“When your government starts arbitrarily seizing skyscrapers, the time to start thinking about and devising an internationalization strategy was yesterday. If you have not already started, I’d suggest that it is high time to get going. This goes double for libertarians and anyone else who could one day become the government’s next enemy du jour. All the government has to do is say the magic T-word, and poof: your rights, your assets, and even your life can be taken from you in an instant, without due process, and the vast majority of people will approve of it.”
http://www.internationalman.com/78-global-perspectives/1008-just-say-the-magic-word
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