Hey BIK, can you claim refugee status in Iceland?
Why not build yourself a boat & sail to new country & claim refugee status?
Would that work??? I've always wondered..
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11-07-2007, 10:00 PM #1
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11-09-2007, 06:05 PM #2
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I don't know. Claiming refugee status is one thing, getting it is another. Particularly if one happens to be a US military officer who is wanted for desertion. There is no statute of limitations on desertion.
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11-09-2007, 07:02 PM #3
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I think Canada has accepted US deserters in the past.
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11-09-2007, 10:06 PM #4
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Yeah, that's more what I had in mind--then BC can throw the next NW America TE party. Although Iceland's geology is really fabulous...my dad was stationed there as a radio operator in WWII. Either way will work. I'm just glad we have this settled.
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11-10-2007, 07:47 AM #5
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I'm not sure if Canada is extraditing deserters or not. A couple of years ago, there was a kid who'd headed for Canada after deserting. Don't remember if he returned of his own accord or was returned by Canadian Authorities.
However, it would also mean I could never return to the US for any reason other than turning myself in. Once I did that, I would be convicted of a federal offense which means I'd never be able to vote, hold office, own a weapon or get a professional license.
Also, I would spend the rest of my life dealing with the fact that I was too chickensh** to honor my commitment to the US Government and my soldiers. My opinions on our reason for being wherever we end up are irrelevant. I still have a duty to my soldiers to bring as many of them as I can home alive.re-cur-sion ri'-ker-shen n: see recursion
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11-10-2007, 08:00 AM #6
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Hey. We know. This was just meant as a joke, you know. Never meant to be taken seriously, not intended as any kind of political statement. I am very sorry if it appeared otherwise. I would never make such a suggestion seriously, here or anywhere else.
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"My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved;I have been given much and I have given something in return...Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and an adventure." O. Sacks
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11-10-2007, 08:26 AM #7
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None taken. One of those conversations that went one way, then the other.
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