A brief discusion on emigration [View All]

[Nicholas_J]

After the results of this election became known worldwide, throught the industrialized world, the media asked the question how so many Americans can be so dumb?"

They all ask, and give their sympathy to those of us who were not so dumb, and even bring up the topic of Americans who claimed that they would emigrate to Canada, or whereever if Bush was elected. On right wing radio programs. those who made such statemetns are being mocked as really not meaning it, all talk and no action.

Yet the one thing that all of these natrions have not don is to offer asylum to those of us who have become political prisoners in a nations which is rpidly becoming a right wing dictatorship, where the election has once been certainly stolen., and in all likelyhood, has been stolen a second time, using more devious means. No one has opened their doors to escape from a nation in which democracy is obviously dying and soon to be dead.

It would seem that some of our own memberson DU, who have access to the media and have been published could well bring up this question.

Along with another questions. MOst of the Europeans who have been critical of the Bush administration, and the results of this election and the fact that they beleive that the election of the President of the United Staes is of as great importance to them as it is to us have not questioned the fact that they, through their taxes, have financed the deficit that George Bush has run up by the fact that their own governments invest heavily in U.S. Treasury instrument, as well as directly lending money to the U.S. Government. Surely if they oppose the policies ofthe United States under the Bush Administration, they would have little trouble demanding that their leaders follow a policy of not investing in a nation ewhose policies they so vigorously oppose. European citizens seem to have afar greater influence on the poliies of their own government tyhan americans do. In fact, it would not be very difficult for the nations of the E.U. to make it very difficult for ther current administration to make wa or do much else by pulling investment from this government.

In fact, those of us who opposed this government should do what ew can to ask the citizens of other nations to help us in working towards policies that would be in their interests as well as our own.

I hope any of you publishe DU'ers take me up on this suggestion. It could do much to effect the results in the mid term elections.