[andyt]

They probably don't want you renouncing your citizenship if you are a threat so that they can come after you, extradition, etc.

Americans are renouncing in droves because of the new tax law - finding out just how hard it is to break up with Uncle Sam.

[andyt]

Delwin Delwin:

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

Yes, I believe leaving the country to join in terrorist activites is a crime, but under a newer law passed by the Conservatives (with LIberal support; NDP opposed).

Yes Bill S-7 Passed on April 24, 2013.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/25 ... -hearings/

This is the section dealing with leaving to commit terrorist acts:

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Section 6:

83.181 Everyone who leaves or attempts to leave Canada, or goes or attempts to go on board a conveyance with the intent to leave Canada, for the purpose of committing an act or omission outside Canada that, if committed in Canada, would be an offence under subsection 83.18(1) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years.

http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications ... &File=30#2

Now they have to prove they left Canada for that purpose. May not be so easy.

[N_Fiddledog]

Too bad we lost Ted Cruz. He's working on a worthy idea for America now.

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This should prove interesting, if only from the legal perspective. Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced that he will be filing the Expatriate Terrorist Act next week. The legislation, if passed, is intended to strip the citizenship of any Americans who take up arms to fight with ISIS.

“Americans who choose to go to Syria or Iraq to fight with vicious ISIS terrorists are party to a terrorist organization committing horrific acts of violence, including beheading innocent American journalists who they have captured,” Cruz said in a statement.

“There can be no clearer renunciation of their citizenship in the United States, and we need to do everything we can to preempt any attempt on their part to re-enter our country and carry out further attacks on American civilians.”

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) gave support to a similar proposal in a Time magazine op-ed Thursday.

Cruz’s bill would apply to those providing support only to foreign terrorist groups and would result in that person technically renouncing his citizenship “with the intent of supplanting his U.S. citizenship with loyalty to a terrorist organization.”

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/09/07/t ... -fighters/

[andyt]

But then he's doing it just for points.