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It's going to take more than voting

It's going to take more than voting

Posted Feb 9, 2011 9:29 UTC (Wed) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: It's going to take more than voting by kleptog
Parent article: Moglen on Freedom Box and making a free net

There is nothing preventing you from picking up your belongings and moving to some other country more to your liking.

Apart from the fact that most countries have immigration controls.


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It's going to take more than voting

Posted Feb 9, 2011 18:57 UTC (Wed) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106) [Link]

Not to mention that your belongings may include such items as land, a home, etc., which are kind of hard to pick up and take to another country.

Even so, it might be worthwhile *if* there was a place one could move to where your natural private property rights would actually be respected. Unfortunately, governments (even ones with a history of "freedom") have an even worse track-record regarding rights outside their borders than they have inside. Basically, if moving outside the country would solve the problem you probably wouldn't have to move in the first place, as your liberty would already be assured right where you are.

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