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   XPost: alt.california   
   From: rudy-canoza@excite.com   
      
   brainfart wrote:   
   > I subscribed to the Communist Party USA mailing list and the recent   
   > update decries the series of immigration raids across the country.   
   > The statement claims an inherent human right to migrate freely, and   
   > the CPUSA has teamed up with various religious groups to condemn   
   > the policy.   
   >   
   > So if communists believe in the right to freely migrate, how come   
   > communist countries shoot people trying to leave?   
      
   That was always one of the most distinguishing   
   characteristics of the USSR and its vassal states, of   
   communist China, and of North Korea still:  the guns   
   are always pointed *inward*, at the citizens of the   
   "workers' paradises".   
      
      
   > And since a   
   > major tenet of communism teaches that religion is a tool used by   
   > the evil bourgeois to control the masses, why is the CPUSA   
   > seeking the support of religious groups in its immigrant-rights   
   > crusade?   
      
   Extremist groups will always make alliances of   
   convenience in their never-ending quest to subvert   
   liberal democracies.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)