Re: Dropping out of the USA

2001-07-11 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 11:55:01PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote: > Bell's case is not an acceptable example for a variety of reasons. Wow. Jim Choate agrees with me, or I agree with him, or something like that. -Declan

Re: Dropping out of the USA

2001-07-11 Thread Anonymous
Tim May wrote: >At 2:37 AM +0200 7/11/01, Anonymous wrote: >>Tim May wrote: >>> I will say that there is no country out there that seems to be >>> beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement, pace the points we discuss >>> so often about drug warriors, freezing of accounts, extradition, >>> etc.

Re: Dropping out of the USA

2001-07-11 Thread Tim May
At 2:37 AM +0200 7/11/01, Anonymous wrote: >Tim May wrote: >> I will say that there is no country out there that seems to be >> beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement, pace the points we discuss >> so often about drug warriors, freezing of accounts, extradition, >> etc. Even Yugoslavia has

Re: Dropping out of the USA

2001-07-11 Thread Harmon Seaver
How about Costa Rica? I met some people from there who said the government there was very cool, no problems. OTOH, anyplace you go that you're a foreigner, you always stand out. But Costa Rica has always attracted me, both politically and geographically, because the upland weather is qui

Re: Dropping out of the USA

2001-07-10 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:50:46PM -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote: > descendants. Basically, you're allowed to piss them off a > little, and they still need some kind of excuse to arrest > you. But once you've pissed them off, any excuse will do, > even (as Bell's case teaches us) the legal exe

Re: Dropping out of the USA

2001-07-10 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 06:33 PM 7/10/01 -0700, Tim May wrote: >These little Carribean potentates are far, far, far worse than what we >face in the U.S. The sad truth is that if you're a gun owner and like to have variety in what you collect, no "western democracy" is going to be a better fit than the U.S. Even so

Re: Dropping out of the USA

2001-07-10 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Jim Choate wrote: >Seems to me the only answer is to keep moving, don't settle in any one >country (or store your possessions in any one jurisdiction) for a lengthy >stay. A couple of years max. Um, no. A couple of years would have been fine a decade ago, but these days

Re: Dropping out of the USA

2001-07-10 Thread Tim May
At 7:59 PM -0400 7/10/01, Adam Back wrote: >I was thinking online obscurity (nyms, pseudonymous web pages etc) coupled >with a low tax jurisdiction like Anguilla wouldn't be one interesting >combination. > >But there are plenty of disadvantages too -- limited amenities - shops, >computer parts, th

Re: Dropping out of the USA

2001-07-10 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Adam Back wrote: > I was thinking online obscurity (nyms, pseudonymous web pages etc) coupled > with a low tax jurisdiction like Anguilla wouldn't be one interesting > combination. > > But there are plenty of disadvantages too -- limited amenities - shops, > computer parts,

Re: Dropping out of the USA

2001-07-10 Thread Anonymous
Tim May wrote: > I will say that there is no country out there that seems to be > beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement, pace the points we discuss > so often about drug warriors, freezing of accounts, extradition, > etc. Even Yugoslavia has just bowed to U.S. financing pressures > (sending Mi

Re: Dropping out of the USA

2001-07-10 Thread Adam Back
I was thinking online obscurity (nyms, pseudonymous web pages etc) coupled with a low tax jurisdiction like Anguilla wouldn't be one interesting combination. But there are plenty of disadvantages too -- limited amenities - shops, computer parts, the advantages being within reasonable travelling d

Re: Dropping out of the USA

2001-07-10 Thread Tim May
At 7:19 PM +0100 7/6/01, Ken Brown wrote: >"A. Melon" wrote: ... >> 'political crimes', it seems the best options are to simply leave the >> country altogether or forget about the personal freedoms granted by the >> constitution. > >> So my question is: where to go? > >> How does one >> 'dr

Re: Dropping out of the USA

2001-07-06 Thread ming
Belize? Unless you're looking for somewhere that doesn't have extradition laws with the US? Sri Lanka, Arthur C. Clarke is there... Not sure if they extradite.. Of course they have terrorists. ming [This is a sig file] On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Ken Brown wrote: > "A. Melon" wrote: > > > > Well, th