If you are planning on leaving America, PLEASE stay registered to vote!

[bluestateguy]

I used to be critical of those who said they would leave the US if Bush won (or stole another election), but I've had some time to reconsider now. I will stay for one more presidential election, but if another neo-con wins in 2008, I too may have to make plans to leave for awhile. For now, however, I will stay and fight for my country. But I have a request for those of you who have chosen to leave.

I can respect and understand someone's decision to leave America(but not agree with it), so long as he or she expends the minor effort necessary to cast an absentee Democratic ballot on election day every other year. I don't think that's asking much, and the neo-cons policy goals have consequences for the whole world, not just America. As long as one is eligible to vote in American elections, he or she owes it to the world to keep these people out of power.

[jesusq]

1. My wife and I are considering leaving the US

Unfortunately, we recently bought a house with next to nothing down, so we would probably lose money on the sale of our home. But we are getting our passports, doing our homework and we will travel to the places we are considering. I know a little French and Spanish, so the two countries on my short list are Canada and Venezuela. France has a very open policy. From what I understand, artists, teachers and writers can move right in to France and go to work.

I am looking for people with an interest in popular revolution to discuss ways to apply the political tactics of Che Guevara, Hugo Chavez and yes, our own founding fathers during the first American revolution, in peaceful ways. Ideally, I would like to setup face to face meet-ups for brainstorming, but I could set up a password protected discussion board on my website. If you have an interest in participating such a group, please contact me directly and include what town you are from, to see if there are persons concentrated in particular cities. I am from the democratic stronghold of Pittsburgh, PA. jesusq at pair dot com