Originally posted by YouKnowTheyMurderedX+Oct 2 2003, 06:16 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (YouKnowTheyMurderedX @ Oct 2 2003, 06:16 PM)
[email protected] 2 2003, 10:49 AM
Are there any socialist countries that will allow Americans to immigrate?
North Korea won't because of the international crap going on.
What about the others still left like Cuba?
Why don't you stay in the U.S. and fight the real battle rather than fleeing to Cuba. Oh, and you have more chance of getting into the Oval office dressed as Osama Bin Laden than you do of getting into North Korea. [/b]
I understand what you are saying. However, so many people diss socialist countries and the only way for me to speak authoritatively on the subject is to have lived in one or two. If it is as sorry as the western press makes it out to be, perhaps socialism should be dropped, pending the possibility that their poverty may be outside their control (artifically created via blockade, ex. Cuba). If those countries have decent living standards and I can move around freely, I can come back home to the states and say firsthand our leaders are liars (which I personally believe).
It is very sad about North Korea. Yet I understand why they have such a closed society. I doubt that they fear competition from the west through exchange of ideas;they fear CIA undercover work like we have read about in Latin America and Italy. Really, who could blame them?