price of statelessness

[Jim Johnson]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44246150/ns/world_news/#.TlTtD13mtlc

"Stateless people are vulnerable to exploitation, including slavery and prostitution, and risk arbitrary detention."; Things are like that when you do have a state.

There is also a list, below the article, of Stateless groups around the world.

[Russell Kanning]

I would think they risk arbitrary detention .... be the US empire

[Jim Johnson]

It doesn't matter where you are from, everybody runs that risk; and having a "State" won't help.

[Russell Kanning]

the US government won't let be stateless .... I think I am getting all the bad and none of the good in this one sided relationship

[CurtHowland]

Seriously, when ever the subject comes up, I wonder just what benefit the state provides.

All the "crimes" still exist, they're merely driven underground. Self defense and security are still my problem, since the state is under no obligation to provide it.

There is no single service that is provided by every government, which means that there is no service that only government can provide.

So why have one?

[Russell Kanning]

I would say the government serves only those that control it