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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
owner-lbo-talk@lists.panix.com [mailto:owner-lbo-talk@lists.panix.com] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>eric dorkin<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:17
AM<BR><B>To:</B> lbo-talk@lists.panix.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Time to flee
the US?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<P>So...let's imagine a US where there are no alternative voices to challenge
the Rumsfelds of the world...where would one be safe? A destabilized
mid-east and a whacked-out Korean peninsula make the entire world a very
dangerous place. I will stay here and seek to mollify the nation's
imperialist impulses
<P> <B><I>Carl Remick <carlremick@hotmail.com></I></B> wrote:
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">[From
Salon]<BR><BR>This is not America<BR><BR>In increments, we have become a
different nation. Will I have to flee my <BR>country as my ancestors did
theirs?<BR><BR>By Gregory Dicum<BR><BR>March 25, 2003 | Pranas Ancevicius,
my maternal grandfather, was <BR>intercepted by the German navy while trying
to escape the Baltics for Sweden <BR>in 1944. An anti-Stalinist
intellectual, Pranas had sensed the impending <BR>return of the Red Army to
his native Lithuania. Caught between two loathsome <BR>regimes, he made his
way to Nazi Berlin, where he hid with his family under <BR>cover of the
right combination of documents.<BR><BR>In British Malaya, Lourdes
Gnanadicassamy, my other grandfather, had divined <BR>the intentions of the
Japanese Imperial Army in 1940. He packed the family <BR>off to India 18
months before his country descended into four years of <BR>Japanese
occupation.<BR><BR>Enough o f my ancestors have had to make the fateful
decision to flee their <BR>homes -- and have done so at just the right
moment -- that I have often <BR>wondered if I have inherited their uncanny
sense of timing. ...<BR><BR>Of course, I know that I'm not the primary
target of these new [national <BR>security] regulations. I'm not the one
they're looking for. But then again, <BR>neither are a lot of other people
who have suffered as a result of them -- <BR>or as a result of the paranoia
that they seem to instill in ordinary <BR>citizens. ...<BR><BR>In increments
we have become a different nation. Each step ruffles our <BR>feathers just a
bit, but the ruckus dies down quickly and we are on our way <BR>to the next.
Life goes on, and we find ourselves living in a different <BR>country
without ever having moved. ...<BR><BR>In a nation of immigrants, we all have
ancestors who decided it was time to <BR>go. Around the world, people make
the decision every day, packing a few <BR>belonging s onto a cart and
walking away from the action, as is happenin! g now <BR>in Kurdistan and
Baghdad. What happens when it's our turn? Much has changed <BR>already; how
much more will have to change before it becomes time for me to <BR>sell the
house? Sew gold coins into the hem of my jacket as I gather the <BR>loved
ones around me one last time? It's not here yet, but is the hour
<BR>approaching when, once again, we might decide to bid farewell to yet
another <BR>homeland? ...<BR><BR><HTTP: www.salon.com mwt feature 2003 03 25
no_return
/><BR><BR>Carl<BR><BR>_________________________________________________________________<BR>STOP
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