<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Feb 25, 2019, at 11:30 AM, <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="WordSection1"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan TheBookMan<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] socialism<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">On Feb 25, 2019, at 10:04 AM, John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><div><div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span class="gmaildefault"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>>…</span></i></span><i>Desperate caravans are struggling to get from socialist countries into a capitalist country. </i><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">>…Spike, if you’re talking about the caravans from Central America, they’re not fleeing socialism as such, but violence and repression. For instance, post-election violence in Honduras led to people fleeing there... And guess what major world power meddled in Honduran politics? (Not that that’s “irregular”: US meddling in Latin America is the norm, sadly.) Dan<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">If so, why do they not wish to stay in Mexico?</p></div></div></blockquote><br><style><!--
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--></style><div>Haven’t you been following the news? The Mexican government won’t allow them to stay. In fact, the Mexican government has tried to stop them from entering Mexico and has a cumbersome process for refugee status — most likely to prevent any refugees from entering and staying in Mexico.</div><div><br></div><div>My guess is if the Mexican would allow them to stay, many if not all would stay there — predicated that they aren’t persecuted in Mexico.</div><div><br></div><div>And what’s wrong with them coming to the US?</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst">http://author.to/DanUst</a></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>