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To: D. Long who wrote (2249)	4/6/1999 9:21:00 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

<<Its also terribly curious why people living in "people's paradises" are always risking their lives to escape to capitalist countries.>> The last figures I saw for US citizens giving up their US citizenship was north of 250,000 per year. the exodus is so bad that Bill Clinton issued an "executive order" to keep anyone from leaving the US without paying a huge exit tax in order to discourage them from leaving.

To: D. Long who wrote (2249)	4/6/1999 10:44:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 17770

Yes. And isn't it interesting that many of the Bosnian refugees are quite happy to stay in the countries they were temporarily relocated in and are refusing to go home. Which is probabably why Germany is not willing to take Kosovo refugees, and why we are going to shunt them off to Cuba where they legally can't apply for permanent resident status. We are demanding that ALL the refugees be returned home. But has anybody ASKED the refugees themselves how many of them WANT to go back to Kosovo???????

To: D. Long who wrote (2249)	4/7/1999 12:49:00 AM
From: RavenCrazy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

D. Long - You made a reference to my post which was quite misleading, and I don't like to be misrepresented. You wrote: >>Its a curious thing that all "people's paradises" have ended up having to have armed men and barbed wire to keep people in. Its also terribly curious why people living in "people's paradises" are always risking their lives to escape to capitalist countries. Some people just want to be exploited, I suppose.<< Someone without the time to go back and read all the posts would probably be misled. My reference to a "people's paradise" was a reference to someone else's post a day or two ago where he/she stated that without Castro, Cuba would be a people's paradise. I commented that no one (not even some of the unquestionable authorities amongst us) has any way of knowing, 40 years later, what Cuba would be like had they not overthrown Batista. I am not in any way a great admirer of Castro, but I do have to say that Cuba was NOT a people's paradise under Batista, which the poster - in a roundabout way - implied. "Some people just want to be exploited, I suppose." ???? Perhaps, Mr. Long, you are not too old for remedial reading? I am making no political point, just trying for accuracy.