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In article <1993Jan7.230612.12564@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
>If this is accurate, then it raises some very troubling issues,
>since foreigners who violate such laws on their way out may be
>beyond the reach of the law,
	Oh NO! Beyond the reach of US laws?!  How horrible.  I thought
	nothing and nobody was beyond the reach of US laws! 
	Don't worry yourself David, the US government has shown quite
	emphatically that no one is beyond the reach of its laws,
	even people whose alleged crimes were committed on foreign
	soil.  (e.g. Humberto Alvarez Machain and Manual Noriega)


>Ah, the challenges of the information age!
	Some of us see the "challenges" as opportunities for the 
	assertion of lost freedoms.

>In passing, a word to those who may not fully understand the U.S.
>system.
	I hope you are paying special attention Vesselin ;-) you are about 
	to get a very special and important lesson in The Planetary
	Law as decided by the democratically elected representatives
	of the OnlySuperPower(TM). ;-)  

	
>The export laws aren't the result of some anti-democratic
>Administration, but the result of laws passed by a democratically
>elected Congress, after extensive public hearings and testimony.
	If the World's OnlySuperPower (TM), democratically elected by the 
	citizens of the self same superpower want to abrogate the 
	sovereignty of any of the "lesser" states by extending
	its DemocraticallyLegislatedLaws (TM) across its borders it is not 
	only possible but democratic (by definition!) and therefore 
	an integral part of Truth-Justice-And-The-American-Way (TM).
	Only a foreigner would think otherwise. ;-)

>Even the administration of the laws isn't monolithic. Many years ago
>(in 1970-72) I worked for the U.S. Secretary of Commerce as his Deputy
>Director of the Office of Policy Development, as part of a program
>where private sector executives spent a year in the Government and
>vice versa, called the Presidential Executive Interchange Program.
	I guess Nixon had more flaws than I realized. ;-)

>Let's pursue this discussion in a collegial, not an adversarial way.
	Physician heal thyself!


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