Thread: Bans on Travel
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Old 08-15-2003, 09:50 AM
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Default Re: Bans on Travel

"When I go to that place, I am now subject to their laws, not the US'. The US can't tell me I cannot go to Amsterdam and smoke weed, because weed is illegal in the US."

You will really hate this. It is my understanding that if you smoke a Cuban cigar in London, not that any American citizen would ever even consider that [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img], that you are in violation of the Trading With The Enemy Act. I'm not sure, and such trivial violations are never pursued, but the law reaches American citizens on foreign soil. I do think governments have the power to prohibit citizens from travel to SOME enemy countries. I don't think any government can totally prohibit international travel (at least morally/justifiably) but it is logical to ban travel to enemies during war. Whether any particular ban is reasonable is another story entirely.
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