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#238536 - 21/10/2004 13:53 David Soul becomes British
tahir pooh-bah Registered: 27/02/2004 Posts: 1900 Loc: London	David Soul: My home is where my art is When David Soul was growing up on the prairies of America's Midwest, he never imagined that, aged 61, he'd be sitting in a grey council office, pledging his allegiance to the Queen of England. Here, he explains how it happened... http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=573855
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#238537 - 21/10/2004 14:04 Re: David Soul becomes British [Re: tahir]
Daria carpal tunnel Registered: 24/01/2002 Posts: 3937 Loc: Providence, RI	I remember in the 80s when he stood in solidarity with protestors here as steel mills were closing and lots of people were being laid off. By and large it didn't help; The steel mills I remember from my earlier years now lay fallow or have been leveled for shopping, office parks, and even a very small amount of industrial redevelopment (there's a gypsum plant on part of the mill site in Aliquippa)
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#238538 - 24/10/2004 20:02 Re: David Soul becomes British [Re: tahir]
adavidw addict Registered: 10/11/2000 Posts: 497 Loc: Utah, USA	Quote: British citizenship does not mean that I am cutting my ties with America. My children and my ageing parents still live in the States, so I'll be visiting them, and I will be voting in the US presidential election next month... Um, isn't there some idea that once you aren't a US citizen anymore, you shouldn't be allowed to vote in US elections? Don't we check for that kind of thing? Yeah, I know we probably don't, but still, hasn't anyone told David Soul? _________________________ -Aaron
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#238539 - 24/10/2004 21:15 Re: David Soul becomes British [Re: adavidw]
webroach old hand Registered: 23/07/2003 Posts: 869 Loc: Colorado	Quote: Quote: British citizenship does not mean that I am cutting my ties with America. My children and my ageing parents still live in the States, so I'll be visiting them, and I will be voting in the US presidential election next month... Um, isn't there some idea that once you aren't a US citizen anymore, you shouldn't be allowed to vote in US elections?... I think he may be doing dual citizenship? _________________________ Dave
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#238540 - 24/10/2004 21:33 Re: David Soul becomes British [Re: webroach]
wfaulk carpal tunnel Registered: 25/12/2000 Posts: 16706 Loc: Raleigh, NC US	8 USC § 1481 states that you may lose your citizenship for any of these reasons: becoming a naturalized citizen of another country, or declaring allegiance to another country, after reaching age 18 serving as an officer in a foreign country's military service, or serving in the armed forces of a country which is engaged in hostilities against the US working for a foreign government (e.g., in political office or as a civil servant) formally renouncing one's US citizenship before duly authorized US officials committing treason against, or attempting or conspiring to overthrow the government of, the US It used to be that doing any of those things automatically lost you your citizenship, but the State Department changed its tune in 1990 so that you have to tell the State Department that you intended to lose your US citizenship. Actually, before that, in 1986, Congress changed its tune enough to allow the notion that you might not want to relinquish your citizenship, but it wasn't taken for granted by the State Department until 1990. This means that dual citizenship is now legal in the US, and I'm sure that's what Mr. Soul has done. _________________________ Bitt Faulk
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