From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Sun Aug 12 2001 - 13:04:54 MDT
Greg Burch wrote:se it seems very un-extropian:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tiberius Gracchus" <cryofan@mylinuxisp.com>
>
> > Ultimately, we need to take back control of our lands and our
> > repective First World govt's. The citizenry rightfully own and control
> > these lands. In the end, it will only get worse unless we have a
> > bunch of leaders, and take back control of our govts. I suggest
> > technology as a means of control. Instrumentation and monitoring is
> > what we need. Cameras, etc.... Also, massive constitutional amendments
> > in the USA, and similar measures in Europe.]
>
> It seems to me that more free immigration, rather than more restrictions on
> the movement of people, is consistent with the Extropian Principles.
> Extropians see people as a positive thing, and are intent on "growing the
> pie" of over-all wealth, rather than trying to make state-enforced rules
> that exclude participation in it.
I'd differentiate between restricted immigration, free immigration and
qualified immigration. I want people to immigrate who are going to take
citizenship seriously, and are memetically 'bought in' to the constructs
of a high trust society with a limited republican government. I get
entirely sick of the hue and cry for the mobocracy that is touted by so
many immigrants as 'better' than the system we have now, and don't want
any immigrants who will keep trying to turn this country into the same
sort of craphole they escaped from. I don't care what country they come
from and what ethnic, racial, or religous group they are members of. If
they buy in, they are welcome. If they don't, they can stay where they
are at.
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