It's war, and young American illegally men head to Canada. From Canada they are off to join the RAF and fight the Nazis in the
Battle of Britain.
The U.S. had passed a series of laws during the 1930’s to keep the country from getting embroiled in the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia.... The Neutrality Acts were structured to keep the U.S. out of a possible European war. This, in effect, made it illegal for recruiters to hire Americans to go to Canada or England for enlistment purposes, or for U.S. citizens to volunteer for military service in England.... Violators of the U. S. Neutrality Acts could face stiff penalties of up to $20,000 in fines, ten years in prison, and loss of citizenship. Some F.B.I. agents were assigned to track down these evildoers, but it doesn’t appear they had much success. They became the
Eagle Squadrons. A similar group, the
Flying Tigers, headed to China to fight the Japanese, this one apparently with some clandestine US government sponsorship, despite the neutrality laws. Brave, effective and colorful as described in this
interview.
posted by caddis
on Dec 9, 2006 -
16 comments
Newsfilter: The US House Committee on the Judiciary today
approved the Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act (
HR 5417) in a vote of 20-12, helping to improve the provision of equal network service regardless of who receives it, without added surcharges, along with other antitrust measures. Carriers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon suggest no problem exists that requires this legislative solution, despite
pushing their lobbyists hard to get Congress to enact opposing laws, and suggesting that prioritizing network traffic is required to develop newer products, such as
high-definition video. Meanwhile, the FCC continues to encourage
mergers while prices for telecommunications products continue to rise at rates
manyfold higher than inflation, despite price gouging provisions enacted in the
Telecommunications Act of 1996.
posted by Mr. Six
on May 26, 2006 -
13 comments
Wikinews: "Wikinews is a proposed project with the goal to collaboratively report and summarize news on all subjects from a neutral point of view." It looks like
MoJo lives, kind of, but we weren't the ones who ended up building it. Bummer.
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posted by stavrosthewonderchicken
on Oct 25, 2004 -
4 comments
In spite of his promise that human rights would take precedence over concerns of state sovereignty,
Kofi Annan's philosophy of neutrality and nonviolence in the face of genocide and dictators, costs over 7,000 lives at Srebrenica, and 800,000 in Rwanda alone.
posted by semmi
on Oct 3, 2002 -
18 comments
