The stateless person is innocent of any crime. His problem is not what he did but who he is.
The persecution of the innocent stateless person by totalitarian regimes has an eerie similarity to the persecution of the innocent foreign citizen by terrorist regimes.
The willingness to punish the innocent comes from the placing of authority as superior to the prerogatives and privileges of legitimacy.
Terrorism is the poor man's totalitarianism.
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