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Perhaps these students seek the same sort of notoriety that Henry David Thoreau obtained after refusing to pay his taxes. Instead of attempting to change the political system from within society, he effectively gave up his citizenship in a protest against that system. Ironically, the piece he wrote during his subsequent term in jail, "Civil Disobedience," quotes the well known "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's" passage of the New Testament. What is most peculiar here is that the principals of the HRAC have not given up their "citizenship" in the HRRC, though they refuse to render unto...
...Cambridge Organization of Portuguese Americans (COPA) is a social service group which offers classes in English as a second language and citizenship application preparation...
...denaturalization and extradition are deemed to be civil and not criminal [cases]," says Georgetown University Law School professor Sherman Lewis Cohn. "There are some people who argue that taking away a person's citizenship is close to criminal...
Federal Court rules that Demjanjuk lied on his immigration papers and says Demjanjuk was Ivart the Terrible. His citizenship is revoked...
During the four-week trial, Demjanjuk acknowledged lying on his immigration papers, saying that he was in the Red Army and had been taken prisoner by the Nazis. The alibi seemed shaky to the court, and he was stripped of his citizenship...