Alan Olsen wrote:
>
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Lizard wrote:
>
> > Declan McCullagh wrote:
> > >
> > >The U.S. can't
> > > annex the world by declaring its territorial waters to be 10,000 miles.
> > >
> >
> > We could if we were the only one with nukes. :) Pax Americana!
>
> But the US would never do that. If we extended the territory, those
> people would be US citizens. We would no longer be able to treat them as
> second and third class citizens. We need the other countries to be
> seperate but unequal for cheap labor and scapegoats when needed.
Heh. It seems to me that even a cursory study of US History will show
the nation, both the government and the citizenry-at-large, has had
little if any trouble in finding subsets of the populace to treat as
cheap labor and/or scapegoats.
What, me cynical?
