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Subject:	Re: We'll take in your poor, your homeless, your oppressed...
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Thu, 8 Jul 2004 21:09:21 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote: > Well, maybe this is a better hypothetical: What if the dominant nation > (accepting, though, that the minarchist idea kind of trumps this) simply buys > all territory surrounding the smaller nation and then charges the smaller nation > a billion dollars per person to cross the surrounding territory, airspace, or > what-have-you? The dominant nation is no longer the invader, but it still > wields crippling power over the subjugated state. Honestly, I don't know the answer to that one off hand. What do you suggest? Armored VTOL aircraft or spaceships? Or maybe just never leaving?

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		Re: We'll take in your poor, your homeless, your oppressed...
(...) Not sure--maybe they could go at night, when no one's watching. Your other post suggesting "information" seems a good compromise, unless the surrounding nation can somehow claim the airwaves as its own property and thereby charge for their (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: We'll take in your poor, your homeless, your oppressed...
(...) Sounds a bit like Cuba. ;) Scott A (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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		Re: We'll take in your poor, your homeless, your oppressed...
(...) Well, maybe this is a better hypothetical: What if the dominant nation (accepting, though, that the minarchist idea kind of trumps this) simply buys all territory surrounding the smaller nation and then charges the smaller nation a billion (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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