Well, good luck. When we escaped the Soviet Union in the 1970's, we understood we would never see or speak to our family again. It's hard, but living in a tyranny is unbearable. I'm afraid the soft tyranny in the United States will turn into a hard tyranny shortly. It's all pointing in that direction. It is amazing to me that the United States - this bastion of freedom - would have rules of immigration similar to that of the Soviet Union. A massive exit tax, the right to refuse to allow you to renounce (political blacklisting if you request even if it's not granted) and banishment after renouncement. It wasn't always so. The rules didn't start getting really Draconian until the 1990's. Before then, you were a citizen because you considered it the best and most free country on earth, not because you were a slave of the state.
I'm amazed at how few Americans appear to grasp this.. and fail to recognize the role Obama appears to be playing... Obamacare is a soft tyranny play, not really about medical treatment. Obama's direction to "give anybody what they want" just to get SOMETHING PASSED NOW... is the "camel's nose under the tent"... they'll get the rest of the camel inside once they get this.. I hope there are enough Patriots and supporters of the Constitution in the Senate to prevent it from passing...
Only if they're fairly weak. If they don't have the bullying power of an 800 pound gorilla, the only way they can lure their own back is by providing incentives - lower tax rates, tax amnesty, etc. Like the Soviet Union, the U.S. has learned that it's large and powerful enough to bully its citizens. It's not like the founding fathers didn't try to prevent this by limiting the power of government, but the politicians and the Supreme court shredded the constitution a long time ago.
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My ancestors also came from that region, Prussia and Ukraine to be exact, so we have history in dealing with, and in recognizing, socialism and all it entails. With friends emigrating from Russia in the 90s, we feel qualified to judge how socialism takes over a nation and the signs that make it plain. Simply, no nation has ever implemented such socialist measures, and then turned back to freedom, without civil war. Bloody civil war. Bumma has three more years with which to sew his seeds of destruction for the USA, but socialism in the states did not begin with him, much less the devaluation of the US dollar. Those seeds go back to 1913. It remains to be seen if history will be repeated in this land. Since the younger generations have not been taught to heed lessons of generations past, I see no reason why we would turn back to freedom, and I sincerely, but with regret, doubt that Americans today have the guts to do what the American South did 150 years ago, when they rejected the unsolicited tyranny, control and taxation of the Feds, with their lives. We are not opposed to a move to Israel, as we have family there, as well. It's too crowded and hot for my taste, but freedom is the #1 consideration.
By all means, confiscate more land from the Palestinians and start your 'free' capitalism there. I can see from your writings that it is freedom for you and slavery for others that you seek.
If you can get a second passport from another country, always register your foreign employment, income and assets using the other passport while leaving aboard. That is what I would do. I am trying to get another passpost that is not too hard to get. Any suggestions?