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In the Tintin books, General Alcazar is frequently in exile, gathering forces to regain power in WikiPedia:San_Theodoros. In Herge's era, this involved buying second-hand planes from arms merchants and forging alliances with dubious types. Now all he'd need is a good net connection.

Exiled policitians from nations all over the world are successfully influencing politics back home: Charles Taylor, the Liberian leader; Slobodan Milosevic from jail in the Netherlands, and now exiled Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide could join their ranks.

One man's terrorist is another's freedom-fighter, so how we feel about this influence from exiles depends very much on our perception of their politics and their reasons for departure.

(Let's just hope Dubya doesn't hear of this practice... ;)

If even a physical exile is only partly effective in forcing a CommunityExile, how much less likely are our pitiful HardBans to succeed?

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040301/EXILES01//?query=haiti

Anyone care to write this one up? I'm fading out. -- SunirShah

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