 Recommendations Respond to of 217840

Kenya only asks for visa on arrival and Chinese tourists pour in. Experiment came to visit me and we went Safari. Kenya only asks for visas on arrival and the Chinese are pouring in. Even the operator is Chinese catering fr the increasing higher tourist crows. As it is easier to get visas, the Chinese working here spend the money here. They bring families in, buy cars and rent properties. Much better than Angola whose Chinese do not spend their money there since they have stupid visa rules. Safari in Masai Mara

To: TobagoJack who wrote (98326)	1/28/2013 10:29:15 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Respond to of 217840

Politicians and people in general are loathe to give up their chattels without a fight. When the serfs and slaves are revolting, the response is normally revoltingly vicious. In all societies, the individual is considered a chattel of the state rather than the reverse. That's how chimpanzees operate and those people are more like chimps than they are like actual enlightened people. <one particular question asked of the specific 16-years young lady forcibly away from parental / adult / legal supervision was precisely, "are you giving up american citizenship because of taxes?" that protocol, mq, is diabolical but minus the waterboarding, is certainly not an issue of pressure from parents the mother of the girl is an american of the 1% in own stance, father a britisher also of 1% by own work, both together tallying to say mid 9-digits, and the girl was born in america but had lived outside of usa just about all her life except the 1st year, as had the parents for the past 30 years minus 1 year the parents figured out that the daughter was wrongly put to serfdom of the empire> Each human work unit in normal countries is like a cow to be milked and sheep to be fleeced, and later to be eaten when the economic imperatives align. That's good to have a British passport but not so much the Made in China variety: <now the girl is under the sovereign protection of the son of heaven, w/i embrace of one country two systems, sporting two valuable pieces of paper, one british passport and another hong kong special administrative region passport > With the British passport she should be able to escape from China in a timely manner, though their interview technique for departing people who do not have approval is a bullet in the back as they flee over the hills from Tibet. Like East Germany shooting people climbing the Berlin Wall. Some could even swim for freedom to Hong Kong in the good old days of British common law in freedom Hong Kong if not caught and dragged back. "Protection" Made in China does not look like freedom and protection. It looks like the Mafia's protection racket. Fortunately, the world is still made up of a couple of hundred more or less separate countries, though many are beholden, bound and betrothed to one or other of mightier powers, so one or other of them might offer improved freedoms. One day one of them might even flip the magnetic field of Earth's political polarity from the state owning the individual to the individual owning the state. It will be a sight to behold. The original American prescription was intended to be sort of like that, to some extent anyway, compared with the atavistic totalitarian alpha male conquering territorial genocidal dominance hierarchies of the day. Viewed from the Amerindian perspective and the African slave experience, it was not quite as glorious as rumour has it, but it was pretty good for those approved as part of the deal. Somehow, Great Britain and King George II were rank amateurs compared with what has replaced them. Celebrating 4 July Independence Day should be seen as richly ironical these days. Presumably, said 16 year old could apply for USA citizenship at some stage in future and having been a good one previously, would perhaps find the application process simplr enough if required. Having two passports, or more, is a good idea. Refusing to renew a passport is good for remote control of serfs who have fled. If Greece was to come up with a Tradable Citizenship with genuine democracy and freedom, they could lead the world again. There is no sign of it at present, but out of such messes, grander designs can arise. They cannot from Made in China "stability" or Made in USA 'peace in our time". Tradable Citizenship rulz ok. Mqurice