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Old 03-24-2006, 12:22 AM   #97
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Originally Posted by The Shadoe
We are not an empire. I beg of you to find any trace of colonies.
Um, Puerto Rico. Since the Supreme Court just denied Puerto Ricans the right to vote in U.S. presidential elections, what are they - other than a colony? How is a "territory" with no citizenship rights for its denizens anything other than a colony?

Get out of the books for a moment. Empires of the 21st century are not the Empires of antiquity. The United States is an imperial power by every measure of modern sense.
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