Who the hell cares ?
One cannot be a defector if one is allowed to leave --
LEGALLY. This mean there is no difference between a defector and an immigrant other than the legal status of the departure. It also means that as far as the defector and the immigrant is concerned, the opinion of the origin state is
IRRELEVANT. For the immigrant, so what if he is allowed to return ? He left because he felt the country of his birth no longer serves him well enough. So why should he care what that government thinks of him ?
Mark Twain said: 'Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.'
If any government does not allow legal immigration at any time by anyone, that mean anyone who want to leave, or even thinking of leaving, is a defector. That government does not deserve loyalty and allegiance.
But if we go by
YOUR line of thinking, at least the defector have a good cause for leaving -- political persecution. Whereas the immigrant have none, and that make the immigrant the more shameful one.
Wrong...I have been allowed to return to Viet Nam and done so then left -- without repercussions. When I left, it was legally because the government of South Viet Nam was still in force and did allowed legal departure of the country. Your stupidity here is thinking the current communist government somehow have retroactive authority over me.
I never railed against immigrants and you are obviously confused about my intentions so far. The one who still have the butt hurt here is
YOU considering how you tried to portray me as a 'defector' but ended up looking stupid without knowing the difference between a defector and an immigrant. If I am a 'defector', then I am in good company with the Cubans who risked lives to get to America, with the East Germans who were killed, by East German guards, when they tried to escape communism, with the many athletes who fled communism when they had the chance at the Olympics.
A Brief History of Olympic Defectors | Mental Floss
You ain't got the balls to call Provaznikova a 'defector'. She got more courage in her littlest toe than you have in your entire body.
Get off this thread, kid. You are out of your league.