From: KH.Ranitzsch@t... (K.H.Ranitzsch)
Date: 27 Sep 2000 08:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Nations ? was: Pirates and Privateers
> > That is a very, very good question. Ummm... it's a nation to Take your pick: - an enemy occupied zone (East Germany to West Germans, even after the East German government was nominally established) - a 'strange object' ['Gebilde'] (ditto) - a breakaway province (China about Taiwan) - a figment of imperialist machinations (China about an independent Tibet) - a capitalist puppet regime (North Korea about South Korea) - the result of Western-Zionist conspiracy (Arabs about Israel) - a terrorist territory (Russia about Chechnya) etc.etc. Greetings Karl Heinz