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If the people of the land accept us and are in the process of forming a true democracy, we can help with ideas. We will have to realize, however, that the ideas that are ultimately realized are the ideas that they, the people who have always been there or have at least been there longer than we have, are the ideas that should rightly take hold. We can only hope that they allow open and mature debate and accept some of our ideas. In other words, we may have a chance to do it right this time.

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One last thought on military knowledge. Our knowledge of military defense will be necessary only because I fear that the nation we leave behind will attempt to invade where ever it is we go. We can only hope that any effort we put into a military defense will be for just that, defense. Idealistically, the nation we leave behind will leave us alone. However, if that is the kind of nation we leave behind, we'd probably not be leaving it in the first place.

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What I've written in this short article is simplistic. I realize, however, that whichever way it would work would be much more complicated that I've made it seem.

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Just the same, we are not welcomed here. We've never been welcomed here. Let's plan to leave this place whose government is nothing more and nothing less than a conglomerate of corporate greed heads. We will never defeat them. However, if we emigrate, they will ultimately be defeated and I submit their defeat will be at their own hands.

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