[extropy-chat] Fleeing Bush's America?!?

[Zero Powers]

Mike

I'm curious.  What was it exactly that you found to be so intolerable
about living in the U.S. during Clinton's presidency that made you
consider emmigration?

Zero


On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 08:58:10 -0800 (PST), Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- Zero Powers <zero.powers at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > OK, I was obviously disappointed by the election results, and I admit
> > I may have made a fleeting and half-hearted remark or two along the
> > way (something about loving my country a little bit less, as I
> > recall).  But according to this story on NPR this morning there are
> > some Americans who are actually thinking of emmigrating!
> >
> > Yeah, Europe is nice and New Zealand is beautiful.  I've never been
> > down under, but I hear it has its draws too.  But actually
> > emmigrating
> > from the U.S. just because a dolt is in power?  That seems to be
> > taking things a little too far.
> >
> > http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=4145998
> 
> Earlier this year, I heard a story about a family that moved from NH to
> Vermont because of the Free State Project. They didn't want to live in
> a Free State.
> 
> So it does happen. In 2001, before I met Jason Sorens online, I was
> seriously considering whether to move to New Zealand or Alaska, and
> stocking up on equipment I'd need for homesteading in the wilderness.
> Living under Clinton had become that intolerable.
> 
> I am entirely supportive of the idea that people should move to places
> where they can live in the political/cultural/economic system they are
> most amenable to. That is your natural right of expatriation, your
> right to travel, at work.
> 
> =====
> Mike Lorrey
> Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
> "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
> It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
>                                       -William Pitt (1759-1806)
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