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From: tedrick@ernie.berkeley.edu (Tom Tedrick)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Slave labor built Siberian pipeline
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Date: Sun, 23-Mar-86 05:23:30 EST
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In article <642@mmm.UUCP> mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR) writes:
>In article <12366@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> tedrick@ernie.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Tom Tedrick) writes:
>>>   IN any case, thh whole point here is that while the Soviets may take things
>>>to greater extremes, I cannot think of anything that the Soviets do, to their
>>>own citizens, as well as to other nations, that we ourselves in the US do not
>>>do, to some extent or another.
>>
>>Uh, how about leaving the country. As far as I know I can walk
>>across the border without any interference.
>>
>>(The people on the other side might not let me in though :-)
>
>	It has indeed happened that the US Government has revoked a
>citizen's passport because they wanted to prevent that citizen from
>carrying out his planned activities outside the country.

Sorry to quibble about a small point, but the last few times
I have left the country, no US government officials have
checked my passport (maybe the airlines do, but that is
because they want to make sure they don't have to give you
a free return flight if the place you are going won't let
you in). It is only when I came back that it was checked.
My point wasn't about passports, it was about walking across
the border, which I have personally done a number of times.
I suppose you could find examples where they stopped people
from doing that though.