On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 15:18 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Am 2006-04-11 16:40:59, schrieb Ron Johnson: > > > >>.us = 300,000,000 > > > > > > Not right, because the there are 150,000,000 illegal mexicans in the > > USA and 50,000,000 illegal prisoners in US-Teritory like Guantanamo. > > Guantanamo is not a territory. It is a base which is leased from > Cuba. So the Federal Government can lease land from Cuba, but I > can't buy a cigar from there.
Yes, they can, since the land was leased way before the Revolution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_Naval_Base The United States controls the land on both sides of the southern part of Guantánamo Bay (Bahía de Guantánamo in Spanish) under a lease set up in the wake of the 1898 Spanish-American War. The Cuban government denounces the lease on grounds that article 52 of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties voids treaties procured by force or its threatened use. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "This is the optimal setup for a geek. Your wife thinks you are with your girlfriend, your girlfriend thinks, you have to look for your wife, and you have time to do something with your computer." http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=98180&cid=8396791
