this anti-war guy renounced all citizenship in 1948, after growing up in a privileged American family, his brother being killed in WW2 and himself a WW2 bomber pilot. feeling grief over what he had done, he believed in eradicating conflict by eradicating borders. “We, the people, want the peace which only a world government can give,” he proclaimed at the United Nations General Assembly in Paris. “The sovereign states you represent divide us and lead us to the abyss of total war.” Last year, he had a world passport delivered to Mr. Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Just weeks before he died, Mr. Davis had a world passport sent, via Russian authorities, to Mr. Snowden, the fugitive former national security contractor accused of violating espionage laws, whose United States passport was revoked in June.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:06:45 +0000
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