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Re: We'll take in your poor, your homeless, your oppressed...
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Thu, 8 Jul 2004 21:13:08 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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?

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 use...

Dave!



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  Re: We'll take in your poor, your homeless, your oppressed...
 
(...) 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? (20 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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