>From: JC Helary <helary at eskimo.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: Becoming stateless
>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 22:32:13 -0800 (PST)
>
>On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 JKSCHW at aol.com wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 00-03-24 23:03:12 EST, you write:
> >
> > << I'm no specialist in international law, but this can't be a good
>idea.
> > Don't legal rights derive from citizenship? >>
> >
> > Whether it is a good idea or not, not all legal rights derive from
> > citizenship. It depends on the particular law of the country of course.
>In
>
>Plus Stateless people are like refugees, they are protected by
>international conventions and if what I read is applied it means they
>enjoy more rights than 'normal' foreigners.
>
>But law was not my concern in the first place. I was considering the fact
>that the State forces you in or out of the system (depending on
>citizenship law) pretty much, but with more implications in most cases,
>like religions used to.
>
>Being freed from religion (or from the impossibility to choose a religion)
>seems to me a first step that's logically (???) followed by being freed
>from the state and the impossibility to choose between being a citizen/not
>being a citizen.
>
>After all, capital and goods cross borders freely, only 'citizens' are
>alienated in such a powerful way.
>
>Is there anybody who wrote about statelessness ?
>
>JC Helary
>
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