H.R. 3166: Enemy Expatriation Act
January 4th, 2012My guess is that, “supporting hostilities” will mean anything the maniac state makes up at its whim about your behavior, reading choices, purchases, etc.
Via: GovTrack:
112th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3166
To add engaging in or supporting hostilities against the United States to the list of acts for which United States nationals would lose their nationality.
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Heh. Each passing year brings more new reasons to be thankful I got ahead of the curve and renounced mine.
Johnny Depp and R. Crumb both took off for France a long time ago, for their own individual personal reasons i’m sure whether economic, cultural or political (or all that altogether and/or the sake of their children) -and i always wondered if either did the dual citizenship thing or what…
and then i wonder: why France??
i am half French, so it’s inescapable for me to wonder -and to really despise the Americanization of the world. Le ‘Big Mac’ indeed; -Brazil saw it’s last McDonalds in 2002, and my spanish is far better than my nonexistent french. where is it is it best to be in this world?? and is that even the question?
no wonder Johnny owns an island.
Just posted this to the wrong thread, when it was meant for this one, so here it is again with some minor editing…
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Depp and his ilk (see John Malkovich) have the scratch and connections to come and go pretty much as they please. Normal folk not so much.
I’ve maintained my US Passport up ’til now, but I first floated the “renunciation” idea back in 2001 with a friend in the German media. The idea became less attractive as we contemplated the potential media circus HE wanted to generate.
This was about a year before we actually relocated to as rural a patch of land as you can effectively find in the densely-populated environment that is western Europe.
We’ve only been back to the states once since the move, for an extended reunion weekend with a particular band and the fans & friends revolving around them. The green-card holding foreign national wife, who spent 20 years stateside before we moved out, was detained for nearly four hours by TSA for exactly nothing, hosing our arrival itinerary completely.
Not exactly an incentive to move back.
She occasionally talks of pulling chocks here and going back, largely because parts of her family haven’t been nearly as thankful for our efforts on the old family homestead as she expected them to be, going out of their way to undermine us.
I just don’t see a move *back* to the USSA happening in this lifetime.
By the time we’re at a realistic decision point(when her 86-year-old mother shuffles the coil), I fully expect the FEMA camps to be filling up stateside and crossing the borders inbound to be problematic at best. No thank you.
I never thought I’d say this in my life, being an adventurous spirit basically from birth, I think I’m actually glad to be “stuck” right where we are. So long as Fortress Europe doesn’t spiral down the same socio-political hole.
Precisely because the beating heart of blue-blood fascism maintains private enclaves in the dark forests and valleys surrounding us on all sides, I suspect the territory we call home will NOT be razed for a third time in a century. I suspect they’re going to let America burn this time.
And like that famous Roman statesman with his violin, I’ll just keep on playing my songs as the place burns right down to the ground. Which is the floor we live on. Ash is a necessary winter addition to a fallowing organic garden around these parts, along with bone meal and lime chalk.
@Miraculix:
jeeez… that’s a hell of a perspective.
thanks for the long & wide view.
best to you and yours.
re: depp et al, o yes certainly they’ve scratch enough alright. the average person may not be able to come and go as they please willy-nilly across the earth, but if one seriously wants to get some place, there’s other resources to draw from -like imagination and hard work, tenacity and determination etc. -patti smith once wrote about how most people don’t realize their own seven league boots and that actually going to france isn’t so impossible. i found that to be almost *too* true, like scarily so. regardless, my own mate likewise is a consideration for me personally also, being uninclined to leave her hometown much less her home country as she is, so it’s moot…
when it comes to leaving the USA, i say it left us first. seriously, we need to rename this place, rather than continue suffer the insult to it’s past possibility which should honored to whatever degree was earned. we’ve crossed a line, i believe (and as you may agree), of no return to some and probably large degree… & somehow, yes, the initials should USSA. heh.
We have become exactly what we (supposedly) fought against in WWII. Zeig heil!
@Larry:
‘supposedly’ was well added.
http://www.hermes-press.com/germany1930.htm
zeig heil…
@miraculix
Not sure if this is the correct thread to post to but thanks for all of your postings of late. I opted out of the “millimeter scan” at the Tampa airport and went through about a 15 minute or so stressful wait. My identity papers, my wallet, my shoes,etc on the “ramp” waiting for the TSA agent to feel me up which was not bad at all.
Feeling so good when the whole thing was over, and not having passed through any detector I end up wondering what the fluck does even the metal detector do to a person?
Sorry that coming back to the US was not a good thing.
I don’t know how much control we have over our choices of where to be or what to do in life or if we here on earth are living out what we decided to do before our birth. Don’t know.
Sounds like you have a good hangout so don’t worry. All will be revealed in time.
Blessings to you, your wife and your cranky ole in laws.