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October 1, 2006 at 06:14:41
How to Get Out of the U. S. in 60 Days (with more than the clothes on your back) by Ezekiel |
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How much difference can 60 days make? Here's what happened in Germany in the first 60 days after Adolph Hitler, head of a minority party, was appointed Chancellor of Germany. A Tyrant's 60-Day Plan Privately, Hitler calls the flames a "beacon from heaven." Publicly, he blames leftists: "The German people have been soft too long. Every Communist official must be shot. All Communist deputies must be hanged this very night. All friends of the Communists must be locked up. And that goes for the Social Democrats and the Reichsbanner as well!" Articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124 and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. It is therefore permissible to restrict the rights of personal freedom [habeas corpus], freedom of opinion, including the freedom of the press, the freedom to organize and assemble, the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications, and warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed. The measure requires a 2/3 majority, and few expect it to pass since the Nazis have fewer than half the deputies. While brown shirts surround the building and chant, Full powers - or else! We want the bill - or fire and murder!," Social Democrats bravely refuse to give in to the intimidation, but they are too few. The bill passes 441 to 84 with essential help from moderate, non-Nazi deputies. The Third Reich is firmly in control. Create a little checklist for yourself. Find how many items in this "First 60 Days" of the Nazi regime have already been accomplished by the Bush administration. Then ask youself if there isn't a PNAC (Part 2) plan ready to implement the rest. Shouldn't you have your own "60-Day Plan" for how to rescue your family and yourself from the onrushing madness? Your 60-Day Plan We're going to make this as simple and straightforward as possible. There are three aspects to leaving the country: You're going to need to proceed along all three fronts at once, so we'll use the color-coding listed above to help you keep things in their proper category. We've divided this up into eight one-week periods. In less than 60 days, you can be out of the country with the doucments you need to obtain residency in your new home and some money available for a new start. Go to these websites to begin researching destinations: Begin sorting your personal items into four categories: Act Now There it is from start to finish. Is it a lot of work? Yes. Would it be a good idea to have someone to help on the other end who can give you specific guidance about your destination country's law and requirements? I wish we had had someone like that. Are there some risks along the way? Of course, and most of them are because the time is now so short. But compare those risks to the consequences of doing nothing in the face of this growing threat. You can be sure that the ruthless people currently in power in the U. S. have plans for what they will be doing over the next 60 days. You need to have your own. If you're ready to jump out of the pot before you're cooked, do two things: view the Flash video " Shelter from the Storm" (a 4-5 minute download with DSL) and read "Why Croatia?" 
January 30, 1933 Hitler is appointed Chancellor. Nazis hold 3 of 11 cabinet posts. Goebbels writes that the "New Reich" is born January 31 The Reichstag is dissolved and new elections are set for March 5. February 22 Goering establishes an "auxillary" police force of 22,000 Nazi thugs and raids Communist Party headquarters. He seizes the membership list and begins to arrest them all. February 27 The Reichstag burns under mysterious circumstances. February 28 The Reichstag Decree is signed providing that: March 5 The Nazis receive only 44% of the vote but declare victory. Nazi thugs enter government offices and "arrest" non-Nazi office-holders. Thousands are picked up, and old army barracks and abandoned factories are used as temporary "prisons." March 21 After making a show of humility by bowing to old president von Hindenburg earlier in the day, Hitler signs a decree to create "special courts" to try political offenders. These courts deprive defendants of a jury trial and right to counsel. March 23 The new Reichstag convenes in an opera house and considers its first order of business: an "enabling act" that makes Hitler dictator.
Week 1 1) If you don't have a passport, apply for one immediately and pay for the expedited process. 2) Apply for new copies of birth certificates for everyone who is going. 3) 4) If you own a home, find an auctioneer with experience selling real estate who is able to set an auction date for your house, vehicles and personal goods within 30 days (it CAN be done), and tell them you want to close on the real estate within 30 days of the sale (it CAN be done). Collect all important documents: your mortgage, title insurance, termite inspections, property tax receipts, etc. 5)
Week 2 1) Narrow your destination list to four or five countries and research these in more depth. Purchase and check out some books on these countries. 2) Obtain official copies of criminal reports, transcripts, diplomas, certifications. 3) Decide what to do about pets. If you're considering moving them, go here to begin your research. 4) Get physicals for everyone who's going and have them notarized. Week 3 1) Take this week off from work. 2) Choose a destination. If you can afford it, make reservations to travel there by Week "6". If that country's primary language is unfamiliar to you, get a phrase book and begin learning a few "basics". Begin to narrow your focus to one or two areas/cities within your destination country. 3) Now that you know your destination, get apostilles for all your documents. (If you're trying to limit your traceability, this will require some special care.) 4) Get a mail drop within an hour's driving distance of your current home. 5) Consider converting stocks, 401(k)s, bonds, etc. to cash and begin the process now. 6) Complete your sorting process and do the following:
Week 4 1) Do what you can to assist your auctioneer to publicize your sale that should be taking place at the end of this week. 2) If you can't make a visit to your destination country prior to leaving the country, consider starting a bank account through the Internet (with care). 3) Catch up on what you didn't get completed last week. Week 5 1) Do sale follow-up: be there for people to pick up items they bought; property inspections; foul-ups. 2) If you have established a bank account abroad, transfer enough money to take care of expenses for 3 months. 3) Review all the documents with apostilles and check them against the entry requirements for your destination country, preferably using that country's own information and not the U. S. Embassy for that country. 4) Make reservations for your final departure for a day a few days AFTER the closing date for your real estate. 5) Send your change of address cards to the necessary parties. If you have someone you trust, use the mail drop as your forwarding address and let them pick up the mail and forward it to you once you're gone. Week 6 1) If you've arranged to make a pre-departure visit to your destination country, go now with enough cash on your person to cover 3 months expenses. If this is more than $10,000 per person traveling, report it to U. S. Customs using Fincen Form 105. Make sure someone responsible stays behind to handle any matters related to the sale, and give them an adequate power of attorney. 2) While you're in your new country:
Week 7 1) Consider transferring the bulk of your assets abroad at this point. Otherwise, give someone you trust a power of attorney to transfer money after you leave. Or prepare to transfer all your assets in cash on your person when you leave. Worst option: wait until you arrive abroad to instruct your U. S. bank to transfer money. You can expect it to be held up, perhaps indefinitely. 2) Be around for the pickup of the goods you plan to move. Again: instruct the movers to keep the items in storage in the U. S. until you instruct them to put them on the boat. 3) Push the closing along. Call and stay on top of everyone involved to make sure everything is completed by the closing date. Week 8 1) Close on your property. Either move the proceeds as cash on your person or wire them and hope your bank doesn't hold it up because of the Bank Secrecy Act and Patriot Act. 2) If you're taking more than $10,000 per person in cash, declare it using FinCen 105. 3) Wave good-bye as you board the plane.
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Formatting and bad URL in 60 days article
The link to transitionsabroad.com in your article does not work. There is bad HTML formatting in the article, there is a string of letters appearing as a narrow column of one or two letters down much of the right hand side of the article. Ronald D. Edge http://keepamericafree.com by RDEdge (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 6 comments) on Sunday, Oct 1, 2006 at 7:48:29 AM  (0+)
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transitionsabroad.com site not responding
Well, which day are we on? The link in the article to www.transitionsabroad.com is not just bad, that site simply does not exist at the moment. It is registered, I did a whois lookup, and google knows it existed in the past, but it is nowhere to be found at the moment. Trying to tracert the domain name fails, which suggests there is not even a DNS entry for it in the root servers at the moment. What day did you say we were on already? by RDEdge (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 6 comments) on Sunday, Oct 1, 2006 at 7:53:52 AM (0+)
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http://www.transitionsabroad.com/
not only exists, it loads after being copied and pasted into firefox. It is very slow in loading. But hey, ya'all wouldn't like it abroad any hoo. http://www.transitionsabroad.com/ by Tony Forest (7 articles, 18 quicklinks, 166 diaries, 1429 comments [5 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Oct 1, 2006 at 7:59:56 AM (0+)
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Reply: Responding now, but incredibly slow
It is responding from here now, but is in fact incredibly slow. Wherever it is hosted can't be very robust. It was not even responding to tracert of the domain name 20 minutes ago, and clicking on the link the article or entering URL in address of browser returned a 404 error. by RDEdge (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 6 comments) on Sunday, Oct 1, 2006 at 8:21:30 AM (0+)
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Reply: Thanks for the heads up...
...about the formatting. I think I've fixed it. I've used the Transitions Abroad site on a regular basis. I found it slow too. It does have a very helpful article on moving pets abroad, though. by Ezekiel (16 articles, 12 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 17 comments) on Sunday, Oct 1, 2006 at 10:06:56 AM (0+)
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Dont let the door hit your ass on the way out
Suppose, for arguments sake, those folks who disliked the tyrannies of George (the King of England one) decided to split to Aruba or somesuch place.... I was born here and I will die here (most likely unless on vacation somewhere). I will not allow anyone to chase me fromt he nation I love, I will shake my head at those who propose such cowardice as well...... This is me shaking my head at the author of this crap..... by ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments) on Sunday, Oct 1, 2006 at 8:45:41 AM (0+)
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Reply: "cowardice" ?
We're free to leave. Yet. How long will it be that way ? Look back on the recent judicial decision to outlaw sports boating on major US waterways. A lot of people are scared s**tless. If they wanna join us here in Europe, we'll help them make the trip, as best we can. Most can't or won't make the trip. Those who wish to are not cowards. Oh no. It takes a hell of a lot of courage to pick up and leave a country. More than it takes to stay. by Tony Forest (7 articles, 18 quicklinks, 166 diaries, 1429 comments [5 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Oct 1, 2006 at 9:08:29 AM (0+)
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Reply: It takes no courage to flee from your responsibilities
This nation nurtured you, fed and clothed you, educated you and kept you free and comfortable. This nation is filled with your fellow Americans to whom you owe some responsiblity as well. This is my country and I will die fighting those who would usurp it and alter its inherent goodness. Those who would desert the field leave it to the villains, I will never, ever do such a thing nor do I have sympathy for or understanding of those who would. by ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments) on Sunday, Oct 1, 2006 at 3:50:15 PM (0+)
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Reply: Want to shake your head at Albert Einstein too?
by Ezekiel (16 articles, 12 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 17 comments) on Sunday, Oct 1, 2006 at 9:43:03 AM (0+)
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Reply: Should I stay or should I go?
There were millions of survivors of the Nazi holocaust. They are the people who picked up and left. I don't want to leave, but there may come a time... I want to know all my options and I don't want to wait to start thinking about them... so we have several writers talking about American EMigration. by Rob Kall (952 articles, 4177 quicklinks, 374 diaries, 2087 comments [45 recommended, 3 rejected]) on Sunday, Oct 1, 2006 at 12:02:00 PM (0+)
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Reply: I cannot and will not condone such action
This is not the beginning of Nazi Germany, it is not the thirties, nor is Bush Hitler. You folks are failing in your duties as citizens and it shames me. Those who choose to leave, go, we who remain will be more efficient and capable without you in the way. I have four children and my fourteenth grandkid is on the way. I have every reason to work diligently to rescue this nation from the apathy that has enabled Bush to wreak such havoc upon the world. I doubt that any of those who speak about fleeing actually deserve to live in a democracy anyway, it requires actual participation to thrive. When the Supreme Court overturns this attack upon Habeus Corpus you will all look damn foolish. Even if they dont you already look rather silly to me. I am reminded of the courageous jews who fought Hitler to the last man woman and child in the Warsaw ghetto, they tied up divisions sorely needed at the Russian front and contributed to the death of Naziism. Imagine if all those jews who fled Germany had remained, imagine if no jew went willingly to the concentration camps, imagine the logistical nightmare of six million resisting. I hasten to add that this scenario is certainly not going to happen here simply because we are an armed populace, despite all the efforts to disarm us, and because we understand, at least some of us understand, our duties and responsibilities. by ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments) on Sunday, Oct 1, 2006 at 7:37:17 PM (0+)
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Reply: Not all of us are free
to leave.
by Tony Forest (7 articles, 18 quicklinks, 166 diaries, 1429 comments [5 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Oct 2, 2006 at 3:56:16 AM (0+)
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Reply: my apologies, Ardee...
I misspelled your name. Sorry mate ! by Tony Forest (7 articles, 18 quicklinks, 166 diaries, 1429 comments [5 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Oct 2, 2006 at 3:57:48 AM (0+)
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Reply: No apology necesary, I appreciate the civility
of your differing opinion. I remain, however, adamant in my belief that this is not the time to desert our nation. You who are already abroad, for whatever reason, are still a part of the U to be certain, but those who are now advocating wholesale desertions are my target. It would not surprise me one little bit to find that they are neocons seeking to reduce the power of the left. Regardless of your reasons for living abroad you are removed from these shores, cannot march in the streets of New York or Atlanta, and are not represented by a Senator or Congressperson to whom you can email and letter with opinion. I do not accept your opinion that I fail to grasp the history of Nazi Germany, history being one of my hobbies. My comment that six million resisting, many more counting those who fled would have made the Holocaust a logistical impossibility stands and the Warsaw ghetto events prove that point rather clearly. I agree that you may continue the fight from abroad but believe that you are less safe there and your power to effect change here is lessened as well. by ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments) on Monday, Oct 2, 2006 at 7:26:45 AM (0+)
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Waking up in the morning
Feeling like you don't belong; not confident you ever will again; recognizing your responsibility for the future of those you brought into the world...I ain't a coward. In fact, I'm pretty brave. And I'm not ashamed. I'm feeling rather proud that I took such a big step for those I'm responsible for, as well as for my own happiness. Now I can wake up in the morning...and smile. by Rachel Gladstone-Gelman (36 articles, 0 quicklinks, 8 diaries, 29 comments) on Sunday, Oct 1, 2006 at 2:45:09 PM (0+)
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I am violatiing
my own promise and put a comment here because I am the one who was a refugee once before. And although I do not consider that Ezekiel had chosen a good place to live and, neither do I think people from the US will be safe abroad if by any chance they will have to relinqiusih their citizenship ( I know, I was in the refugee settlements), I still would say that our children are in danger. And if they are it is our dutt to them to deliver them out. All other considerations just do not apply. So whoever has a child should consider the options given as any reasonable person will. by Mark Sashine (72 articles, 19 quicklinks, 269 diaries, 4101 comments [131 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Oct 1, 2006 at 4:15:04 PM (0+)
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If Bush nukes Iran,
no refugee from the US will be welcomed or be able to feel safe anywhere in the Middle East or Europe. Due to Israel's occupation of Palestine and invasion of Lebanon, and Bush's invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the anger towards the US and Israel is already palpable in much of the world. I certainly wouldn't want to be in Croatia when Bush nukes Tehran. by Mark E. Smith (21 articles, 30 quicklinks, 100 diaries, 1325 comments) on Monday, Oct 2, 2006 at 4:54:03 AM (0+)
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Reply: Good point
Things have changed for sure. Americans have a new national identity nowadays. Thanks guys ! Looking back on the fallout after Tchernobyl, I wouldn't wanna be ANYWHERE on this planet once the US nukes Tehran ! Hell, even the DU used in the ME by the US was measured in parts of Europe. And the world's round...HELLO ! As Ben Marble, M.D would say....EARTH TO the US, EARTH TO the US, cut the sh*t, okay already ! As Americans, we're no longer welcome in many places. That has become obvious. What a strange feeling. by Tony Forest (7 articles, 18 quicklinks, 166 diaries, 1429 comments [5 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Oct 2, 2006 at 5:30:05 AM (0+)
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I'm Staying
I served 21 years in the Army. I'm 55 now. If I die tomorrow I've led a good life. I've given this thing a lot of thought. I saw it coming four years ago. If the country wakes up and re-establishes it's adherence to the Constitution, I'll be the happiest guy on Earth. If they try to take my rights from me, then I guess I'll die defending our Constitution. I don't blame anyone with children for leaving, but since it's just me and my wife...I have too much invested in this country. I love it and just pray for reason. by Timothy V. Gatto (348 articles, 177 quicklinks, 38 diaries, 574 comments) on Monday, Oct 2, 2006 at 7:53:10 AM (0+)
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One more thing
Leaving your country for good is 'Death for a new life' per Goethe. Respectfully, native- born Americans never were is such position and even now the path Ezekiel shows is not a real emigration (no offense). It is a change of a place of living. It is normal. Emigration, leaving for good is anything but normal. You die. I am not kidding. Had anyone of those who write here ever experienced a situation when someone else decides if they live or die? Had anyone ever been helpless against something; no papers, no country, no work, no life, no place, no money, no face? Had anyone ever been there? I was there. I was a refugee postman and people committed suicide on my watch, good people, many of them much better than Bush and all his cronies together. They literally died. I died spiritually and then had to revive, painfully, for many years. That is why I understand those immigrants from other countries, those, whose eyes I see every day on TV and I see my eyes when I was a vagrant on the streets of Rome and if I was hit by a car, nobody would bother to investigate. That's emigration. Thus having said all that I again would like to say that not only little children but the young adults are in terrible danger. And we, the parents have to tell them that and help them and if they decide to go, we have to help them too. To relocate. To change the place of living. Hopefully, not to emigrate. So they would be able to return. I cannot. by Mark Sashine (72 articles, 19 quicklinks, 269 diaries, 4101 comments [131 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Oct 2, 2006 at 10:10:31 AM (0+)
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Reply: ICE = Gestapo
The round-up of illegal immigrants in the U.S. has begun. More than 24,000 so far. Some factories are empty, some crops are going unpicked, and some towns have already turned into ghost towns. A Homeland Security division called Immigration, Customs, and something starting with an "E" (ICE), knocks down the door early in the morning and hauls everybody off. But history repeats in every horrifying detail, and many Americans are thinking that since they're not illegal immigrants, they don't have to speak up. It is always the most vulnerable groups first, the ones most easily scapegoated because few people identify with them. And by the time they get around to us, there will be nobody left to speak up. Funny, on a mailing list I subscribe to, some people are saying that 6 million Jews weren't killed in Germany, that the Nazis only killed gypsies, Poles and Russians. So how could 6 million have resisted if there were no 6 million? These just happen to be the same people who say that they are anti-Zionist but not anti-Semitic, and that AIPAC controls US foreign policy. Did you know that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the gang would never have invaded a Moslem country with oil if not for Israel? I'm not sure if the theory maintains that they would have invaded a Christian country without oil instead, or that they're such nice guys that they wouldn't have invaded anyone, but in any event AIPAC made them do it. So while I don't want Bush to nuke Iran, I agree with Hugo Chavez that Bush is the Devil, and I think that the state of Israel has been fascist towards the Palestinians and Lebanon, I'm actually beginning to understand the kneejerk reaction of many Jews who equate criticism of Zionism with anti-Semitism. They're wrong, but having lost 6 million the last time we were scapegoated, it is understandable that we'd flinch at being scapegoated again. by Mark E. Smith (21 articles, 30 quicklinks, 100 diaries, 1325 comments) on Monday, Oct 2, 2006 at 12:24:18 PM (0+)
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