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Subject: Re: Re: Meta-government
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Date: Sat, 16-Mar-85 17:56:38 EST
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> You seem to forget, or ignore, that the emmigration is allowed only if
> the receiving sub-meta-country accepts the criminal.  If a country wants
> to accept a mass-murder, that is up to the country to decide...personally
> I don't see why any country would do such a thing.

I can think of some very good reasons why some countries might want to
accept mass murderers -- countries like Libya and Syria that make a
business of international terrorism would probably love to get their
hands on notorious and skillful criminals so that they can send them
right back to their origonal countries to cause trouble. Even if they
were caught again, what could we do but send them right back to their
sponsor countries, so that they could get re-equipped and shipped back
again?

If this became the case, I think we would see a lot of "accidental"
killings of criminals by police agencies, to prevent them from gaining
asylum in countries which had more friendly attitudes towards
terrorists.  Probably then the thing to do would be to have the
international police force investigate such occurrences, but for this
to be effective such a police force would have to become much too large
to be considered just a "meta-governent". In fact, I doubt that any
such meta-government could be effective at all unless it had the degree
of control over its member nations as the federal government has over
the states, for instance.

	Wayne